Milestones

2025 was a year of milestones, new designs, meaningful custom work and more connection than I could have imagined. CMD turned twenty, we celebrated together in Asbury Park, brought The Ring Bar to both coasts, created new collections and gave new life to some extraordinary heirlooms. Looking back, [...]

Two decades into CMD, I wanted to create something that looked back without getting stuck in the past. The Big Two-Oh Collection brings together clean geometry, mixed metals, and a few nods to designs and ideas that have shaped my work over the years. It’s a celebration of where CMD began, how much [...]

Twenty years after CMD began at a desk in my tiny San Francisco apartment, we gathered in Asbury Park with family, friends, clients, and members of this incredible community to celebrate everything that came next. There were champagne toasts, stacks of jewelry, surprise visitors, happy tears, [...]

Friends, I’ve been looking through old photos and reminiscing about CMD in the early days. That first leap of faith, saying yes to a tiny studio I wasn’t sure I could afford, taught me something I’ve carried with me ever since: little risks open big doors. What started as a $400-a-month cubicle at Secession Art & Design [...]

Twenty years ago, I had no roadmap, no investors, and no idea where this path would take me. What I did have was a hammer, a torch, a lot of curiosity, and an unstoppable urge to create. Two decades later, CMD has grown from my tiny Hayes Valley apartment into a small-but-mighty jewelry business built by [...]

As 2024 draws to a close, all of us here at CMD are filled with gratitude and pride for the milestones we've achieved and the community we're growing. This year has been a journey of creativity, connection, and growth, and we owe it all to you. Thank you for all your support now and always. We poured our hearts into [...]

2023 became the year I started questioning an idea that had driven much of my career: that doing more was always the answer. We focused on smaller launches, gave product development more room to breathe, introduced designs like Spread the Love, Storybook, the 14k Rogue Ring, Infinity Necklace and Zodiac [...]

Looking back, 2022 was the year I really began to understand what putting down roots in Asbury Park could mean. We launched The Hand Project with friends and community members, brought some of my earliest designs back to life through Full Circle, welcomed Aryana back to the CMD team and built [...]

Asbury Park has always felt like a natural home for CMD. It's creative, unconventional and full of people who aren't particularly interested in looking exactly like everyone else. In celebration of Pride, I'm looking at why individuality and inclusivity have always been part of this brand, and how our Bond Street Shop [...]

After nearly 16 years of building CMD in San Francisco, I packed up the West Coast chapter and came home to New Jersey. What started as a light-filled studio on Bond Street has grown into the CMD home I couldn't quite imagine yet, complete with appointments, Open Hours, Pop-Ups and a creative community I [...]

Nearly 20 years after arriving in San Francisco with a suitcase and a few hundred bucks, I made the incredibly difficult decision to close my Valencia Street shop and come home to New Jersey. What I didn't know then was how much that move would shape the next chapter of CMD. Six years later, I'm looking back at [...]

San Francisco was where I found myself, built CMD and created a life I loved. Nearly 20 years after arriving with a suitcase and a few hundred dollars to my name, saying goodbye was harder than I could have imagined. All these years later, a little piece of my heart still lives in my City By the Bay. I still remember [...]

When I originally wrote this post in June 2020, we'd just wrapped up the strangest Sample Sale we'd ever held. What had always been one of our biggest in-person events suddenly had to happen almost entirely through a screen. We had no idea then that those virtual appointments would change the way I [...]

In April 2020, I suddenly found myself FaceTiming with CMD customers from Sacramento to Michigan to France. What started as a way to keep our Virtual Sample Sale going during lockdown became a completely new way of connecting with people. Looking back now, it’s funny how something that felt so [...]

As I reflect on these 10 years of glory, pain, joy, tears, laughter, friendships and oh-so much more, I feel an enormous amount of gratitude and nostalgia. I'm overflowing with happiness and pride, and though I am just a speck in the universe of creators, I live for this passion. Truly, creativity keeps me sane. [...]