Outside her commercial work, Valerie designs jewelry purely for herself, experimenting freely with velvet, plastic, hand painted marker, metal, pearls and stones. Recurring motifs, flowers, butterflies, ornate baroque forms, run through pieces made from very different materials and techniques. 
Where her Zara work moves through trend research and supplier development for commercial scale, this collection has no client and no production constraint. It is where technique meets instinct, fine jewelry methods applied to unconventional materials, made and kept for herself.