Spent most of yesterday and today in the workshop. Final totals: 4 bracelets (6 pieces each), 6 pairs of earrings (3 of which are 2 piece), 7 pendants, and 5 sets of buttons. I'll post pictures tomorrow. May go back in to finish some more buttons and pendants this week. May not. I've also made coin cufflink/tie tac sets, bracelets, and button ( Read more... )

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Got all the copper blanks--21 of them--cleaned up and flattened and the corners all rounded off, took about 2 hours. I started about 7:30 when it had cooled down (relatively speaking; it was below 100F...). With the fans running it was quite bearable. I'm covered with little bitty bits of copper (yes, I wear eye protection and a mask ( Read more... )

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Sorry!

I have been cleaning and deleting (mostly culling) pictures from the Comic Con trip. I was hoping to get a post up this weekend. Really!

Then I got the email. "Would I be interested in doing a short production run of enamel pendants?" from a person who had contacted me earlier this year. Sure! Of course! So we went back and forth, discussing ( Read more... )

Worked in the workshop both Monday and Tuesday since we had a 4-day weekend. I was in there until about 2 or 3 both days and the heat really got to me. I would come home, shower, and flop.

The big light that came with my workbench finally died--I'm convinced it was at least 25 years old--and my sister-in-law is getting me a new one for my birthday ( Read more... )

Sunday I did quite a bit of work. I set up my kiln and etc. on my patio to enamel, and I got 7 pendants and 4 pairs of earrings made. (Also several mosquito bites. Were in a drought here, WTF?) The cufflinks I put together the other day have set up nicely. I would like to make a couple more necklaces and some wire earrings; maybe I can on Thursday ( Read more... )

Haagen-Dazs Blackberry Cabernet Sorbet is amazing.

After I got my hair cut and ran a couple of errands, I went to the new workshop, only to discover that the city still had not turned on the electricity. So I spent a couple of hours hammering out earrings and pendants and then packed up all my enameling tools (including the kiln), so I can set up on ( Read more... )