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Haven’t been able to sit down and do much silver stuff, and I’ve been down lately, and when I got the chance tonight I melted through my first prong setting. Again. So I dug out an orbicular jasper cab I bought in February and went back to bezels.

She’s rough, and the solder on the decorative wire went walkabout at some point, but I really like this cab and making this pendant made me happy. I’m going to wear it to work tomorrow.

Make bad art yall 🫡

PS shoutout to the chopstick that played the part of my bezel pusher and burnisher, because those went walkabout too.

Mother’s Day is next weekend, and I made my mom a gift.

Once, I asked her as a young child to draw me something. She drew me a version of this “Snoopy” head. As she tells it, after she showed me the drawing, I looked up at her and said “can’t you do any better?” 😅😂

She still loves to tell that story (I’m in my 30s), and to her it was one of the first signs I’d be some kind of artist (I’m a photographer and videographer by profession, silversmith by recent hobby). I adapted her sketch to work as a closed pendant for durability. I think she’ll really like it!

The first wire version is a copper test version. The next two are silver, but I overheated them and blobbed out the wire where the eye meets the head. I used a different construction method for the third attempt, and it worked well.