chantel began stringing jewelry in 1997 with world-renowned jewelry designer and decorative artist Federico DeVera. She began designing her own jewelry in the winter of 2004. Integrating old and new stones, her designs are all one of a kind. chantel offers myriad designs with elements including antique pendants & intaglios with various shapes & sizes of pear, oval, round & rough-cut gems, semi-precious & precious stones such as: turquoise, natural & branch orange, red & blue coral, onyx, kyanite, apetite, old afghani glass beads, grey & black labrydorite, garnet, amethyst, tourmaline, sapphire, lapis, agate, artistic jasper and old wooden beads. Currently her collection has expanded includes old mahjong pieces & found objects. She can be commissioned to redesign old pendants & those random earring & jewelry parts that one leaves untouched in one's jewelry box. With the pieces she recreates a new necklace much in the spirit of a charm bracelet with additional complimentary stones composing an entirely new design.
