Tuesday, May 13, 2008

because

Because I need something to cheer me up.
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sigh.

Friday, May 02, 2008

poetry

This is some poetry. First time writing by my friend Bill G. Just got him interested in reading and writing poetry. Not bad for a middle aged man who hasn't written poetry since elementary school.

The air is chilling
The wind is blowing
The autumn leaves are falling
Soon the snow will be falling
On one cold snowy. blowing. day.
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The moon is shining bright
The stars are twinkling tight
But still it's a vey dark night
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God knows the soul
God knows the heart
God also knows the mind
But can you call him yours?
I can call him mine.
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you asked me for ten dollars
then you asked me for a dollar
then you asked me for a quarter
then you fretted for a dime
Why?
I told you I have no money.
not even a penny.
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And those are Bill's first 4 poems. I'm impressed.


until next time.

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Going back to kindergarten

Ok. So I've learned to solder, forge, cast, pickle, pierce, saw, dap, mill, set, bezel blah blah blah. I've accidentally electroplated a nickel silver box in pickle solution by using steel wire for the spiral hinge I made (gasp a pleasant surprise for me but not necessarily anyone else who used that batch of pickle sorry folks. I made a good bezel for a ruby cabochon then proceeded to melt the bezel in the microtorch. I never did learn when to let it alone. Then I thought of my little blue bag sitting patiently in my studio across the hall from my bedroom. The original tools of my trade. A pair of cheap needle nose pliers, crimping tool, plastic wire jig, dollar flush cutters, spools of cheap but perfectly serviceable wire from Walmart's craft section and trays and trays of beads. At least 5 sectioned craft boxes worth of them. Mostly glass, some metal, mixed in findings a few chinese porcelain ones (not many f those left one recently found it's way to the end of a piece of yarn for a string on my ceiling fan). They have been cat toys as well (wood floor + glass bead = happy cat). They are so versatile but I forgot to make a place for them. It's like forgetting about the finger painting or the crayons from kindergarten and moving up to high school art and using neither anymore.....but some of the best contemporary jewelry I've seen lately uses both...I've been to busy to remember my roots. Time to go back to Kingdergarten and stop feeling like a failure when I mess something up in jewelry class.