Exploring the polymer clay!

New toys... been teaching myself with the help of YouTube and BlueBottleTree tutorials... here are a bunch of things in various stages of done-ness. These come out quick and in volume.  FUN!!!

Back to my metalwork roots - and a long way to go...

These are the two pieces I decided were good enough to start wearing following classes at this year's Bead and Button Show. The one on the left was from a class with Kieu Pham Gray and on the right is one made in class with Kay Raksha. I did my first metalwork about 35 years ago (37? 36?) with the mom of a fellow student. She hosted a class for middleschoolers at her home, where she taught us to solder, cut, form, and forge. I lost most of those skills but over the years have attempted to dip back in. Now that I have a home workshop, I can experiment more!