I'm excited to announce that the Art Jewelry Forum has commissioned me to create their Limited Edition Membership Pin for…

This month for the Sept/Oct issue of Lapidary Journal's Jewelry Artist, I am one of three artists featured in an excellent article by Sharon Elaine Thompson titled, "Leather, Paper or Plastic: Metalsmiths explore alternatives in jewelry". One of the best articles written from a phone interview, I was super pleased, not to mention having photos…

For those in the Bay Area, I will be giving an artist and business talk at the Marriott in Emeryville for the Bead Society of Northern CA, Tues, Jan 15, 7:30pm. Living LEGO®: From Museum to Market will give a behind-the-scenes look at how my exhibition creations come to fruition…

Harriete Estel Berman interviewed me this week for her Ask Harriete blog to talk about how booth display effects your sales at craft shows. Check it the post:…

Another Cleveland connection with fashion blogger, Allison Nottingham - we had a great conversation and she wrote this fun post on her blackOUT blog relating my jewelry to the trend of colorblocking in fashion.…

Nothing better than making the front pages of your hometown’s major newspaper! It only took me 15 years, but here I am featured as the Style &  Taste  cover story for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 11, 2012! Wonderful article, “Silver, gold, Lego: Precious links to the past are jeweler’s gems“ by John Petkovic – we had a long phone interview back last fall and it was definitely worth the wait. HUGE,…

Techie sites Gizmodo and io9 featured articles about my LEGO® jewelry!

Whirlwind upon whirlwind! Seems like just yesterday I was at the ACC Fort Mason show in my new "garden" store of LEGO® wonder! Well, this weekend you can find me for the first time at Artspan SF Open Studios for the Mission District Weekend 1. Ten members of the …

Tune in to Whaley Studios Metalsmith Benchtalk Radio podcast today, Sept 8 from 3-4pm PST. We'll be talking about the Metal Arts Guild SF's 60th Anniversary and the exciting…

Catching up on the books and magazines that my work has been published in this year:

Metalsmith Magazine Exhibition in Print 2011

The coveted issue of metalsmith, which I tried for years to get into and here I am, the Second year in a row, this time within the curator's…

Met this interesting student, Jeffrey Basile, at Craft Forward because of his killer sweatshirt, and the SF Chronicle used my photo in this Sunday's STYLE section. Check out the article on SFGate in SFunzipped…

This is your Brain on Craft  (image from Frank Wilson's lecture, Hand Made Minds in the Digital Age)

Can't believe just last week I was immersed in round-the-clock Craft for 3 days straight at CCA sponsored Craft…