Yesterday's gym time could have turned out very embarrassing, but fortunately we had warning. Apparently there was a fire drill schedule...

The definition of my "day off" or "studio day" differs depending on what is on my list to have to accomplish before I ca...

So, one bezel ended up too large. I remelted it off. The other bezel ended up too small (I don't know why - it fit just fine before it w...

So, I coiled a new catch and got that soldered on yesterday. Then I took a look at the back components and realized that one of the coils ha...

Oops....not the word that you want to hear or say when working on a project. But it is a word that I usually utter more often than I should....

It was slow at the shop yesterday. I took a short time before I opened the shop to try out some textures on some scrap copper. I decided tha...

I'm tired. I usually am tired by Friday, but today I'm really dragging. I want to get my cloak pins finished, and I can wind the wir...

I didn't have much time to work on my pins yesterday, but I did get the backs measured and my rod marked so that I can coil my hinge. It...

Well, Minnesota was Minnesota. In other words, we lost again. This is expected because we have a long history of shooting ourselves in the f...

So, I got the intermediate step done yesterday - sweat soldering on the ledge that my enamel will sit on so that the actual bezel covers les...

We've been slow at the shop, so I took advantage of that and spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon cleaning up my silver bench so ...

Yesterday was actually fairly productive. I washed three loads of laundry, pickup up more paper bags for the shop, bought a very fun box to ...

I'm lazing about here (yeah - right....lazing - LOL). OK, starting again - I'm sitting here in front of my computer screen at 5:30 a...

I'm always rather amazed (and flattered) when people call me talented. There are so many other people out in the world who are far more ...

Have I mentioned lately that I love my Wednesdays? My list of errands will take me from Southwestern Minneapolis to the Northern suburbs, bu...

I wish I could split myself off from myself at this time of the year. I have gifts to make, a website (personal as well as my shop's) to...

So, since my enamel disks are so close to conclusion, I spent my "lunch" working on designing the setting for them. I think I made...

The announcement came through yesterday. The 2008 North American Design Contest results were announced. I did not enter a piece (or more tha...