Playing with fire and swinging hammers
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If you read my last post you know that I stained my hands with some Ferric Nitrate while etching some silver. Well that was 13 days ago. Today the very last spec of black has vanished from my hands. What remains are some nasty brown stains on my fingernails. I’m going [...]
In my last post I wrote about breaking out of a design funk for a pendant I needed to make. On Saturday I started working on that pendant. My first thoughts were to texture the metal being used for the pendant. The main stone is a pietersite (a dark stone with streaks [...]
Well tonight was supposed to be spent working in the shop designing and making gorgeous pieces of jewelry. It doesn’t always work out that way. I’ve found I just can’t sit down and put on paper all the ideas and designs I have floating around in my brain. Instead I spent too [...]
I was looking through some older pictures when I ran across these. They were taken when I was preparing for an art show in October 2007. In these pictures there are approximately 30 rings that will be cast in sterling silver.
I plan to write another posting that offers more in depth information on [...]
I’ve been extremely busy with coaching High School hockey and haven’t had a chance to make any pieces of jewelry. Between that and I work all I’ve wanted to do is rest. Needless to say I’ve been needing some inspiration. When I saw these charoite gemstones, it was just the inspiration I’ve needed. These gorgeous [...]