Libzoid Blog

Wow, I am way behind in my blogging. It was that kind of week, busy and slow at the same time. Maybe it’s the post-Thanksgiving let down. I need to start gearing up for Christmas. I’ve got cards to write, gifts to make and shopping to do. The kids have declared themselves officially too old for a photo Christmas card and sadly I have to agree. Still, it was depressing to go to the Hallmark store and buy cards. I found some fun Unicef cards, so at least part of the cost goes to a worthy cause. I think next year I will try to use a Christmas themed photo of my own. My job this year is to take some interesting Christmas & winter macro shots that I can use next year.

I finished my metals class on an up note. The last day I had fun playing with basic fold forming techniques. In it’s simplest form this involves folding a sheet of relatively thin gauge metal, cutting out a shape and hammering repeatedly along one of the edges with a cross peen hammer. By cutting out slender half circles and hammering the outside edge I was able to make a few ruffled leaf shapes. I’ve turned the copper ones I made into earrings. I also did a pair in fine silver. I hammered a bit longer on one of the fine silver shapes and it curled around on itself more. I’m not sure what I’ll do with them as they are oddly mismatched, but I may use them as earrings anyway. I’ll try to take pictures of them as well as some updated studio shots today.

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