You know summer has arrived when……….

June 11, 2010

The San Diego County Fair [called the Del Mar Fair by many] opens, which is tonight. And the opening of the fair means that I will be working at the Volunteers For Mineral booth in the Hall of Gems & Minerals. The Volunteers have teamed up with the Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society again to […]

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Nancy Megan Corwin Workshop – The Sequel (Day 4)

June 5, 2010

This is the fourth post about the workshop. To read the prior posts use these links: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 (all links will open in a new window) Day 4 – Monday and it was our last day. Megan started with a demo of HOT forging tools and she held up a large […]

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Nancy Megan Corwin Workshop – The Sequel (Day 2)

June 5, 2010

This is the second post about the workshop. To read the prior posts use this link: Day 1 post Day 2  – Saturday and we started again at 9:00 am everyone talked about the first day, how tired they were when they got home – there was such a high energy!  We started the day […]

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Nancy Megan Corwin Workshop – The Sequel (Day 1)

June 5, 2010

Over the Memorial Day weekend, Nancy Megan Corwin returned to San Diego for another workshop. I attended the first workshop back in December 2009 which was only 2 days and gave me a great start on my skills.  This workshop was FOUR days and I was able to complete the project I had set for myself and […]

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Bzzzy, Bzzzy Bzzy as a beeeeeeeeeee!

May 26, 2010

I have been so busy at work for the past two weeks that I come home at night and have no desire to work on anything! It is: have a nice tot of scotch (single highland malt of course), watch some television and off to bed early. I did start another trinket tray about 3 […]

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Call For STUDENTS [teachers are provided]

May 11, 2010

This is a open call for students who still want to attend Metals Week at the Idyllwild Summer Arts Program in Idyllwild California. Metals Week is from June 27 through July 1, 2010 THERE ARE STILL SPACES AVAILABLE!!!. Background: Deb, my metals mentor, organizes and is one of the instructors at this wonderful event. Last […]

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Ripples Vessel

May 9, 2010

Dimensions: Height – varies from 4″ to 5″ Diameter – 2″ at the base, 6″ at the rim List of Materials: 12″ diameter 18 gauge copper disk Pickle quenching water List of Tools: 2 T-Stakes 2 Raising hammers 1 Planishing hammer Torch Brass brush 2 buckets- at least 9″ deep and 12″ in diameter – […]

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Metal Clay

April 21, 2010

I have a HATE – Love relationship with metal clay. Probably 18 months ago I took a class at Sha-Sha Bead Spa (in San Diego) to learn about silver metal clay. At that time I was just starting to work with chains, silver, and making jewelry and I thought the class would add to my […]

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Cuttle (Fish) Bone Casting

April 11, 2010

This is a class that Mary and I took at Farrin O’Conner the weekend of March 24. The class was taught by Carl Stanly who also taught the Fold Forming Class I particpated in [you can read about it here ]. Mary drove to my house and then I drove us to Pasadena. We arrived […]

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Earthquake!

April 4, 2010

OH – MY- GOSH! WEeeeeeee – a real roller, I felt like I was on a boat! We just had a big earthquake and it shook for a long time! It was a 6.9 down in Baja  – That’s 150 miles from here but you could tell by the duration of the rolling and shaking […]

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