Cara created amazonian cuffs for the bold. Collectors of Cara's work included Zaha Hadid and Camille Cosby and more recently Cipriana Quann. Most of the supermodels of the 1980s collected a piece or two.

The designer created jewelry from lucite, polyester resins, and precious metals from 1971 to 1019. The pieces listed are a combination of works for sale, acquisition, and loans for exhibitions.

Cara's pendants doubled as talismans for love, healing, and good wishes. One client took her heart pendant into heart surgery with her. Cara influenced a legion of designers, including Alexis Betar and Isabella Rossellini's resin collections.

A sculptor since the late 60s, Croninger developed a practice of mixing her own pigments into liquid polyester resin and doing 'pours' into self-made molds. Her sculpture has a painterly palette and resonates with strength and beauty like the jewelry.

Talisman Collection I consists of jewels of precious metals. The collection includes one-of-kind, few-of-a-kind, as well as production pieces. Throughout her career, Cara Croninger explored the use of metals from brass, bronze, and sterling silver to gold. She created prototypes that were cast as well as original pieces that were hand-pounded into shape. The diaspora of Indigenous adornment and animal fetishes has influenced much of Croninger's work but in particular the metal designs, which include facet bangles reminiscent of arrowhead facets, a Wolf Head pendant, teeth, and claw earrings, and the huge Archer rings as well as tiny heart pendants.