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FusedNTwisted: Soup Weather!

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Sunday, November 6, 2011. Our Best Tortilla Soup With Avocado and Sour Cream Garnish. Combine In Blender: Canned Tomatoes, Onion, Garlic, Cilantro, and Sugar. Blend Until Smooth. Pour Chicken Broth And Chipotle Peppers Into Large Pot. Add Chicken and Tomato Mixture From Blender. While the soup is simmering, shred some cheese. Peel the avocados and cut into chunks. Crumble some tortilla chips and open the sour cream! One More Time. The Best Tortilla Soup Ever. It's The Peppers! 16 ounce can tomatoes.

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FusedNTwisted: May 2011

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Monday, May 23, 2011. A Taste of Summer. Here is the second treasury to feature one of my items this week. Scroll down until you. Find a wrinkled copper cuff bracelet- and there you will find me. I hope you click on some of these items and let the curator know how much you like her selections. When summer goes with earthy tones .'. RoseWood IN STOCK R. A girl looking thro. Wall Art Wall Decor. Pick Your Color C. Clouds at Sunset. . Recycled sari silk . Red Banded Agate an. By Red Row Studio. One last vis...

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FusedNTwisted: July 2011

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Monday, July 18, 2011. How To Make Finishing Wax For Patinas. The first ingredient is beeswax. I found some two ounce cakes of it at our local hardware store. Cut the beeswax into small chunks (or shred it) and fill a baby food jar with beeswax. This 2 oz. cake will probably fill the jar. The second ingredient is Turpentine. Just regular old turpentine, again- from the hardware store. Pour the turpentine over the beeswax to the top of the jar , put the lid on and set it aside. Sunday, July 17, 2011.

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FusedNTwisted: January 2012

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Saturday, January 14, 2012. My first big creative adventure of the New Year will be to attend a custom clasps workshop with Alison Antelman. January 21 and 22, in Berkeley. I was first entranced with Alison's work in December when I attended Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios. Alison Antelman Soldering An Earring. Alison's Bracelet With Clasp. Bracelet Featured in December's Lapidary Journal. Photos by Eric Smith. More posts about Alison and her work will follow soon. I would love to hear about it!

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FusedNTwisted: December 2011

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Something Sweet For Holiday Mornings. Yes, this is the busiest time of year for my Etsy shop and also for my family. Family birthdays begin in October and gather speed through November and December. It does seem like somewhere in the past there was some really poor planning! Now that the holidays are upon us, it is quite pleasant to slow down for a few days, stop fabricating and shipping, and try some old family recipes. Turn The Wedges On Their Sides And Top With Whole Pecans.

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FusedNTwisted: October 2011

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Thursday, October 13, 2011. I have wanted to write this educational post for a few weeks. Lately, friends have been offering me jewelry pieces that are thought to be sterling. Even the piece below, which was identified as a knock-off, was still thought to be sterling. It is not. But, you say, it is stamped .925- it must be sterling! Tiffany Knock Off Sold On Internet. Silver" Chain Before and After Use of Torch. It seems important to understand the misuse of the quality mark since precious metals now sel...

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FusedNTwisted: June 2012

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Thursday, June 28, 2012. Learning the Hard Way. Copper Cuff With Silver. Some weeks are more productive than others. Every week brings something to learn. I love it all- the easy learning and the hard learning. This was a week filled with lessons learned the hard way- by making mistakes. Basic Argentium Sterling Silver Collar With Sterling Focal Piece. Argentium Sterling Silver Collar. Sterling Silver, Heavy Prong Set Druzy Collar. I will never, ever touch Argentium sterling again when it is red hot!

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FusedNTwisted: No Resolutions For Me

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Sunday, January 1, 2012. No Resolutions For Me. I often approach things differently from other people and New Year's Resolutions have just never made sense to me. I prefer to keep goals for the New Year small, bite size goals that build to a crescendo of satisfaction somewhere around the last three months of the year. A friend shared the following on facebook recently:. Woodie Guthrie's New Years Resolutions 1942. Woodie knew how to break things down into simple bites that could be accomplished! There wa...

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FusedNTwisted: Becoming An American

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Saturday, October 1, 2011. September 27, 2011 was a special day and I want to tell you about it. It probably isn't connected to metalsmithing but it did affect me and in that way, it was connected. A Fraction of the 1,232 Candidates For US Citizenship. The Wall of the Paramount Theater. We were not bored while waiting for the ceremony to begin. The Wall and Ceiling of the Paramount Theater. I almost stayed home and worked on some bracelets today but I'm so glad I didn't! New American- One of the Best.