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Retired…Gone Fishing
The last couple of weeks have been brutal, and I’ve literally been asking myself when can I retire or at least slow down. I’ve been navigating my way through the work created by other companies’ screw ups, packing up half my house in preparation for renovation, and dealing with the “continuing sto-o-o-ry” of a yes-you-do,…
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The Material of Myth and the Biggest Bang
Last week I learned that the recent full moon coincided with Imbolc, the Celtic festival that serves as the halfway point between the shortest day of the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. Imbolc is also known as St. Brigid’s day. Brigid (Ffraid in Welsh) is the patron saint of Metalsmiths, including the “bright smiths”…
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Lacy Economics: How and Why I Mastered Filigree
As we all freak out over precious metal prices (and unthinkable violence, the loss of democracy, the patriarchy being all too alive and well…), I’ve been remembering how it felt when I was a beginning metalsmith and, ironically, the partially economic reasons that I first became good at filigree. Silver was $3.11 ozt by the…
