Contrast is essential. - We know joy because we also know sadness. We know connection because we also know solitude. We know quiet because we also know noise....
I never tire of people bringing me little handfuls of gold. Broken chains. Old rings. Some even have their names in script lettering (yes, the 1970s happened). That amazing warm metal from the earth can be...
Can you remember a time when you really put yourself out there? Or, maybe a day when you woke up and got busy with something for which you'd spent weeks and months and even years considering and preparing? That's what the last year has been like for me. This year brought...
I hope you'll forgive me for reaching out of my area of expertise for a moment...
The winter of 2016 will go down in GMA history as the season of the stretch. After more than two decades of selling my work directly to my retail clients (custom and otherwise), I stretched myself during the last year to: put together a wholesale collection around the...
Dressing up my showroom for a holiday show with Christmas tunes and twinkly lights is how I know. It's how I know the holiday season has arrived. ...
Hanging from the leather strap around my anvil stump is a simple planishing hammer. It's one of many, many hammers in my studio. But, this one is in my top five. It would be difficult for me to pick a single favorite hammer, but I do...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_6006" align="alignright" width="300"] The Bianchi Family - my client Bess is the infant in her grandmother's arms.[/caption] Decades ago, an infant American girl received an 18-karat gold bracelet from her grandmother, from Argentina. As she grew, she became aware of the bracelet, held by her mother...