Tien’s blog

After two days of solid work, I have completed my oeuvre.  Sadly, I have no sunlight to photograph it in at the moment, so you’ll have to settle for two not-too-good photos of it.  The first shows the glow of the carnelian cabochon, but is overexposed due to the flash; the second doesn’t show the [...]

Mike and I spent yesterday in the jewelrymaking intensive, where I’ve been having a great deal of fun making a shawl pin out of a large (1.5″) carnelian cabochon.  I’m setting it in a silver bezel (silver bezel wire is all they’ve got), on an eight armed “sun” made out of brass and copper.  Should [...]