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Sorry, I just couldn’t resist the title.  I have a love/hate relationship with rivets.  I love how they function and I love the look, but I struggle with getting them so they look right.  I suspect some of the challenge I am experiencing comes from the fact that I am often riveting directly into polymer […]

In my last post, I talked about the work I threw out. Fortunately, not everything went into the trash. I have finished a number of pendants destined for sale at the Bead Bazaar, plus a pair of pendants that are already spoken for.  I’m just posting the highlights here, if you want to see more, […]

I am continuing to ride this creative wave.  Such fun!  I’m calling this necklace “Copper Falls”.

The concept for this necklace has been rolling around in my brain for months.  I just couldn’t get all the elements and the engineering worked out.  I played with the shape in a couple of different formats until it occured […]

It’s really exciting when the idea I’ve got in my head cooperates with my fingers and my latest technique obsession to produce something I like as much as the piece I imagined in my head. It’s a rare occurrence. Most designs evolve pretty far from the original idea, but every once in a […]

Not all iterations of a design are entirely successful. Last night I experimented with a simpler version of the silver and polymer clay riveted button pendants.

Well, I don’t really dislike the results, I don’t think this variation is as successful as the box bezel version. If I had started with this style I […]

I’ve written about 3 blog posts in the last several days, but none of them has been right. Basically I think I am having a hard time expressing myself. This Summer feels a bit like limbo, sort of an eddy to hang out in while real life goes by. I’ve been spending […]

I’m on creative cloud nine right now. I am having so much fun marrying metal and polymer clay. It feels amazing to be back in the creative groove again. I missed this so much, and during the long dry time I was sure I would never recapture the mojo. It’s such […]

I had an amazing weekend creatively speaking. I spent two days at the Brookfield Craft Center in a class on Cold Connections with Robert Dancik. Several years ago a friend had urged me to take a class with him some day because, she said, “He’ll make you look at everything differently”. Well, […]

Creative time in the summer feels like stolen moments here and there. Somehow I seem to forget this every year. I like the slower pace of summer and I really like being able to sleep past 5:55 a.m., but with the kids home from school, my time isn’t my own. Things should settle into a […]

and practice, and practice…
Metalworking is hard. It takes lots and lots of practice. Polymer clay is a stroll in the park by comparison. lol Actually, polymer clay is deceptively easy. It’s much harder to produce finely finished work. It’s the old adage “the devil’s in the details.  But, I […]