From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Experiments – Wire Wrapped Cabochons

24 March 2009

I’ve been working with wire the past couple of weeks. One fascination is how to use wire to capture cabochons. I bought a bag of small glass cabs that remind me of candy. By using light weight craft wire I’ve been able to create some interesting cages.
Here are two:
The blue doesn’t seem to have [...]

Tagged as: cabochons, design, experiment, wire

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WIP – Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.

24 March 2009

I’m taking Jewelry and Metalsmithing 1 at the Pratt Fine Arts Center.
Our first project is a ring. The top is made of a piece of pierced copper soldered to a half dome. Below are pictures of the two tops that I made last week. The pattern is gluesd on with rubber cement and then holes [...]

Tagged as: copper, piercing, ring

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Recent Work – Wire

15 March 2009

I’m learning to work with jewelry wire. Here are two recent (beginner) projects.
On the top a charm holder made of 14 gauge sterling silver and five charms. You can learn to make the charm holder at the Bead Club in Woodinville. It’s a very good use of three hours.
The second piece is a bracelet [...]

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Housekeeping

15 March 2009

I cleaned out the top drawer in my bedside table. Among the detritus were these.
Ranging form a brass koala given to me by a stranger in San Francisco my freshman year in college to a bottle shaped pin from the Maker’s Mark distillery and about a dozen zoos in between.

Tagged as: pins, places

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Kindle 2 – New Gadget Post

11 March 2009

It has arrived. On, of course, one of my busy must-be-out-of-the-house-by-10 days. So it languished on the front porch for 6 hours…
I’ll save you the unboxing post. You can have a look here at Engadget’s unboxing. I must say that Amazon has taken a lot of care with the packaging. A very nice experience. (I [...]

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