Happy Saturday!

Thursday was my first day attending Hadar's metal clay workshop. I'm loving it so far! I tried another one of her Collage of Texture pendants and this time got to use both bronze and copper. Here's a picture of the finished result:

The bail had been longer than is is now, but the right side of it had a huge dip in the side that needed to be taken out, which also meant shortening the other side...so it's got a smaller bail than intended.

I'm working on some heart earrings that will be movable, and a pendant made from bronze and filled with a copper design next.

I got to talk to Hadar about my previous firing issues, and she thinks that it's complications with heat circulation (I have a larger pan), and that the carbon may be bad. So some time in the future I'm going to try replacing these and re-running test pieces to see if there's a difference.

This was my first time ever going to Berkeley. It's a neat little town. Oh and sorry to my friends who expected silly hippy pictures, there were none along the way...but LovEvolution (seriously, when are they gonna find a name that works?) will more than likely have it's share of them!