Posts Tagged ‘Mid Cornwall school of Jewellery’

Use an inexpensive artists palette to organize and transport gemstones in the studio.

Here’s a handy little tip for the studio. In my recent www.craftcast.com class Renaissance Replay, the project called for LOTS and LOTS of gemstones. I used to keep gemstones organized by using  triangular bead trays. The problem is that if you have a lot of gemstones you used a lot of trays. To make thing

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Just spent the last week or so at the PMC Conference. When I got home I had a surprise waiting! Ornament Magazine sent me a copy of the latest issue that I was  featured in! I’m so excited. I did have a chance to read the article while I was at the conference thanks to

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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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I am thrilled and honored to be a featured artist in the July 2012 issue of Ornament Magazine. Last year I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Carl Little while I was teaching at Haystack in Maine. My head was spinning with the fun and excitement of the whole Haystack experience. The creativity of

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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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You can only have so much slip, then what? I found this technique a couple of years ago for reconstituting metal clay and I love it! I recommend it to all my students. I used to HATE reconstituting old dried metal clay projects that didn’t work out. The main reason was because I didn’t have

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