Gail's Tales...and Jewelry Design

We are watching the movie "300". It's totally a guy movie...war, blood, guts. But it does have a couple of things that are gra...

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you walk outside into 10 degree weather and you think it feels wonderful. It felt wonderful today. I wanted to lay my face down on my ice ...

I was at Bed, Bath, and Beyond yesterday and found this very large plastic pitcher with a pour spout that pops up. It makes the perfect con...

I finally got it all together to make tear-aways. I downloaded some very cool ancient fonts from the internet. I am working with a few right...

I'm glad my next door neighbor goes to bed early. If he happened to be up late at night and out in his backyard he might be wondering wh...

So my BFF Cris commented on the shields that I made with a suggestion for a marketing plan..... "You could create a whole new line for ...

These are only paritally done but I have a couple of pics.... Just out of the kiln..... After the torch. This one gave such a great brownis...

How great was this???? I pretty much had Saturday to myself because Lou and his buds went to the Golf Show for about 6 hours. And today was ...

My blog has reached a milestone of sorts....10,000+ hits. As a little girl I grew up on a farm in a small town in Ohio. My world was was ve...

One of the really cool things about copper is the colors you can get when you heat it. If you haven't tried this.....you need a torch an...

No patina yet...but here are a few pieces from Saturday. Since it was Valentine's Day I had to make at least one heart. A little bit of ...

Well I did get up...eventually. I slipped on some ice in the parking garage at work. I was actually looking where I was going but was focuse...

You know you're an old married couple when you wake up in the morning, exchange Valentine's Day cards and both go into your respecti...

Here's my experience so far..... The copper metal clay is similar to the bronze in workability.....which makes sense since bronze is an ...

I did!! I did!! Groovy Bill Struve and his lovely wife Lacey Ann from Metal Adventures have developed another metal clay...this time copper...

After some research I found a 4000 year old love letter that was written in Cuniform on a clay brick in Babylonia. To Bibeya, from Gimil-Mar...

I'm in the process of making some new textures sheets. People who see my bronze pieces want to know what the pendants say. Quite hones...

Gail: Why yes Officer Dan, I'm late for my Mother's house Officer Dan: Well, you were going 78 in a 65 zone. I'm going to have ...

for artists. And it seems to be when we are the happiest except for when we are with each other. The comments that were left on the last pos...

for me to make a mess in my studio. My nice new workspace now has clay, oil and metal dust all over it. YEAH!! I spent a good part of my wee...

Hackers broke into the computers of some signs in Texas and reprogrammed them. I love it.

Between now and tomorrow night we are suppose to get 11-17" of snow. I know that I live in Cleveland and this is Janaury....but enough...

The is my new desk and metal clay workstation. I managed to hang the shelf on Friday. I have two smaller ledges coming that will go under th...

BEFORE........................................ AFTER.............................................................. 2/3rds of the room is now...