Blood, Sweat and a Second Degree Burn
We now return you to your usual programming after a week’s vacation. Well, I’m not sure if you can really call a vacation a vacation when it consists of spending 11 hours every day in a veritable sweat shop! But I took a week off from work to take an intensive jewelry making workshop. I figured it was time to learn how to solder and make bezels and set stones and weave chain and all that good stuff.
All good stuff indeed! I annealed and quenched, I dry-fluxed and soldered, I wielded a torch. What more could a girl ask for? That was the good part. The not-so-good part? The second-degree burn on my left index finger from accidentally grabbing the lid of the kiln with my bare hand… The various scrapes from too much filing and sanding… The backache from sitting at the bench for 11 hours a day!
But I finished the week with some new skills (not to mention new safety tips), four rings, three bracelets (including the granulated cuff below), an enamel pendant that took two and a half days (!), and a lovely new scar on my finger. Ah, I’ll wear them all proudly!
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July 25th, 2007 19:37
That’s a great cuff!
August 17th, 2007 09:38
So where are you??
October 16th, 2007 18:47
I miss your posts!
November 1st, 2007 13:32
Me too! Where have you been?
November 3rd, 2007 02:20
What’s keeping you busy? I miss your post.
November 12th, 2007 07:04
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March 20th, 2008 13:34
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