Gail's Tales...and Jewelry Design

....or maybe it's the fact that I left my carbon sitting next to the litter box for a few days.  Honestly all the talk about storing car...

I put a few things into the kiln last week and the result was all tans and pale greens.  I figured the kiln gods were feeling blah that day....

I've been cleaning up the studio....a reoccuring theme.  It never stays clean but it gets to a point where it is so disorganized that I ...

Below are the minutes from the discussion that took place at the Metal Clay World Conference about a single metal clay group Two volunteer ...

I have so many jewelry books stacked up in the studio that I want to read or study....but this book showed up on my doorstep yesterday and I...

After weeks of 90+ degree weather it is finally in the 80's and tonight it will be in the 60's....great sleeping weather.  I left wo...

The NEO PMC guild is hosting Lora Hart and Gorden Uyehara on August 25-29, 2011.  Our own Cathy Davies-Paetz will also be teaching.  Besides...

She's just hanging out while I take jewelry pics.  .

I polished up a few of the pieces I made last week.  Next stop...the assembly bench.  These are far from finished.  I love the extra cut tha...

It's been crazy hot here in Cleveland.  Driving home on Thursday the car was reading 107 on the freeway.  Lou headed to Michigan on Frid...

New Directions is a book that "embraces the unique personality that metal clay brings in the form of jewelry, vessels, functional and d...

Got back yesterday.  It was really great to catch up with friends...especially Facebook friends.  To actually see them in person and get a c...

Jakob is the cutest little guy in the world .....and he's 1 yr old............ .

I was at my brother's on the 4th so I went beach combing for rocks and drift wood.  Textures and shapes and rocks to drill...what more c...

It's no secret that I love ethnic jewelry and artifacts.  I have quite a few books that I've bought over the years and stuffed into...

In one of these posts I think I talked about making a dozen or so etched copper plates.  Final count.....I made 43 plates.  I used copper in...

These are all plates that I have prepped for etching.  I think I've got this thing down :)  It's all about getting the metal up to ...

Lou came home tonight and told me there were Christmas lights on just down the street....I love my neighbors...don't know who they are.....

I have some obsessive tendencies when it comes to doing things....or maybe it's just that I don't want to pull out the supplies and ...

Doing some etching this weekend.  I'm converting some of my tear-away sheets into something a little more permanent and with a deeper cu...