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Wire wrap jewelry is, as the name implies, done entirely with wire. There is no solder. Each piece is constructed by wrapping and bending wires. The major tools used, are a variety of small jewelers pliers. A tackle box and accordion file can house an entire wire wrap business, a great plus for me, when I take my show on the road.

Wire wrap is perfect for those of us who think that "instant gratification takes too long". There are very few pieces that cannot be done in 45 minutes. After Ken (my husband) spend hours cutting and polishing this piece of Sugalite, I wrapped it in gold filled wire in about 20 minutes.

This was one of my first wire wrap pieces, and one of the few I have kept for myself. I was immediately attracted to this piece of Rainbow Fluorite when I found it at a gem show.

Like the piece above, this is the classic wrap that I teach in beginner classes.

When doing a craft show, I have about twenty different styles of bracelets, with many variations on each style. This simple bracelet is my favorite.

This prong setting for a faceted stone (Amethyst in this case) is the most difficult setting to do, because the measurements need to be so exact. and must be recalculated for each different stone. Although this ring only takes 45 minutes to make, I often end up spending 90 minutes, (if I get it right on the second try). I no longer teach this setting, except upon request, in the advanced class.

Pine needle basket stitched with sinew. Not one I teach in beginners classes. Although it is very simple, it takes a long time.

This faster basket from purchased splits is one I teach in class, although the majority of my baskets are made from whatever happens to be growing, or collectable, at the time of the class.

(Note, the coffee table the basket is on was a great yard sale buy at $3, plus the cost of the discontinued tiles I used for the top.)

Pipes. (For tobacco use only ;) ) On the left is a polymer clay pipe pin, this pipe has a brass bowl inset with cover (not shown). On the right is a clay pipe.

Hand made paper vase. Center and right images show detail and color of paper vase on left. The dried plants in the vase, were also used in the paper, along with celery, cattail fiber, 1995s cancelled checks, and cotton. Note the paper in the center picture, between the purple and blue. The paper is made from cattail fiber and cotton with some recycled paper. The same paper, was used for the background of this page.

Molded paper mache bowl. Painted and foiled. Measures approx. 8 inches wide.

Origami. Piece on left is seven inches square on top. Star box (on right) is three inches square at bottom. I cannot remember a time before I did origami.

I have marbled about anything that would fit in a marbling tray, including Deva, the Eskimo Spitz who fell into the tray. (Shown here sans marbling.)

This page is one that was linked to the first site I did in the beginning of 1997. Since then I have put approximately 1,000 pages on the web. Although all of the early sites were reworked many times as I learned, I never got around to changing this page.

I had decided to either take this one down or redo it but when I started to do that, I realized that I like seeing it the way it is. It is not a good example of a web page by any means, but it is good for me to look at the differences between this page and the ones I do now, especially on the days when new cgi scripts won't work right, my program modifications fail, and I feel like I have never learned anything and never will.

On those days it is good for me to look at this page and remember that when I did it I had never heard of a cgi script. I didn't know whether to save my images in GIF or jpg, or what difference it would really make. I didn't know what FTP was ( This page was originally published to AOL), and the local Barnes & Noble had 2 books on Internet Marketing, none on Web Design.

The only change I have made to this page, was to add this text and to trim the graphic files a bit. It is still about twice the size I would allow from the students I now teach web design to, but it is a bit smaller than the 265k that it was originally.

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