I used the 16 gram package of silver clay today that the students will use in my Earrings! classes, and came up with the pieces shown in the photo. With the addition of findings and some beads, pearls, and crystals, this should be four or five pairs of earrings. I will finish and post the [...]
It took nearly a month for me to ‘recover’ from the frenzy of the holiday sales, then the vacation over Christmas and New Year’s. For the first week back, I mostly slept and rested (well, besides work full time) and tried to get over the shock of the very cold week. Yup, I was treated [...]
Earrings!
Design and construct silver earrings using precious metal silver clay which fires to .999 pure silver. On night one, learn the basics of working with metal clay, get ideas for earring designs, make the earring elements from the clay and prepare them for kiln firing. On night two, polish your pieces and combine with jump [...]