Sunday, May 6, 2012

You can't make more time

You can always make more things, more money, even more jewelry but you can't make more time.  At least I haven't figured out how to create extra time.  If someone knows the secret, please let me know.  I only have 3 weeks left at the New Approach School for Jewelers!  That is crazy to me because I have been so busy trying to fast forward these 12 weeks away from home and now I want nothing more than more time to learn.  I want to gain more knowledge, more insight and become more proficient and I definitely want more time to delay the inevitable decisions I need to make about my future employment. Oh well, I'll worry about jobs, income and creating my empire tomorrow but in the mean time, I have committed to making the most of my last 3 weeks of classes.  Last week, we had a guest instructor in and learned hand engraving - so cool!  I fell in love with it and know that I will figure out a way to incorporate hand engraving into my work.  We largely focused on natural patterns and scroll work, turns out that letters are actually fairly difficult to hand engrave, must be why machines have taken over most letter engraving.  Below are some examples of my hand engraving work. 
Add caption
Above is the traditional wheat leaf pattern usually found
on wedding/engagement bands

2 comments:

  1. Time does fly by so fast! It will all come together in the end. I just love that sunflower!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Looks awesome holly!! Lynn

    ReplyDelete