Our Story of Jewelry Making and Herbs

Bob Eaton and Diane Eger started their custom jewelry business 30 years ago. They met in a small mountain town in Colorado and moved to New Mexico. The business was then called Eaton-Eger Goldsmiths. Bob Eaton was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and attended Eastern Michigan University. Bob moved to Colorado and worked as a precision machinist. He became attracted to the flexibility and creativity of jewelry and began designing and making jewelry . He also skied and kayaked almost every river in the west. Diane Eger was trained in the performing arts and has an M.A. from the University of Illinois. Her fine art background includes art history studies at the University of Munich in Germany, traveling and observing dance and visual arts in Europe, the Middle East and India. She began working in crafts as a weaver and then switched to working with metal. Eaton-Eger Taos Jewels is represented in 3 galleries. When not making jewelry, Bob and Diane spend their time hiking in the mountains, woods and deserts of the Southwest.

Diane Eger has spent 30 years wild-crafting and identifying plants in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah. Formal training began with Michael Moore and his herb walks. As a student of Tierona Low Dog she worked in an herbal clinic in Albuquerque and received her certificate as a clinical herbalist. She comes from a long line of ancestors who used herbal remedies, ancestors in Austria and Southern Illinois. Always drawn to nature she had a natural food café and herb shop in a small Colorado mountain town. She believes our connection to Mother Earth is our major method of staying well and balanced. She also uses crystals and stones to point us in healing directions.