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	<description>My blog is about what inspires in art, jewelry, and business! I have been designing, making and selling jewelry for the past eleven years.</description>
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		<title>Ornamental Hand Engraving Samples</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several friends have asked to see my Ornamental Hand Engraving Samples from the class I took last week at New Approach. We worked on 2 by 2 inch squares of copper sheet metal. The patterns above and below are meant to go on a ring, but it&#8217;s best to first practice this technique on flat instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ornamental Engraving Samples</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I promised to share some of my engravings from class, I left my notes at school today (the New Approach School for Jewelers) but luckily I have my notes that were taken for me when I missed this ornamental hand engraving class several years ago. The best way for me to photograph the engravings is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Give Away!</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/valerieaheck/2011/08/04/blog-give-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerieaheck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;m having a give away on my main blog, check it out: http://valerieaheck.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-give-away.html &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>John Paul Miller Exhibit in Cleveland</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/valerieaheck/2011/02/01/john-paul-miller-exhibit-in-cleveland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerieaheck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[enamel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In cased you missed the John Paul Miller Exhibit, here are a few of my photos from the show. My favorite is the rhinoceros above. I loved the detail, notice how all the eyes in the animals and bugs are completely granulated.     John Paul Miller actually majored in Industrial Design and thought he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having fun at the New Approach School for Jewelers</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/valerieaheck/2010/05/19/having-fun-at-the-new-approach-school-for-jewelers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerieaheck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things we learned last week was plating. I 14k gold plated this Ohio quarter and then used finger nail polish as a resist on the outer area gold. Next I rhodium plated the shape of the state and the astronaut. Pretty cool! I didn&#8217;t make this ring but the ring above in platinum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pave</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/valerieaheck/2010/04/26/pave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerieaheck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My computer is back up and running and I wanted to quickly share my pave ring! I don&#8217;t necessarily love the ring but this is what we practiced with. The pave turned out great! All my little beads that hold the stones in are the same size. I love it!]]></description>
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		<title>3 Stone Ring from Scratch</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/valerieaheck/2010/04/08/3-stone-ring-from-scratch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerieaheck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the coarse of 6 days we learned how to build a 3 stone ring out of sheet and wire sterling silver. We built the heads out of two pieces of sheet metal. Here is a back view. Now we&#8217;ve added the prongs to the head. We created a shank out of wire and cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruby Pendant</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/valerieaheck/2010/04/01/ruby-pendant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another class project from last week (New Approach School). We set all eight of these synthetic rubies and then destroyed the prongs by filing them. Three of my stones then fell out. Next we had to redo the prongs as though they were new. It was a great project and I think I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retipping Prongs</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/valerieaheck/2010/03/29/retipping-prongs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerieaheck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we set this synthetic ruby and made it look great. Then we destroyed the prongs and had to fix them like they were new. I think I did a decent job.]]></description>
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		<title>Chain Repair</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/valerieaheck/2010/03/24/chain-repair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerieaheck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In class yesterday we worked on chain repair. I broke and fixed these two chains and can barely see the repair, on each of them only 2 links were soldered together when I fixed them! It was a success.]]></description>
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