Have you heard about the latest advancement in fashion statements? You have if you’ve seen my Bubbe Pins™. These are a recent development inspired by findings offered by Rings and Things. The findings are sturdy metal bobby pins with 10 millimeter pads soldered on at the round end. They envisioned people gluing and lightly soldering [...]

Like many bead weaving artists, I like to incorporate various stones and crystal jewels in my work. I have included many of these in their forms as beads and only occasionally in their forms as cabochons and faceted jewels. Among the first was a beautiful teardrop shaped agate which I used in a commissioned piece, [...]

What a week it’s been from Internet and phone connection problems to engineering new ways to bezel stones and jewels to get the look I want to classes I’m teaching ending and starting. I’ve got so many tabs open in my Opera browser I can’t even tell which one is which. And I did not [...]

Do you like to take surveys? I thought it would be useful to create a survey for this week’s Wednesday weblog post so I went out and researched possible survey software candidates. It took a lot longer than I anticipated to find one I liked and when I did, I installed the software and opened [...]

It rained today. The sky was blue and sunny and then completely overcast in the afternoon. It rained tiny droplets. A quiet rain that moistened the ground then disappeared and now the sun is out, dropping towards the horizon. Google asks, “Are you feeling lucky?” I typed in “raindrops” and hit enter. The first site [...]

Well known art and craft jewelry supplier Rings & Things has added an interesting new line to their findings lines: metal bobby pins with 10 mm diameter smooth round pads. They advertise them for soldering and gluing but I had the idea of using them for a bead weaving base. I contacted the company via [...]

Very few wedding dresses can be used for anything else and given the variety of tastes it is a longshot to expect one’s daughters or granddaughter will want (or be able) to wear one’s dress. Instead of hiding this gown in a dark box rarely if ever opened, do something special with it. There are [...]

Silver Dragon’s Treasury Picks This Week’s Theme is Time Bathtime – Bas-relief carved soaps from neatTreats on Etsy. Bedtime – Patchwork quilt from QuiltLover’s shop on Etsy. Tea Time – Chai tea kit from cookoutsidethebox’s shop on Etsy.

Mothers Day is coming up and, for me, it is one of the high points of Spring. In my family, we always made a big thing of it, doing our best to make the whole day special. I don’t think that’s changed much over the years, and certainly the idea of giving our mothers, grandmothers, [...]

As some of you may know, not only am I an artist-entrepreneur, but I also teach university level astronomy and physics. At Quinnipiac University I am teaching a lab for an overview of physical science course. We cover physics, chemistry, geology and astronomy. The main campus is just across the street from Sleeping Giant Park, [...]