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If any of you are like I am when I travel, you gather hoards of trinkets and treasures along the journey’s path. What to do with those reminders of wonderful times once you get home? Don’t stash things away in the back of a drawer, forgotten along with odds and ends; come spend the day with me working on jewelry techniques that will teach you how to assemble all sorts of charms and mementos, natural and man made – sticks, stones, leaves, dried flowers, beads, special fabric snippets, paper memorabilia – into a wearable piece of art that you’ll treasure forever. This is a technique intensive workshop that covers many many resources and approaches to free spirited jewelry construction. You will learn many, many various jewelry (and mixed media) techniques, with emphasis on thin stone, shell, and stick drilling/grooving, both with the dremel and hand drills, as well as the “Nina knot” wire wrapping for necklace links and clasps; we’ll also review mica work and metal engraving. You’ll come away at the end of the day with a necklace constructed of found objects and memories that you’ve brought from home and gathered at fort worden’s beach. In the months to come, be sure to tuck away special stones, beach glass, charms, and beads that you will want to use. This class can be taken separately as a one day class, but also fits with a series of three (book, necklace, box) if you wish to take a three day workshop at artfest with me.

Destination: Journey - Touch

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kit fee: $5       supply list

• A $5.00 kit fee, collected in class, includes a small bit of mica, a copper rectangle for imagery and/or words, and use of diamond drill bits and dremel engraver that I’ll provide.
  
  
• Materials to bring from home:
  
  
• bent needle-nosed pliers, round needle-nosed pliers, and wire snips (all small sized)*
• small hammer, and small bench block* if you have one
• cutting helix pad to prevent marring table surface and to absorb hammering
• assorted junk chain; mismatched odd lengths are fine
• 15 feet 20 gauge wire; if ordering silver, be sure to get dead soft; copper is a much cheaper alternative*
• fisker’s hand drill, if you have one (can be found at michael’s in the sewing section); I’ll bring mine, as well as small clamps for securing item to table while you drill
• dremel, if you have one; universal chuck to go with said dremel. This can be purchased at any huge hardware store such as Home Depot or Lowe’s for about 8.00. I’ll bring my dremel, and I’ll provide use of
• diamond drill bits (stone and glass drilling)
• metal ruler
• masking tape, small amount
• assorted small treasures, i.e. THIN stones (please, no big ones as they take too long to drill and will wear out drill bits), shells, THIN beach glass, beads, small bits of driftwood
  
  
• *all items with asterisk can be easily ordered from volcanoarts.biz, via paypal. Please, do NOT wait until right before artfest to place your orders, so that Christine will not run out of supplies and you are forced to come empty-handed to class. Thanks! I will request help at the first of class from three or four willing students to help arrange tables into small circles so that I can go from “station” to “station” to assist each of you during the workshop.

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is a self-taught jewelry and mixed media designer living in the beautiful western mountains of north carolina... single mother of two nearly grown wonderful young men (robin, a junior in college and roy, a freshman), and companion to aspen, the wonder-springer spaniel (13 years).