Bob Ebendorf is renowned for his teaching skill, so I jumped at the chance to take a short workshop titled "A Brush with Creativity...

I recently traveled to Philadelphia to attend the Arts Business Institute workshop on wholesaling, which was held in conjunction with the B...

This week I took my seventh class at Jewelry Studies International . Vasken Tanielian demonstrated the class projects will skill and precis...

Class samples are interesting things. They have to be simple enough that even beginners can make them (because there always seems to be some...

I'm home from my weekend in beautiful Pennsylvania, where I led an exploration of painting on glass and setting glass into silver clay. ...

My head is full of ideas now that I've spent a week exploring a variety of painting and drawing with enamels.  Charity Hall is an incre...

I'm abandoning the remodel midway to fly to cooler territory. As if the disarray downstairs wasn't enough, we had the upstairs cen...

Last Friday I got to escape to the torch for a full day at a workshop with Sara Sally LaGrand . The topic was silver glass reactions, which ...

I collected my beads today from the second day of the workshop. We started off the day making a floral with enamel stringer watercolor backg...

For my birthday, I spent two days making beads with Anja Basan of Anastasia Beads . This was an incredible piece of luck, as she was only te...

Four more days available to do everything needed before I leave for the Bead & Button Show . A little sense of panic begins to invade my...

Despite the wheelchair and walker, despite the inability to drive, despite limited utility of the "making" arm, I refused to cance...

It's been more than two months since I took Kate McKinnon 's workshop on boxes and birdhouses. I'm finally trying to complete on...

I had a blast in my two-day workshop with Barbara Becker Simon . We made both a complex porcupine bead and a much simpler donut bead. These ...

We spent the first two and a half days of the workshop on bronze clay. The primary bronze project was the bracelet that Louise will teach ag...