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How many times have you said to yourself, “I’d love to take my journal with me, but I don’t want to carry it?” Well now you can avoid carrying your journal AND take it with you! This little book is just the right size to wear around your neck and just pretty enough to be called jewelry. Students will totally fabricate the copper book with common hardware, copper sheet metal and “plumber’s tape.” A slight design variation on our original, all-metal, no-sew binding allows you to wear the book on a chain like a necklace. Decorated with your tin-type image, found objects, and glass beads, this little piece is sure to become a family treasure.

Necklace Journal

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kit fee: $15      supply list

• Please bring the following to class:

• tin snips (bulldog or notching style preferred)
• chain-nose jewelry pliers
• round nose pliers
• heavy duty wire cutters
• nutdriver set
• Phillips & flat head screwdrivers
• 1/16” drill
• disposable paint brush
• 16 pieces of 140# hot press watercolorpaper approx (5.75” x 3.75”)
• propane or butane torch (optional)
• objects, beads, headpins, jumprings
• one small tin type photo image (or other object to attach to the cover –3”t x 4”w maximum)




Kit fee $15 includes:

• instruction booklet
• copper sheets
• plumber’s tape
• binding hardware
• miniature mounting hardware
• clock chain
• closure chain
• closure beads / headpins

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live and work in Bakersfield CA. Thomas is a public school teacher and Romona works in the medical field. Their artistic endeavors have been featured in Somerset Studio magazine, and Signatures; and their microscope slide jewelry was featured in the Design Originals book: Simply Soldered. Thomas and Romona are teaching classes at an ever-growing number of national retreats as well as all over southern and central California. From their converted dining room, also known as 4 and Twenty Blackbird’s Artist Studio, Thomas and Romona express their eclectic visions in mixed media sculpture, jewelry, hand made journals, dolls, and other oddities with a special fascination for metal and glass. Finding much of their inspiration in classic literature, drama, and film, Thomas and Romona like to create wearable or functional objects in their imaginative and challenging workshops in which they bring their favorite stories to life as these “artifacts” and characters are transported from imagination into reality.