an evening of soldering and painting.

So my third soldering attempt is way better than the first two. Pretty good, just a few lumps and bumps that need to be filed smooth (and who doesn’t have a few lumps and bumps that need fixing?). I’m still not quite there with the adding a bead of solder – I have a hard [...]

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i’m learning how to solder!

Finally, after many years of putting it off, I have picked up a soldering iron and melted some solder. I’ve been working on some mini collages to sandwich between glass, but I’ve been itchy to just try it out already. So I decided to do some practice pieces with microscope slides. And good thing. Because [...]

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so sure we were on to something.

I’ve been working on two projects – my encouragement cards and my soldered pendants. Here are some paper flowers that I am making for the encouragement cards. They are so fun to make! I use a brad to attach the pieces. And my soldered pendants…I’ve been working on mini collages to sandwich between the glass [...]

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playing with fire.

Last Friday was my Bezel Boot Camp class, taught by wonderful artist & teacher Kim St. Jean. I loved it! It was great and so much fun. We learned how to create a bezel to fit around an object and solder it onto a sterling silver sheet, at which point we could add texture, stampings, [...]

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the seated woman with the parasol.

Here’s what I’ve been working on lately – a fascinating glimpse into my studio! I’ve done a late of rearranging and reorganizing in my studio over the past few months, with the result that I’m now actually able to use my work table as….a work table! gasp! There was always so much junk on top [...]

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poppy inspiration.

delicious red cake. A few months back I bought a whoopie pie pan from Wegman’s. This weekend I decided to try it out. I had some buttermilk left from blueberry muffins I made last weekend (they were ok – need to tweak the recipe a bit). So I decided to make red velvet whoopie pies [...]

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even in the dark, the birds still sing.

let’s change directions. I decided a little while ago to change directions in my digital art attempts. I thought, hey, maybe I should actually take the time to learn Photoshop before I start diving into tutorials. Perhaps then I might have some inkling of what I am doing! So to that end I’ve been reading [...]

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