Weekend Reading.

I can’t wait to sit back and get stuck into the new books I got from Amazon.com this morning!  They came sooner than I expected and I know they are going to be full of juicy things!!
I don’t get much of a chance to make stuff at the moment.  Summer is becoming more demanding for [...]

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My Little Work Space.

My husband and I have set up a little spot in the garage for me to work on my jewellry making.  It’s not the greatest…but at least I can do all the messy stuff I want and not worry about it too much.

I am trying to teach myself to set cabochons and it’s not easy [...]

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Picture Post.

So this is a picture post of the stuff that I have been making….

This picture is of the first cuff I forged from 2mm sterling sheet, it’s about 140 grams in weight and it’s hammer finished.

This was the ring we all made in the silversmithing workshop. It was 2 rings sweatsoldered together. It’s not a [...]

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Been & Gone…

The weekend that is.  I was so not in the mood for that course…but I had a great time.  We made a ring and a pendant.  And because we ran outta time,  the instructor made us all a pair of earrings.  But I had already made some similar at home,  so I didn’t care to [...]

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Progress…

Well as it turns out,  Father in Law didn’t know how to silver solder.  He has only soldered with electrical stuff.  So nothing happened in that regard.
I did however manage to Forge an awesome piece of jewelry.  I will post photos of that soon.  I am rather pleased with how it turned out.  Learnt [...]

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