Today was “sorting the books” day. Although I did a big purge of my books a few months ago, today I decided to organize what I had decided to keep. I have a lot. A lot of reference books… mostly on jewelry, of course.
What’s the point of having a book collection if I don’t reference then frequently? So I am moving almost all of them over to the studio so I can have them on-hand. I will also take some time to start (gradually) looking through these books to see what’s in them. I…
Sometimes things in our lives can seem difficult and we can't get a handle on what the problem is. Sometimes we don't even know there IS a problem... we just chalk the thing up to "something we don't like to do".
I have a couple of examples. I used to say I didn't like talking on the phone. It's true. I didn't. I would dread when the phone would ring and I'd see that it's someone I know and then I'd know that if I answered (which I generally do), I was in for a phone…
First, we must laugh at me. Well, at least I made it through 9 weeks (more or less). Then the snowball started. It was custom orders, then pandemic, and gallery closings, and tutorials, etc. I am OFF the schedule, completely, of feeling the need to fill a quota. As I said on Facebook, I've gone feral (in more ways than one).
On Saturday, I will catch you up on jewelry I've made recently. On Friday, I'll catch you up on my latest tutorial. And tomorrow, I'll show you the…
So you know that Beck song that goes: Soy un perdedor... I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
For years I thought it was, "I'm a lizard baby so why don't you kill me?"
I kinda still sing that in my head when the song comes on Pandora. Anyway, trying to stave of feeling like a loser... or a lizard. But it's hard when I've had two weeks in a row of NOT accomplishing my New Year's resolution of creating 10 items fo jewelry per week.
It's just...…
Another short one as I am both pressed for time and have little jewelry to show.
I only have three pieces of jewelry to show for the week. I'm gonna let that slide because the other thing I accomplished this week was resurrecting my simple copper etching tutorial. Tutorials are an immense amount of time investment, so I'm cutting myself some slack on the…
Wow, what a week. I'm going to start off with my weekly jewelry update this time, then we'll follow up from last week.
So... I did NOT meet my quota of 10 pieces of jewelry last week and it's okay. I give myself a pardon when something out of the ordinary comes up... and it did.
Last week I had the great good fortune of being able to take a four-day intensive workshop with guest instructor Valentina Caprini…