Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

  Yet another project from Hadar’s Architectural Jewelry Class!   This is a knuckle buster of a ring and believe it or not it is really comfortable to wear!   Great jewelry armor! This project was about building a hollow ring using a form.   Indentations for the fingers each side of the ring made it comfortable to wear.   I combined steel and copper to make a ring I love! I used a stainless steel oval soap for my ring’s form.   Several years ago someone gave me a rectangular piece of stainless steel to use after I cut onions or garlic.   I rubbed it in my hands like soap and sure enough…it took the smell away.   When I saw the oval bar in class, I had to use it!   http://www.focalprice.com/HJ135S/Hand_Odor_Smell_Remover_Stainless_Steel_Soap_Bar_Silver.html?utm_source=CS&utm_medium=GM_US&utm_campaign=CS_GM_US_HJ135S&gclid=CMeX9KCC67UCFY8WMgodZzwA_Q Someone else used a flat stone.   We put the 4 card thick clay halfway on the form making sure there was a way to

Thunderbird Supply is one of my favorite suppliers.   They have 3 stores (Gallup NM, Albuquerque NM and Flagstaff AZ).   My dad and brothers ordered from them also.   When I saw they had an in-store semi-annual sale, I put the date on my calendar and just had to go see it.   Saturday I asked Luana, my quilting and walking buddy, to go with me.   It’s a 2 hour drive from Prescott and we thought it would be a great outing!   We left about 8:30 a.m. and Thunderbird was our first stop.   As you can see it is a very clean well organized store.   They had all the things on my list and Kevan was very helpful showing me what I needed.   But it was one of those times where the picture story in my head was based on no reality.   I was expecting a big warehouse with people stumbling over themselves to get the best deals.   Maybe, I spent too much time at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show!   Kevan My Purchases I’m glad I went, met the people, saw the supplies and know that I will

Sharing my work from Hadar’s class with you is making me remember and document what I learned.   It’s a really good thing!   Details can be so easily forgotten.   In between assigned projects, I made a pair of earrings from a slab of copper and a slab of brilliant bronze.   When you really look the top layer of one earring is plain copper and the back layer of the other is textured bronze.   The pieces on the top layer started out as a single shape and I cut them to look like cracked mud.   (At least that is what dried cracked mud looks like here in the Southwest).   Since the two materials have a slightly different shrinkage rate the cracks became a little wider.   After I sanded and fired them, I polished them and made them into earrings.   These were fun and I’ll make other earrings in a similar style.   I also tried my square pliers and love what I can do with them. This pair of earrings sold before I could get them in my etsy shop!