I spend another evening learning all sorts of great jewelry making techniques from Melissa Muir. On this occasion, we both made fabulous (if I say so myself) copper earrings. We cut, folded, forged, soldered, pickled, and oxidized the metal and ended with these:
If you are anywhere near Melissa’s studio and want to learn more than you knew that you needed to know, I highly recommend taking one of her classes. If you don’t want to learn to make the jewelry, but would still like to wear it, check out some of her work.
In addition to learning jewelry making, I create fabulous (if I say so myself) glass lamwork beads. Check them out at Etsy or my Spawn of Flame website.