As my twin just so happens to take photos of art jewelry (www.artjewelryphotography.com) I twisted his arm.  He had already given me the photos but I thought one turn deserved another...

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I received a package from Bob Ebendorf...…

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That's Arkansas.



Which just happens to be where I went recently to be a juror.



Coincidence?



Yours truly, Stevie B., along with Associate Professor Erica Spitzer Rasmussen (Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN) and Professor… Continue

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Surprise! When I heared the doorbell ring I did not expect it to be this book! I expected it to arrive sometime in September, at least that's when I heared it was to be mailed. Silly rumors. I've only quickly checked out the book, somehow finding the page my piece is on, but so far so good. Like Disney World a Lark 500 book needs at least a few days to see everything. Now if only I would finally receive some sort of news from the other 2 Lark books I… Continue

MAD had an open studio today, June 25: Peters Valley presents Harold O'Connor.



To be honest I haven't gone to many of MAD's offerings to it's members or the public. Most just didn't grab me, and to get me to go to anything you have to really grab me. I mean physically. With hands and arms and all the rest that go along with kidnapping someone for their own good.



This time it was quite different. I actually wanted to go.



I admire Harold O'Connor's work very much.… Continue

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The most horrid thing to do for most artists is coming up with that infernal and dreaded demon of all...COST! How does one do it? We have all seem the formulas. Time x Materials x Overhead x 2 = Wholesale x 2 = Retail, or some such variation. This works well with production work I guess, doing no production work myself, but it falls short when it comes to one of a kind work. Even if a formula worked, I couldn't really use it anyway for a variety of… Continue

While I do have my own blog over at http://steviebjewelry.blogspot.com/ I may blog here a bit from time to time. Like some sort of super secret blog that only crafthausers know of.



I don't even know if the word crafthausers is appropriate.



Hmmmm....



Craft junkies?



Naw.



I sort of like crafthausers, as in people that use the social network crafthaus. It has a ring to it. Not a particularly… Continue