Casey Sheppard is fun! If you ever get a chance to take a class with her, I highly recommend it. During her first trip here, we made cuffs out of PVC.
This was one of the first classes I ever took. I loved every second of it, in fact, we all did. 
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I prefer bubbles too! Thatās spot on. 
Love the flower ring. Very cool because itās so heavily textured and formed by hand rather than having been cast. I love how dimensional and organic it looks! I know the ring is from a while ago, but Iām pretty new to Ganoskin- so just getting āup to speedā 
Wonderful to see your work
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It is a beautiful flower ring. Leaves look gorgeous. Nice design.
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Love the frame with the creative setting techniques. Great color
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Thank you, Shannon!
J
I am having trouble finding an interesting thimble so wonder how hard it is to make one.
Anybody know how or have experience in this??
Many thanks from Sharron
in sunny Puerto Vallarta
Hi Erica,
What are you planning to make the thimble from?
We used to make thimble from copper in flower designs. Thimble are span on a lathe from copper. Flower designs like here;
Thanks,
Tony
I would want the thimble in sterling silver.
But I have no way to make it by lathe. Oh well, maybe making it is not possible.
My grandmotherās handmade thimble has a domed top and cone-shaped sides, with coiled-wire decorations soldered onto the sterling sides and dimples on the domed top.
āIndian Jewelry Makingā by Oscar T. Branson (page 70) has easy instructions (with pictures) for thimble making. Looks fun.
I would not consider this a fail whatsoever. Great JOB. I like out of the box stuff and I think this rocks. Very creative.
Thank you Michael E!
Wow, itās been awhile. Since quarantine, Iām working from home and adjusting to that. Eva Sherman was the one and the only teacher who visited us before the Halstead Studio closed down (temporarily) and I transitioned over to my home studio. Here is the Stix & Stonz ring Eva taught us to make. We fused sterling silver to create this and the only solder used was on the seam.
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Iāve also created a piece using a lampwork bead by Tammy Rae Wolter. Iāve never worked with glass beads before, so I had fun working with something that was new to me. I wasnāt able to get the copper as paper thin as I wanted to. So it came out a little different than the sketch. I used prongs in the back, but the walls were slippery so I also added a drop of glue to hold it in. Iāve never resorted to using glue, but I think maybe I had too in this caseā¦
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The remainder of Tammy Rae Wolterās glass beads that I had were leaves and flowers. so I made one big necklace. Each one came on copper wires roughly 4inches long, so I wrapped and soldered the copper wires around the sterling silver collar and then used LOS on the entire piece. It was the largest piece Iāve made to date and took a lot of soldering to connect everything.
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I love this! Love the lampworks; what a great creative way to use them!
Patricia
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This piece is called āStarry Night at the Colosseumā I entered it in Interweaveās First Annual Jewelry, Bead & Gem Arts Awards. I really wanted the experience of entering a contest and LJJA holds a special place in my heart, since it was the first magazine Iāve ever been in. I won an Honorable Mention for this piece which really made me happy. The piece was a soldering challenge but all in all everything went well. It was the first fire opal I have ever set and I placed a few CZās around to represent stars.
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Great job. Way to put yourself out there.
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Thatās what we are now doing, is letting everyone see our āone of a kind creationsā! Donāt keep it to yourself, get it seen, if anyone sees and learns from youā¦beautiful!
Even with us teaching nowā¦let them hear your voice. With me now doing a zoom-class at the 92Y, this technology allows us to be heard around the world.
The side effect of this deadly virus is that it is changing us a hundred-fold!!
Changing us for the positive as well.
Regards to all in the New Year, be safe & well!..Gerry Lewy!
Gerry, on my iPhone
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