Its been a while since I’ve blogged, and of course a ton of stuff has happened!!! I had 3 print ads up around town at Chicago’s CTA stops. The model…
Now that I’m back from Italy and fully settled in, its back to the business of smithing-it-up in preparation for the One of a Kind Show here in Chicago, December…
My final practice engravings!!! Week 3 I began making some of my own work on the side… Finishing those up this week in Praiano, Campania Italy! I also was able…
Here are a few more engraving studies I completed last week, week 2 of the engraving intensive I’m working on at Le Arti Orafe in Florence, Tuscany. It was a…
Earlier this year I started to feel as if I had a lot of ideas I was having trouble implementing… In searching for new ways of making, I started asking…
Summer is racing by and exciting things are happening in the studio and at my retailers! A few weeks ago the Chicago Reader listed me as ”Best Jewelry Artist” Chicago, 2012. There…
Phasmids are the crude sensory organs of the Secernentea class of nematode parasites. All of these necklaces were created in 2009 in copper and lead free vitreous enamel, fired in…
There were some experimental times in 2009, when I first got my Paragon kiln and was learning enameling. I was into this book on Parasitology I had gotten. It was…
I realized recently that I had inadvertently cleansed my website of all the less-than perfect photos from earlier in my jewelry-making career (by which I mean a few years ago.)…
Illustrious mavin of the lens, Rachel Hanel has put the finishing touches on the photos of my new work and she has really out-done herself this time! Here are…
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