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In all the 2026 newness, I am happy to report that casting and I are getting to know each other.  I've been sitting on an entire casting studio si...

Hi there friends.  It's been a minute since I've written much of anything. It's a funny thing to be IN DEEP.  I have been lovingly trying to embr...

I've been holding these cards close, but April is finally here, and I have a great big exciting announcement!  For the Month of April, I'm being h...

  What is the saying about March?  I think it was Sylvia Plath.   'In March, I'll be rested, caught up, and human."  This season could not ring mo...

    The Walk  ... I wanted to embody spring but the snow kept coming. The sun kept hiding and I couldn't wait for green. So I made my own verdant ...

In all my time as a metalsmith, I’ve never been so good at big collections. Especially ones that felt important.  But I’m getting there with this...

  BIG FAT EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!  I am opening my 2025 books for CUSTOM work for the first time, officially, ever. Custom work: She’s a hard nut f...

... In October of this year, I crawled into the bogs of the family lakeshore, hoping to create an image I had been dreaming of for nearly the ent...

These words are from December 2022, last holiday season, when a fellow smithy was rudely reprimanded online for her lack of inventory during a holi...

    ... The Wait ... I wanted to embody spring but the snow kept coming. The sun kept hiding and I couldn't wait for green. So I made my own v...

It takes the time it takes.    I went to bed after reading a post from a fellow MT smithy last night feeling very frustrated and sad about the sta...

    For the month of October, I took up a challenge offered by a sweet little Watercolor Shop in San Francisco, CA that I happened to follow onlin...