Gail's Tales...and Jewelry Design

We've all seen the computer icons that display someone's mood....or signs on people's desks.  A little smiley face when their ha...

and they still has carbon sticking to them.  These are large pieces.  I kept making them bigger and bigger and then started to embellish wit...

I picked these up from Aja Vaz at Wandering Spirit Designs on Etsy .  They are fabulous!!!  And big...but light because they are hollow.  Th...

One of the interesting thing about working with scientists is seeing how they view the world.  What they think is interesting or funny.  One...

Below are pics of some of our finshed pieces from the workshop with Hadar Jacobson .  It was a good weekend.  I learned inlay, how to make c...

Hadar Jacobson is in town to teach a workshop for our local PMC guild.  I've never worked with her clay before so this was a chance to t...

Working away in the studio....LOL.  One of the guys at work heard me talk about "the studio".  He asked (seeming somewhat impresse...

I ran into one of the guys at work today.  He works on the dock and we have known each other for about 10 years now.  I know his wife and hi...

I've been polishing for the last few days.  I don't know why I hand polish my pieces instead of throwing them into a tumbler.  I gue...

Yesterday we go hit with lots of snow.  This is the neighbors car.  Our bushes on the south side of the house were so heavy with snow the...

Just a few pieces in this load but the colors are different from last night.  Check out the pink... I was asked about my source of the ca...

Yes I still use the original (slow fire) bronze metal clay.  All day I was thinking of the load in the kiln.  I put it in last night when ...

How can it take 1 day to go from this...... to this..... Oh who am I kidding??  It took about an hour to create total chaos.  But I h...

NJRoll Designs!!!  Please e-mail your address to me at gaillannum@aol.com and I will ship it out to you this week. 

 West African symbols...except for the the sundial.  Ancient language tablets and a mudcloth design  Fish, geometrics Now it's time t...

What a week this has been!!   It started with an ice storm on Monday and ended with a blizzard on Friday.   I decided to take today off for ...

Now that the ice storm is over we get to look at Mother Nature's gift.  Today was a sunny, cold, blue sky day.  The trees that are cover...