For tens of thousands of years, like actual tens of thousands, humans have been crafting jewelry, art, totems, artifacts, bowls, cigarette holders and everything that fits under its belly in homage to the one & only vertebrate that moves without a crack in its back. And this year, it’s our turn to kiss the hiss.

WINNER: DAISY SAN LUIS

A lover's eye fashioned in keshi pearl, yellow gold & black diamond to promise I only have eyes for you, snugly wrapped in a golden snake with white diamond eyes of its own. Rotate the eye to reveal the hidden hand engraved silver tablet 'my 🖤 + 👁️ til I die' inspired by antique Victorian rings, a secret for you & your true love. Handmade in solid 10k yellow gold, 14k yellow gold, and sterling silver. By Daisy San Luis

According to ancient extramissionism theory, looks can kill. Do you dare look into the eye of the danger noodle supreme? A hand carved snake skin signet framing a blue marquise star sapphire slit pupil within an ombré orange to peach sapphire to white diamond iris. See the world from a snake's eye view, but don't get too close. Handmade in solid patinated 10k yellow gold. By Fiat Lux

A den of hand carved hatchling skeleton snakes emerge from their pearl orphic eggs nested in a mushroom patch. Life comes from death comes from life in this dark nouveau ring. Handmade in solid 14k yellow gold, oxidized sterling silver, 23k gold leaf and cultured pearls. By Kimi Kaplowitz

A box chain ouroboros snakes its way around an Ethiopian emerald studded band, undulating and swirling, much like the improvisational and non-metric solos of Arabic & Turkish Taqsīm music. Handmade in recycled solid 14k yellow gold and oxidized sterling silver by Jalnar in her Philadelphia Studio. By Jalnar.

Pen a letter to your friends or enemies and seal it with a serpent to say beware. A twisting silver snake pendant like the 18th century Georgian fobs you'd wear on a watch chain, set with bloodstone & a hand engraved silver viper. By Ali Muni.

"I saw a serpent rise between..." A golden ouroboros snake knocker with black diamond eyes looped infiitely into a grotesquely ornate ring of golden white diamond flourishes & ruby quatrefoil flowers. Inspired by the poem "I Saw A Chapel" by William Blake & the hypocrisy of the church. Handmade in solid 14k yellow gold, sterling silver & fine silver. By Morgaine Faye.

Pssst... This snake has a secret. Gently press down on its diamond head and tail to pop open a hidden door & release it from its graphic silver frame and transform it into a necklace. Handmade in solid 18k yellow gold, oxidized sterling silver and tapered baguette & round brilliant white diamond accents. By DMD.

Departing from the traditional circular ouroboros, this snake, calcified in eternal contemplation, reminds us that life is never effortlessly straight forward, and neither is the flow of the serpent. An elegantly rugged snake to accompany you on this infinite path of the self. Handmade in solid 9ct yellow gold with black diamond eyes. By Alicia Hannah Naomi.

Clarity in life, death & rebirth. A matte golden snake winds its way through a handcarved skull to rest its head upon yours with an emerald star set third eye. Handmade in solid 14k yellow gold and horn. By Sacred Order.

You know what we got?! Foot stuff! Jibbitzy accessories for your feet. More specifically, your shoes. More specifically, your Crocs, you know, those little things that kids love to put all over their favorite toe-ventilated shoe?

WINNER: KIMI KAPLOWITZ

Where The Wild Things Are: Fungi, fawn guy, foot funguy. Explore the mossy forest world of an Oregoneon Croc, led by your excited tour guide. Cast in bronze from real psilocybe mushrooms collected on the Oregon coast, handcarved in sterling silver & set with inverted garnets and green cubic zirconia. By Kimi Kaplowitz.

A Widow's Foot: A fancy, spindly, evil spider crawling across a Croc from a cobweb heart into yours. Handmade in oxidized sterling silver with a 14k yellow gold bezel holding a marquise black diamond. Stare into its eight rose cut and inverted black diamond eyes. Dainty white diamond dew drops glimmer across the brass cobweb. By Fiat Lux.

The Yeehaw! Spur for the badass Croc-wearing cowgirl carrying on the tradition. Articulate and ready to pop onto that heel strap. Handmade and engraved in sterling silver by Ali Munn in her Vancouver Studio.

Kilroy Was Here On Your Foot: A creeper's mug peers over a miniature graffitied wall: "Kilroy wuz here". A symbol to those in the know, from graffiti artists to WW2 bombers and now an accessory to your shoes. Handmade in sterling silver by DMD.

Stigmata: An oxidized silver nail piercing your Croc, dripping blood where one would be nailed to a cross. No tetanus shot needed. A modern interpretation of Stigmata from the Catholic tradition. Handmade in sterling silver and red enamel by Shipwreck.

Apollo's Bolt: Myths tell of Apollo's arrows delivering plagues or good health while this arrow delivers bad ass versatility. A silver tromp d'oeil arrow jibbitz charm or brooch with a removable rose cut pear garnet bezel set blood drop charm and a hand engraved Fido dog wax seal stamp on the arrow tip. In sterling silver, garnets, & 14k yellow gold by Morgaine Faye

Brass Jaws: Brass teeth jibbitz for your Crocs that'll leave a biting impression with every roundhouse kick. Cast in solid bronze from a denture found in the desert in a pile of adult VHS, polished with a single tooth covered in white diamond pavé like all the best do. By EMBLM.

Pantera On Your Foot: Fierce, strong and badass. A panther roaring in profile to contrast everything a Croc is not. Handmade in oxidized sterling silver with 18k gold yellow teeth and an emerald eye by Sacred Order.

Laundry & Taxes: A singular googly eye for the most mundane of Crocs because to be human is to find meaning and joy in our existence, even while doing laundry & taxes together. A 4mm round rose cut diamond pupil jiggles under a quartz lens encased in 14k yellow gold. By Digby & Iona.

The 6th Annual Maker's Competition is all about Pope Joan, the legend of the 10th Century genderqueering, female 2 male presenting lady who ascended to the papalcy in medieval Europe, a righteous babe if ever there were.

WINNER: DMD

The Uterian Pyre, a funerary boat held in place by a ring-shank-as-uterus. Handmade in 18k gold, sterling, with a rose cut diamond to represent Pope Joan’s journey as Iones in life & Ioannes in death. By DMD.

The Ipso Facto. A late 9th Century coin signature not recorded by the Vatican, made into an heirloom for the man who, according to legend, woulda been Pope Joan’s baby daddy. By Ali Munn.

A mustard seed set under quartz framed by black diamonds & gold. It’s Jesus’ parable about the tiniest mustard seed growing into the biggest tree, but applied to the Catholic tradition’s only legend about a woman in power. By Shipwreck.

Omniscient Ioanna, a reliquary made from fractured native quartz opening to reveal a secret chamber with the eye of providence. Because in the eyes of a higher power, even if our mortal identities are splintered & uncertain, we are one & all the same. By Fiat Lux.

The Septimus Sapphire, a color change sapphire in 18k gold to represent the different ways that Pope Joan self-expressed. By Digby & Iona.

Nor Hell a Fury, our 5th Annual Maker’s Competition in honor of 14th Century French pirate Jeanne de Clisson, the real Godmother of Girlpower.

WINNER: ALI MUNN

A poison ring with a hidden ship/skull/message honoring the 14th century pirate and all around total badass woman Jeanne de Clisson. By Ali Munn.

A poison ring whose poison box, held between two lions, celebrates the color of the sea in its center green diamond, made in vintage 10k gold and intended for Le Blois, her husband’s cowardly murderer, her raison d’etre. By Shipwreck.

A clean diamond ring in 14k yellow gold, embedded into an elongated knife, a short, choppy little sword. With an oval grey diamond as center, a ring to recall both how Jeanne was widowed & how she’d exact her revenge. By Daisy San Luis.

A giant morganite tear, a symbol of the pain that both Jeanne & the French King would have to endure. Turned over, the ring reveals a secret weapon, a tiny dagger, because two decades of inflicting pain on the English Channel is a lot & one can never have too many tricks ups one’s rings. By Acanthus.

A quartz mirror in sterling silver & brass, a ring in the shape of a crown with ruby blood droplets pooling at the bottom & surrounded by death’s heads. By Mother of Gideon.

A stacking set in triptych, a bishop’s hand for de Blois, a set of three tiny skulls for Jeanne's three pirate ships & a lion savaging the sea, Jeanne herself. We imagine this to commemorate her time at sea, a clear nod to her past once she’d moved on. By DMD.

In 14k rose gold, black silver & black coral. We imagine it was gifted to Jeanne by Poseidon who, unclear if she was friend or foe, had pulled it from the depths of a dark cold ocean on the day she quit the piracy, so to have a memory of her time at sea. By Luana Coonen

A guillotine ring with a moveable blade in the shape of the Eye of Providence. By Margaret Cross

A symbol of Jeanne de Clisson’s fierce love and fury. Two hands clasped, hers holding a white gold flame glimmering with baguettes and round diamonds, the inside inscription reads ‘Hold Fast True’ surrounded by the bonds of hand engraved rope; the other hand keeps a circle of black diamonds and a ruby compass; together they complete their love story. By Daisy San Luis.

Trash, our 4th Annual Maker’s Competition, each killer entry built by hand around the concept of trashy jewelry. From cocaine nails to orgies, even a glove, it’s tongue in cheek slash oddball collectibles bizarroworld this year.

WINNER: DAISY SAN LUIS

When ish gets raw you don't need just a nail, you need a glove, in brass, tipped with a nail so it doesn't break when you cut, then embedded with diamonds. By Daisy San Luis.

Truly you have not lived until you've snorted Ritalin off an 18k gold party nail midi ring with BYE FELICIA hand engraved into it, dotted with diamonds. By Digby & Iona.

A pinky press on in pure platinum with such a high mirror polish that it's basically a party night selfie cam, with a hidden diamond & straight tipped for smooth cutting - fancy AF all around. By Claire Kinder.

Yes that's a diamond in her vagina.

Get 'em did. Pointer finger by Fiat Lux, middle finger by Digby & Iona.

Memento Mori, the 3rd Fiat Lux Annual Maker's Competition.

WINNER: FIAT LUX

A 2ct custom coffin cut white sapphire in 18k yellow gold with a woman, a skeleton, and a devil, symbols for birth, death, the afterlife engraved into the band & ruby pavé underneath the sapphire. By Fiat Lux.

A solid gold & ruby snake wrapping around & through a 14k skull with a diamond for her pirate eye - a reminder of original sin & our final state. By Amanda Hunt

A beautiful tetrahedric urn, whose bezel set golden rutilated Quartz can be removed in order to put your loved ones' remains inside, in solid gold on a slight gold chain. By Claire Kinder.

In bone, sapphire, garnet & pearl, winged like the Great Reaper, worn close to the heart. By Mother of Gideon.

In sterling silver & 14k gold & diamonds - a hand engraved reminder that death comes quick, like a hammer. By Daisy San Luis

An ode to the window of the soul of the most quiet companion, a cat's eye in oil paint under a Quartz lens in 18k yellow gold with four satellite diamonds.

By Nick Potash.

A knives out bloody Valentine party for our 2nd Annual Maker's Competition.

WINNER: NICK POTASH

Daydreamin'. One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin around your eyes, so sings the Bard. Sterling silver fold out hand engraved front & back, both sides of the blade hand etched with a quote and carved brass accents. By Nick Potash.

San Quentin Shiv. For when the Reaper comes. Hand etched into bronze, black diamond eyes & a cast-in-place Persian blade hand carved from an old jeweler's file. By Fiat Lux.

A Warrior Pira, whose handle is a hand clutching a snake with diamond eyes, hand carved from brass, blackened then engraved. And, yes, that's a nickel. By Daisy San Luis.

Space Odyssey. Inlay onyx & quartz over mother of pearl and a small, sharp steel blade. Shimmers, like that knife you take with you when you & Bowie blast off into space.

Persian Suicide. If there's a way to die by your own hand, this is it. Hand engraved sterling silver with rubies in a peppered rose gold hilt & 18k yellow gold accents.

Maori Spear. A sterling silver Maori Spear studded with two diamonds on a hinged hilt made from 18k yellow gold peppered with little diamonds – held between the fingers for maximum damage. By Lauren Wolf.

A heavy brass viper bracelet whose hilt is the snake’s head, hiding a thin curved steel scepter inside his body to keep your secrets safe. By Digby & Iona

Make a ring, any ring, with black diamonds for our 1st Annual Maker's Competition.

WINNER: DIGBY & IONA

By Digby & Iona.

By Elizabeth Street.

By Nick Potash.

By Daisy San Luis.

By Mother of Gideon.