Category: Inspirations
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Nudibranchs: Inspirational Creatures
Nudibranchs continue to be inspirational creatures to me. The colors The colors all around them The shapes Their own personal adornments How they seem to reshape themselves They inspire me to create filigree bracelets
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2010 Calendar Picture
I learned the other day that three pictures of my work will be included in a 2010 Calendar published by the San Francisco Bay Area Metal Clay Guild. Today as the random picture generator flashed pictures by on my computer, I noticed the location that was an inspiration for one of the pieces. I’d chosen…
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Swirling Schools Video
Video taken on the dive that inspired the “Swirling Schools” necklace and earring designs.
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Creation from Inspiration
On a recent SCUBA dive, bottlenose dolphins kept a very large school of sardines swirling around us for the entire dive. The school moved around circling at different levels in the water and changed direction in all three dimensions. The amazing experience is something I wanted to capture in a jewelry design. Sitting on a…
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Sheet to Rocks
My recent experience in a chasing and repousse’ cuff bracelet workshop was very enjoyable. Davide Bigazzi is a great instructor; the three of us all learned a lot and two of us walked away with bracelets that were almost done. The other Sherry in the workshop finished hers! I spent the day after the workshop finishing mine.…
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Humpback Whales: Breaching and Singing
The picture of a humpback whale breaching was taken on a recent trip to a dive site. The underwater video from on one of our dives allows you hear the whale singing. We were underwater when this underwater earthquake hit. The quake was very loud underwater and reverberated unlike anything we’d heard and felt before.…