Teaching

The Online School of Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design

It’s official! I don’t just teach courses, workshops, and masterclasses. I have my own school. Technically, it’s been official for a while, but after many months of work behind the scenes, I’ve assembled all the pieces, fused the foundation, soldered the connections, forged the materials, and sanded like mad to present my school’s shiny polished…

Inspiration / Teaching / Workshops

Curbing Muddy Overwhelm

I’ve been getting the bug to play with clay ever since we finished building my husband’s pottery last year. Okay, who am I kidding? I’ve always had a thing about clay. It is magic mud with an ability to go from lump to vase with merely the need to spin it fast and touch it…

Behind the Scenes / Online Courses / Teaching / Videos / Workshops

Down Under or Across the Pond? + More video (finally!)

Where Is There for You? In preparation for the coming season, I’m making more time zone friendly slots available for collectors’ virtual studio tours and for students’ live Q&A coaching sessions that are part of my online school’s courses. If you’re in a time zone that is more than 4 hours difference from Eastern Time…

Art Jewelry / Behind the Scenes / Granulation / Inspiration / Teaching / Workshops

Etruscan Romance Meets Modern Sentiment

I’m often asked which is my favorite technique… And what I always answer is “whichever one I’m working in at the time,” because I love them all! After months of hammering my heart out via the technique of Eastern Repoussé, I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tiny orbs…granules that is, as I’m finishing up…

Behind the Scenes / Teaching / Workshops

Me Unedited – Because Perfection Is Overrated

It’s spring! It’s also a whole host of holidays… But it’s not spring break for me. This week I avoided burning down the house by calling an electrician in time. Next week we’re back at Emory Midtown Hospital’s Cardiac Care Waiting Room…but this time my husband will be the one waiting. Here’s hoping my family…

Inspiration / Teaching / Workshops

Silver Flowers or Yellow Snow?!?

The time has come for that yearly event that must be experienced to be believed, that great yellowing of earth…and trees, and cars, and decks, and dogs, and, yes, definitely air. Spring is here and with it comes what I have termed The Other Yellow Snow. And it has only just begun. In preparation for homemade…

Behind the Scenes / Eastern Repousse / Inspiration / Painting / Teaching / Workshops

The Relief of Zero G with a Dash of Salt

I write to you today from the blissful calm of my new Zero Gravity Chair and nestled into my new, neck hugging heating pad here on the back deck. The birds have been chirping mere feet from me and occasionally a Disney rat (chipmunk) pops up over the deck’s edge to stare at me. Here…