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No-Work Weekend Jewelry Making

I’ll be making jewelry on the weekends… …but it won’t be for sale. I can’t believe I just typed that. Being a working artist, everything is always for sale, isn’t it? Well, I learned the hard way that that’s the fastest way to take something that you love and turn

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Sterling Silver Necklace – See How I Make Them

I made a sterling silver necklace just for me. Recently I’ve been feeling the need for some ME time. Normally, when I feel that way my go-to solution is a massage but this week I decided to so something fully indulgent, and decadent. Probably the most indulgent thing an artist

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Is SEO Important? You betcha.

Holy smokes, this SEO stuff ain’t for sissies. I appreciate everyone who follows me! You make it easy to show you my work. But to find new customers and fans I need to dive in to SEO (search engine optimization). And let me tell you, it’s a deep dive. It’s

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My Artful Journey, continued

I left off my art journey story at 2009, when I had last played with the silver. A that time, I was still making glass beads, and continued until 2012 when I had the call to dive into glass micro mosaics. (I just spent some time looking at old blog posts

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A Walk Down Silver Memory Lane

I was thinking back about my journey in silversmithing and went looking for photos of early work. I was very surprised that my first silver jewelry piece was thirteen years ago. I thought it had only been about 5 years. That was one of my Monet beads. At that time

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Conversations with Rocks

Yesterday I came to an impasse with the silver so I moseyed over to the lapidary station and started going through my rock collection. That’s one thing I love about making this type of jewelry. If I get stymied in one area there are plenty of others I can jump

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