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Jenny's News and Tomfoolery: January 2014
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Jenny's News and Tomfoolery. The Artist in me sees, the Poet in me hears, but the rest of me just smiles, nods, and tries to keep up. Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Okay, if you are anything like me. you love dessert. A lot. As in I'm passionately involved with chocolate cake and mint ice cream. So, what does every passionate metalsmith who is passionate about ice cream and cake do? She makes her own sterling silver dessert service. Tuesday, January 7, 2014. To make that piece of metal I taught myself a te...
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Jenny's News and Tomfoolery: Efflorescence
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Jenny's News and Tomfoolery. The Artist in me sees, the Poet in me hears, but the rest of me just smiles, nods, and tries to keep up. Saturday, December 28, 2013. I have long been fascinated by lockets. The idea that jewelry (or anything for that matter) can have an inside and an outside really flabbergasts and delights me. I really have that child-like wonder when it comes to objects that have secret spaces and compartments. Why is something so commonplace held in a place of honor? What did it draw?
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Jenny's News and Tomfoolery: The Vajra Cup
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Jenny's News and Tomfoolery. The Artist in me sees, the Poet in me hears, but the rest of me just smiles, nods, and tries to keep up. Tuesday, January 7, 2014. This cup was both a joy and a pain in the ass to make. The technique that I learned to make this cup is called "angle raising." If you want to learn more, I actually found a pretty cool video on YouTube. HOWEVER, the real story of this piece is in the concave piece of metal that I used to interrupt the basic shape of the cup. This piece gets its t...
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Jenny's News and Tomfoolery: December 2013
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Jenny's News and Tomfoolery. The Artist in me sees, the Poet in me hears, but the rest of me just smiles, nods, and tries to keep up. Saturday, December 28, 2013. I have long been fascinated by lockets. The idea that jewelry (or anything for that matter) can have an inside and an outside really flabbergasts and delights me. I really have that child-like wonder when it comes to objects that have secret spaces and compartments. Why is something so commonplace held in a place of honor? What did it draw?