Although I started to design and make metal jewelry at the age of 15, I became an architect, and only started making jewelry again in the last 12 years. About 7 years ago, I started working with flame-worked glass, and am now relearning my metal smithing skills so I can marry metal with my glass work into finished jewelry pieces. Since architectural work is basically the process of problem solving how different building crafts must be staged and combined to create a finished building, I find learning new processes and thinking through the construction of a new piece exciting, with the benefit that most jewelry pieces no not take about 2 years to design and construct.; -