Hi, I'm April. I spent my right out of college years teaching jewelry makeing skills to adults then went on to become a bench jeweler in fine jewelry (retail) for almost 20 years. Sick of sitting at a bench all day, I reinvented myself as an indepenent artist creating/ marketing art fountains of copper.( metalsmithing, on a bigger scale) Of course I never really gave up being a jeweler, just scaled back to occasional special orders and back to the fun creative stuff of my youth. Now I am ramping up production on a line that combines silver and copper. I have given up using gold except as accents as no one wants to pay for it including me. I have the luxury of living in the boonies, but pay the price not having access to workshops and shared info from colleagues, so I hope to gain & share with you.