How to solder (for jewelry purposes)

December 29, 2007

Finally and at last! My instructable on how to solder (for jewelry purposes) is complete.It’s pretty detailed and also includes that video which I posted in my previous post. So go check it out, leave a comment to say hi, and let me know what you think. If you’ve never made soldered jewelry before, perhaps […]

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Soldering video

December 12, 2007

Check it out, I made a short video of me soldering a pair of sterling silver earrings. It’s going to be part of a larger project which I’ll post about in a few days once it’s complete, but for now, check out the video and let me know what you think!

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Molecule Post Earrings

December 10, 2007

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Molecule Post Earrings set, originally uploaded by freeforged. Here’s a group shot of some post earrings from my Molecular series. They’re all soldered sterling silver with sterling silver posts and catches. This picture hasn’t […]

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Graduation

December 1, 2007

Graduation is approaching, and with it, the completion of my final two pieces of my Undergraduate career. Soon I’ll have pictures of my Golden Fleece brooch, as well as the pendants I have been blacksmithing from old files. The golden fleece is a combination of cuttlebone cast bronze and chased sterling silver. The pendants are […]

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Etsy.com in Newsweek Magazine!

November 21, 2007

Congratulations on Lusterbunny for her octopus cuff links making it into a gift guide in Newsweek this week! It’s awesome to see a fellow Etsian getting good publicity; it makes the rest of us look good too! You can check out the full gift guide here, or go to page 64 of the images to […]

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Casting

November 15, 2007

So it’s been awhile since my last post, oops. To be fair, I have been a bit busy learning a new technique – Cuttlebone Casting. I did not have any real previous experience with casting before, but for my current project I wanted to have an element that was cast with the cuttlefish bone method. […]

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Vital for life?

November 2, 2007

I gotta say, while a puffer fish on my toilet may not be Vital to my existence, it is pretty dang cool. Is it the bulb-by eyes? The slight smirk? The cheerful twist of the tail? All I know is that I want one, and considering the fact that it’s not only restricted to toilets, […]

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Better pictures… finally…

October 22, 2007

Finally, I’ve been able to get the pictures I took last week edited. At least, half of them. But one of the things I’m happy about is finally getting pictures of my enameled ray-gun and rocket ship pendants. It’s a series of copper pendants that have been enameled and then screen printed with images of […]

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Oh dear…

October 15, 2007

Check out the latest designer I’ve found on Etsy that makes me jealous. Right now I’m craving Cabin’s burned cork message board with, complete with matching tacks. It’s serene and almost regal, in it’s own way. Christmas is coming, and I’m working on my list. However, I can’t decide between the stag, or the chipmunk. […]

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October 14, 2007

Yay, I finally got a spot in the Etsy treasury list! Now everyone else can see the cool stuff I’ve found too. The theme I was going for was forged items, either cold-forged, like in jewelry, or hot-forged, like blacksmithing. Sadly, there isn’t a lot of blacksmithing on Etsy, so it was difficult to find […]

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