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3rd Class: Casting – Day 2

Friday, February 1, 2013

Today was the last day of classes for this year’s Winter Workshop at Rio Grande in Albuquerque.  For me, that meant the second day of the Casting Class with Phil Scott and Gregg Burgard (who has another web site out there too, for his beautiful glass art, but it is still trying to load in […]

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1st Class: Fold Forming – Day 2

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

So this is the first new post being actually put up on my jewelry blog here at The Orchid Blogs Network.  I hadn’t realized just how long I’d been neglecting it.  Good thing it’s not a plant.  I figure it’s appropriate that I don’t delay another day since I was in day 2 of Charles […]

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Gold Selling & Reconstituted Turquoise

Friday, October 16, 2009

My husband sent me this article on CNN (http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/15/pf/consumer_gold_cash/index.htm?postversion=2009101510?cnn=yes) that tries to warn the general populace to be careful when selling off gold to all the buyers who’ve sprung up over the last year.  I’ve heard of “Gold Parties” in my area, where friends of mine are selling off their gold over drinks and hors d’oeuvres […]

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