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...

The fabulous Holly Gage has done it again! Along with jurors Emma Baird , Tracey Spurgin , and Lesley Messam , Holly selected work from ove...

Back in the studio this morning, trying to attract the Muse, I'm pushing ahead on the enamel setting, despite feeling that the work is t...

Many artists tend to view metal clay as a bit of a voodoo material. They have a recipe that works (usually the manufacturer's recipe), a...

I just shipped out a special order pair of my Meadowlark earrings. Somebody very lucky has a spouse who pays attention.

I'm delighted to announce that one of my jewelry entries will be included in a fabulous online exhibition titled New Directions: Powder ...

My desk is starting to be littered with rings...and we're only one quarter of the way through the challenge. Because I liked the ring fr...

I found a new simple ring design that I love. I think I might make a whole handful of these. Here's the first, Nestling. It was rathe...

This week I made two rings to make up for one of the weeks I missed due to being away. After prowling through my sketchbooks for new ideas (...

Finally, I'm catching up a tad on my ring design. As you can see, I have plenty of ideas to explore, but time to execute is sorely lacki...

Speaking of being sucked into challenges! Last year I was insanely jealous of the treasures posted in the Ring a Day challenge, but knew fo...

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!),...

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...

Wednesday was a rough day for me, starting at 6:30 am when I ferried myself on my electric scooter over the roller coaster skyway from the H...

Iteration involves repeating a process over and over, slowly zeroing in on a target result. Computational science couldn't exist without...

For several years now, I've been saying I wanted to use the new on-line technologies to produce a book of my work. I remember the old da...

Procrastination -- the bane of productivity!!! I know this about myself: if I can keep the momentum, I can accomplish great things. If I sta...

Yesterday my local metal clay group had a meeting to play with texture making. Although I had recently purchased conventional Speedball lino...

There's a new magazine on the near horizon, one devoted to metal clay! Metal Clay Artist Magazine is the brainchild of Jeannette LeBlan...

I had some time at the library on Friday to sketch for a while, so I tried new versions of the resin inlay pendant. This is the version I li...