Next up: It's a Wonderful …Shop at Baltimore Woods

We are reviving this Holiday shop once held in my home. This year it will be held at Baltimore Woods with refreshments and raffles to support the woods.  Lots of great parking. 10 great Artisans, what's not to like?

Check out this wonderful write up!

http://baltimorewoods.org/its-a-wonderful-shop/

Baking Tin Leaves

A customer asked me to make a necklace similar to the falling leaves earrings I had posted in my Etsy shop.

So I started looking around my studio to find some tin to use and remembered a piece from a vintage baking tin.

After playing with the tin and cleaning it up, I found it made a beautiful sculptural leaf.

I finished the leaves put them together with a neat little bail.

So now I am looking for more baking tins.

River Otter Custom Necklace

Another special request, take the river otter, (that handsome gal in the center of the screen):

and add a frame

maybe needs to be cooler in cooler

maybe a different shape

and then start playing with other elements to add on the necklace

with lots to choose from.

And then on to the final necklace:

A happy client and a wonderful solution!

Four Paths In Metals

Please join us tonight for the show opening:

Badger Jewelry Custom Order

I worked with a client this year who had a thing for badgers!  So much so, that she went out and found tins with images of badgers on them and had them sent to me.  Once received, the design process started.

She also had a great sense of the components she wanted to use with the images and had them sent to me as well.  

After many emails we settled on  two designs: one necklace and one brooch.  

Patinas on brass stampings

I have been working on patinas on brass stampings for a client who didn't wish for a gold look on the brass.  These are raw and have not been buffed but it was informative to work on.  Having three of each allowed me really show the experimentation.

The salt and vinegar, no not potato chips, but cider vinegar and salt in a ceramic dish, letting the brass soak for about 20 minutes and then baking it for 20 minutes at 450 degrees gave a beautiful coppery color,  Suspending the brass in a glass jar above an inch of ammonia but not touching it,  really darkened the color.

Snow Days

Snow days are great for getting things done especially when you have new ideas.
New chandelier tin earrings with sliver or copper wire.

Great Mail

It is so nice to open a package and find this…totally unexpected…totally appreciated!

Multidimensional Earrings

New earrings, trying to add more dimensions to the light weight tin.

Winter Fiber Fest - February 19th

Come visit me in Ithaca!

More New Work

Happy to be in my studio and working!

New Year New Work

I have been working with some new shapes and materials: copper and copper washers all tacked together with brass rivets.  In process and completed: 2 bib necklaces and 3 pendants.