Thank you, Brittany Kress and Columbus Alive for giving me a mention in your article about the Eco Chic Craftacular! Here's a link to the article:
http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/features/stories/2010/05/20/window-shopping-eco-chic-craftacular.html?sid=108
Hope to see all of you there! I will be set up outside under my sturdy ez-up canopy rain or shine!

My trusty tool box is full of spoons, cut and ready to bend around into spiral rings! I can't wait to show them to everyone at the Eco Chic Craftacular this coming weekend. I'm working on as many as I can possibly make, since I almost sold out at my last show.
Here is the wooden stump with swage grooves carved into it. The stump is located at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center, a real jewel in our city! It is so much fun to transform an old, unwanted everyday object into beautiful jewelry! You can see the steel ring mandrel and rawhide mallet I use to bend the metal. The hammering part is really hard work!

My disc cutter was made by Pepe tools. I think they are in the Ukraine. Nice, hard steel punches and dies that cut perfect little circles for me over and over I roll the bowls of spoons out into flat sheets just right for flirty little earrings. Yea!

Here you can see the sheet placed correctly to have a circle punched out of it! One carefully placed blow of a hammer on the punch - and BANG! A perfect circle in seconds. That is why I love my disc cutter.

Enjoying the sunshine after a cloudy, drizzly Powell Market Day! Luckily, the rain stopped around 10:00 and started up again around 3:30, leaving nice window of opportunity for intrepid vintage hunters like myself. A big thanks to all my customers from last year who sought me out in spite of the weather! As much as I enjoyed the show, I am glad for a break until Eco Chic Craftacular on May 22. Aah, much needed rest and focus on making new pieces!

I just want to thank everyone at Capital University for making the Art at the Fountains event so much fun. The weather was gorgeous and I got such a warm reception for my work. Doing that show was surely a pleasure. Now, back to work! You gals bought almost all of my spoon rings! Can't thank you all enough.