Here are some images I did for class demonstrations about cutting the back of your bezel setting out to show the stone. This worked nicely because I had that green chrysoprase in there and the light shone through it.
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The light this time of year is particularly nice.
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The first day of class went by slowly. I've been doing this so long that I just wing it in class. I don't have an order in which I teach things but try to assess the needs of the collective student group and start there ( Read more... )

Swimming in the full moon light, or almost full moon. Some stupid red neck girls put some trot lines out across the swimming area with massive hooks on them. The bait was gone, so I suppose the turtles had a snack ( Read more... )

What I have is a new computer, a lovely new laptop. After my 10yr old decommissioned school system laptop this one is dreamy. Everything works and I'm still figuring it out. I've had it for about 5 days. I drove up to Jefferson with my friend Kenneth to shop at a place called "Tiger direct" which has very good prices. He got them to throw in a ( Read more... )

Now for the latest change in my world... I now have internet access waaay out here in the country where I currently reside. Yes I've lived here over 2 years without connection. Maybe soon I'll be able to use the phone in the house soon. Well, I have to get a phone line splitter first. I have one around here somewhere but it's easier to buy another ( Read more... )

Christmas has changed considerably since those days of my childhood when we would go out to the woods and chop down an old cedar tree, bedraggled and thin of branch, smelling richly of pungent cedar, festoon it with glass ornaments, pile presents beneath it and in the company of brothers, great aunts and grandparents rip into their paper with ( Read more... )

I'm struggling to get the rest of the Old Vine Zinfandel out of this box of wine I've been enjoying during the last week. I finally used a dollar pocket knife that I bought at the early morning flea market near Murphy NC. Remove bag, squeeze bladder. Yes it was a box of wine ( Read more... )

There comes a point when you're teaching someone something when they finally get it. Out of the 7 people in my class about 4 of them get it. I"m teaching a kind of setting that is very precise and looks simple. I wonder if there is some way that I can make the others understand what they're doing wrong and put it in terms that they understand ( Read more... )

A practice entry to make sure I haven't forgotten how to write and post ( Read more... )