Tired of the same old?

A quick entry to let you know about some new, upcoming classes.

I will be offering a class at Kirkland Art Center, called "Chain, Chain, Chain." Not surprisingly, we will make chains, specifically 4 bracelet length classic chains in 18 gauge sterling silver. The patterns will be classic flat chain mail, the double flower, the Byzantine and the foxtail.

During the summer at Munson-Williams-Procter in Utica, I will offer a 4 session intensive class called "Jewelry Hot and Cold," which will focus on developing more assured soldering skills and learning various cold connections, such as rivets. Part of each class will be spent practicing skills and part will be spent designing and fabricating a piece of jewelry that will require both hot and cold connection to complete.

Stay tuned right here for further information on dates and times. See my website, www.kissingdog.com also, for further updates of my teaching schedule.

Window to the Sun

In the cold, gray winter of Central New York, you can get to a point where you honestly believe you may never see the sun again. This is a rough place to live if you have Seasonal Affective Disorder.

These earrings I call "Window to the Sun." The hammered tops make me think of those heavy gray clouds, kind of flat and threatening looking, that so often inhabit the winter sky. All of a sudden, they can get a little hole in them and what do you know? There's the sun peeping through, reminding you that it really does still exist.

These are sterling silver, fine silver and use a Korean technique called Keum Boo, in which the 24K gold which comprises my "sun," is fused to the fine silver back sheet of the earrings.