Cold Connections Class

I taught a Cold Connections Class yesterday - this was the class project:

copper pendant

This is the pendant I made back in October as a demo for yesterday's class. We had 3 wonderful students in the class yesterday, and their pendants are all beautiful, and unique, as they all used different stamps for etching, different hammers for texturing, and different patterns and metals for the woven portion.

2 of my students: that's Karin, of Backstory Beads, on the left, and Stephanie on the right.

Materials table: tools, acid, Liver of Sulfur

I put all the tools and chemicals on one table, separate from the students' workstations - the classroom suddenly gets very small when we fill it with people (!), so it's good to be able to keep this stuff out of the way when you're working.

Students' work table

Bailey and his purple monkey snooze through the class

Everyone had a great time, and learned a lot!

And note to my friend Deborah up in Canada: it was 75 degrees and sunny here yesterday - just gorgeous! Sorry you missed it!

Copper Pendant

This is the copper pendant I made yesterday:

I want to be able to offer a "Mini-Metal" workshop, as an alternative to the 3-day workshop I normally teach. I wanted to include as many skills as I could in one project - and this one has quite a few! I needed to know all materials I'd have to pull for the pendant, and how long it would take a beginner to make - and I think this will be a great class!

This class will be offered Sunday, December 2 (10 AM) at YaYa Beads, Augusta, GA - check it out! We'd love to have you in the class!