Thinking about going to the BABE! Show in Oakland? Well here is a coupon! With the extra cash you might be able to buy a couple more beads! If you are at the show come up stairs to the classrooms and drop by and say hi! If you come during lunch we can chat plus […]
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Catching up on blogging again. I had terrible computer issues, lost files, corruption etc, general over all computer yuck! After recovering from that then the website had to be updated. Travel teaching took priority over the blog and low and behold it is WEEKS later since my last post. However…now that the behind the scenes
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Blue Hills Glass and Beads Scottsdale, AZ www.bluehillsglassandbeads.com March 22, 10:00 to 5:00 In this make-n-take workshop you’ll learn how make several different styles of chain from metal clay. Spend the day making your custom chain design, then take it home and fire it or come back to fire your design in the studio. In
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Just to let everyone know that my Florida Workshops are almost full. Check the Florida Guild website.
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Hi everyone, Join me and 15 other metal clay artists in San Diego this August. It should be a wonderful event. Plus San Diego is a great place to sight see, enjoy good food, the sun, the beach, who could ask for anything more! Oh yes, how about a discount! See the information below to
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I’m busy prepping this week for my upcoming trip to Arrowmont. This special place in Gatlinburg, TN is a haven of artistic creativity in the Smokey Mountains. This time I’ll be teaching R.A.D. (Ring a Day) in metal clay! Based off of the popular flickr group Ring A Day. Ring a Week was the follow
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Here are a few pics of some of the things I made in Celie’s pre-conference class on PMC Sterling. For the most part I used dry to dry construction techniques, in addition I used molds and hand carving for the branches. Keum Boo for the gold. I also used Celies ring making technique, and her
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Show and Sell: My Favorite Product – ArtGlass Clay I was lucky enough to run into Paula Radke during registration. She recommended that I stop by to see her new colors and reformulated ArtGlass Clay. I took a ArtGlass Clay class a few months ago, it was so much fun and we learned a lot!
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The conference started out in the usual fashion with Tim welcoming everybody. The crowd consisted of the usual suspects plus whole new group of newbies! Keynote speaker Ellen Wieske I first met Ellen when I taught at Haystack where she the Assistant Director. Ellen is a fun, and interesting person with an infectious smile, great
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Hi everyone, As promised to my students and others who couldn’t attend the PMC Conference here ya go! Blogging live!!!! here from the 2012 PMC Conference! Well almost live 😉 For the next few days I’ll be blogging live from the conference! My plan is to write a nightly summary of the daily events (
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My facebook friend and fellow CraftCast Intructor ( check out her fab tutorial ) Melanie Muir entered some pieces in the Bead Dreams Competition at the Bead and Button Show. Turns out she was in the same display case that I was in! Of course she WON! What place did she win?… drum roll please……….wait
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