I'm working on a custom order for some bird themed jewelry. I love working with customers to make their jewelry personal and one-of-a-ki...

I'm a sketchbook person. I do my best design work while traveling, where I have fewer distractions. In past years I've carried Mole...

New designs are in the works. It's interesting that my approach to designing jewelry is a bit different than my approach to designing qu...

I'm revisiting fuchsia flowers, with which I have a periodic history. Everytime I see them in the nursery here in the spring, I have fla...

The view from my sketchbook: a new earring design with NO birds. Currently in process in sterling clay.

It's time to update my textures that I use repeatedly for my jewelry, so I've been working in the sketchbook. My process is as foll...

As I work with glass and silver recently, I'm consciously trying to move the designs forward. Originally I worked with rectangles of gla...

I've blogged many times about how I use my sketchbooks to work out design ideas. More and more frequently now, I actually reduce sketche...

One of the things I love most about my ever present sketchbook is that it preserves ideas for later inspiration. Sometimes bringing a vision...

I've decided that I do some of my best design work while traveling, by plane or train. Why is that? Perhaps the brain has been freed up ...

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...

It came! After a bit of fussing to get all the bubbles out (the larger format is more difficult), I have the new skin affixed to my iPad. No...

I'm racing to get ahead of the schedule for this spring so that I can find studio time and blogging time. Unfortunately, neither happene...

I wasted half an hour last week playing around with one of my bird journal scenes as a skin for my iPhone. The square format didn't real...

I'm trying to decide if these projects are destined to be enameled. It influences my construction. Do I build a perimeter to contain and...

Hurray for the weekend! I'm hoping to make some progress on the many projects in my head and sketchbook waiting for some active attentio...

It was a busy weekend, so I didn't make much progress on the copper enameling. I did think on my silver settings at least. I'm debat...

Fourth of July holiday beckons and I haven't progressed a lot on everything piled on my work table. I decided to target a bunch of ename...

As a treat, I bought myself a bunch of Zentangle books. Zentangle is a specific type of structured doodling which has suddenly become all t...