antique + tool + Max = perfect Valentine

My most wonderful husband, Max, just got home from a working trip to Vienna. He had told me on the phone that he had found a wonderful shop and was bringing something home for me.

Well, this morning he handed me a fairly heavy box and said this was my early Valentine's gift (and we don't even do Valentines...). You cannot imagine my delight (well, maybe you can) when I saw what was in the box.
It is antique. It is a tool. It is gorgeous. Swoon. It is an old small rolling mill for wire. For square wire. I am smitten.

I do truly think I have the most fantastic husband in the whole wide world. Thank you, Max!!!!

New tool and rethinking

I know - you thought I had fallen off the planet. It has been awhile since I posted. Sorry about that! I have been trying to figure out where I am headed - re-evaluating what I have been doing and where I want to go with my jewelry. Will have to wait and see if all this thinking has gotten me anywhere.


Then, the other evening, my rotary tool died - and left me sitting in my studio in the dark. With a cat underfoot. Not a good combination. Anyway - I went out and got a new rotary tool.

My new hanging motor with a flexible shaft! I hope this will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

I have also been thinking about my jewelry photos - I want them to be better, more evocative...

Trying something new - different perspectives, different backgrounds.

A pair of earrings in the works: silver, copper and peridot.