Miami - January 15, 2008

Clays of Our Lives

Cleo & Cat Jewelry

You’ve made your fair share of only-a-mother-could-love-it macaroni necklaces, Play-Doh bracelets, and paper clip earrings.

When it comes to being crafty, there’s a fine line between cute and clunky.

So leave the sculpting to Cleo & Cat. Colombian-born and South Florida-residing sisters Claudia and Catalina Pieschacon both scored the artistic gene and have culled their creative talents into an excellent collection of pendants and rings.

They mold each piece by hand, incorporating semiprecious stones, clay, silver, and gold into wearable art. Like a jade horn pendant of gold-painted polymer clay wrapped around a chunk of tooth-shaped jade or a silver crown ring topped with a piece of turquoise-and-blue-specked chrysoprase.

We’re not sure what that is, but we know it’s not pasta.

Available at Steam on Sunset, 5840 Sunset Drive, South Miami (305-669-9991); Bellissimo 2, 250 Worth Avenue, Palm Beach (561-655-5063). To see styles, go to cleoandcatjewels.com.