For all the things I have done for money the only money that had meaning came from selling my art. It set me on fire from an early age when me and my little sister made cards and sold them door to door during holidays. There were a few houses where the mother had a tender heart towards us and the memory of the coins dropping into my open palm lingers still. It cemented the thought that if I made it and someone bought it I was an artist just like my Mom & Dad. So it goes and so I landed at ETSY. Good match for me and over the years my customers have become my friends. I like to keep it simple so I am putting all my jewelry, home & garden designs and watercolors here on this page.

GEMSTONE JEWELRY

I fell in love with gemstones during a trip to Thailand in the mid 70's. A trip to the North brought me close to the Golden Triangle where I was introduced to the call of the Colored Gemstones: Rubies, Sapphires, Amethyst...to me they are filled with beautiful mysterious energy. I am sensitive to most metals used in jewelry so instead of having them set I just carried the gemstones in a little leather pouch. Decades pass and I wanted to wear my gemstones so I could look at them easier. I found a metal I could wear that was affordable for me to work with. It is Argentium Sterling Silver. I fell in love with its energy and the comfort in wearing it! I found I was sensitive to the copper in the alloy of most metals and Argentium Sterling replaces most of the copper with a mineral called Germanium. This makes it less tarnishable and easy to keep shinny with just a rub with a soft cloth after a soap and water bath. A Modern Metal made for the ages. Most of my jewelry is made with this metal but I also use Titanium, Niobium, and Gold Fill.

My favorite designs are: the Love Strong Gemstone & Leather Bracelet, Long Slim Sexy Woven Metal Earrings, and Mermaids Lucky Stone Necklace.

COPPER DESIGNS by kgkiser 2012

This year I have been consumed with Gemstones and Copper. A reoccurring theme of mine are Dragonflies & Hands. Years past I have made stained glass & copper mobiles and ornaments for the home & garden. I combined my beloved colored gemstones with copper in the familiar theme of the Hand & Dragonfly in my kgkiser 2012 designs.

My tinkering has blossomed into 'other stuff' like candle sconces, wreaths, wind chimes, and woven copper baskets for mineral specimens so they can hang from a cup hook in front of a sunny window!

WATERCOLORS

Paintings I do and sometimes I offer the originals just to make room for the new ones needing to be born:) I make the frames too as I am a manic maker of mosaic.

BIRD HOUSES & HYPERTUFA POTS

I make garden objects out of stone, wood, glass & cement. Unique objects and, like all of my objects, they are One Of A Kind :))