Lessons in Etching

Posted on Monday, July 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

Designer’s Brain Lock

Posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 | No Comments

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 [...]