Happy almost the end of May! As the title suggests, I am a bit of a luddite and I wish I could just pop open my blog or my currently broken website and get to work. Maybe one of these days everything will be voice activated and the machine can figure out what you are asking and needing. I know in my heart that that day is coming soon and sometimes I just want to resist and keep things simple. Like paper and pen simple. Maybe an adding machine and a cordless phone, simple. It is easier to order on line but more real like the good old days which do not sound bad at all to me. ( except I do like the medical advances we have in our lives now )
Anyhow, my blog, of which I should write more often, is kind of like being in a small town. I like thinking I am talking with you face to face, meeting in my shop, asking about your family or friends, checking out the craft you are working on or giving the one on one brief help to overcome a stuck area on your project, to offer encouragement. I love my shops. We are 34 years old now and I hope to be doing this same thing in the same location for a bunch more years. If the good Lord is willing and the waters don't rise, to
One of my favorite things to make, rosaries.
drowning out literally Water Street.
Anyhow, I am posting a few pictures for inspiration now and will add more one of these days. Until then, know that I appreciate every single one of you and that my relationship with you as clerk and customer and friend to friend means everything to me!
An orthodox sterling cross cast by me.
A new mixture of brass beads and titanium infused hematite beads.
