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Jessica is a retired computer specialist who, since retiring four years ago, has renewed her interest in making jewelry.  Her dad, a retired chemist, was a rock hound when Jessica was growing up.  She traveled with him on field trips and numerous visits to rock shops all over south Texas.  Her dad taught her lapidary techniques and Jessica began making her own cabochons, working mostly with opals, when she was in high school. 

 Since retiring, Jessica has taken metal working/jewelry making classes at the University of New Mexico.  She is also a glass artist and makes fused glass pendants.  Using her lapidary skills, she works her fused glass into unique shapes and then mounts them in sterling silver.  Some of her fused glass pieces have a cubic zirconium stone (CZ) fused into the piece.  This technique requires two firings of the glass—the first firing to make the initial glass piece which is then drilled with diamond drills to make a cone-shaped hole for the CZ; the glass piece is then fired again so the CZ is fused into the glass. 

 Besides making dichroic glass pendants, Jessica mounts various stone cabochons in sterling silver to be worn as bolos or pendants.  She also loves pearls and you will see them used frequently in her work. 

 Jessica is a full time resident of the Moreno Valley and lives with her husband, Ronnie, and her cat, Hobbs.
 

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