Happy February

I nice thaw is coming - at least giving us a little break from the snowy and cold winter.  Curtis and I have been setting up and rearranging our metals studio.  A new rolling mill and workbench arrived from Santa and it has taken us some time to work out a new layout.  I LOVE our new rolling mill....well if you can love a cold steel object!

 A new necklace- a piece of copper I patterned, forged into a tube, drilled and patinated. I attached a fresh water pearl, etched glass and turquoise beads on spiraled wires through the tube and hung all this with copper chain.  There are links of beads interspersed in the chain that I did not show in the picture.  Curtis also bought me a photo studio tent with lights to take better pictures of my jewelry.  As you can tell I'm still working on accomplishing that feat!