It's interesting to sit and make bird after bird by hand from metal clay. Detailed observations are required. What poses look natural? H...

Why do simple ideas sometimes get more involved? I thought I was going to whip out a few simple Garden Window Pendants, but then the muse to...

Interspersed (widely) with the kitchen remodel, I've been making a few treetop beads out in the broiling hot studio. I've narrowed t...

This week I'm feeling inspired, I guess. I have a glass workshop tomorrow with the inimitable Sara Sally LaGrand , and I'm also head...

While I thought I was catching up last week (really, I was!), I still managed to fall behind schedule on my Ring a Week construction. I deci...

As I showed earlier in the week, I embedded an enamel-painted glass tile into this fine silver metal clay ring. This was the first time that...

The holidays are sucking away my studio time, much to my dismay. I'm holding out for some intense days of creating between Christmas and...

I claimed a few hours on the torch from a busy weekend, to try to recover a bit more glass mojo. My stringer control is getting better. I ju...

Another bit of progress over the weekend: enameled copper discs . These are three of the hand-drawn discs I showed several weeks ago, which ...

It feels great to have a bit of time this weekend to catch up. I've made a few glass beads (eek! still can't do what I want to do!),...

Alas, the kiln gods did not smile on the bird rings. Last night when I finished the rings and then checked sizes, I decided to carve the sha...

So many people have asked about bronze bird rings that I broke down and carved another set last night. The issue with rings, of course, i...

Finished jewelry is beginning to emerge from the mess that is my worktable. This is the second aquamarine bracelet, which I like much better...

They came through the kiln unscathed, that fearless flock of bronze bird rings. Of course, there is always one that has to fly a different ...

I hear that Bill Struve will introduce his new fast fire version of his bronze clay at the PMC Guild Conference next week. Thus, I'm t...

During my recent class at Bead & Button, one of the students made an error in sizing for the two parts of a Garden Window pendant. It...

I'm continuing my experiments with enamel on copper. I'm in love -- metal + glass, my two biggest loves, combined! I keep buying mo...

I'm home and moving very slowly today. The sun is shining, my redbud is in full glory, and the live oaks have dumped every leaf onto the...

We had a small private service today, to scatter ashes in my mother's favorite place to walk. Now it's time to begin again.

My mother is finally at peace after her five year battle with lung cancer. I miss her.