A Class With Friends

a couple of weeks ago i travelled south

to teach a soldering class at a good friend of mine's home

sweet miss tiffany kirchner-dixon

aka the fancy farmgirl

hosted this class in her gorgeous studio

the technique that was taught was

"vintage mercury glass" pendants

in which the students went home with a necklace and a bracelet

involving this technique

class samples:

the beautiful airy studio of tiffany's

(all photos to follow were taken by the fabulous tiffany)

all the students final projects were AMAZING

lots of them had never soldered before

but you wouldn't know it from looking at their works of art

kathy used a high school picture of her mom

for the photo in her pendant

kathy had a stash of fabulous buttons

that i was secretly coveting

tiffany's wonderful necklace

love how she used the cream buttons and sari silk to finish hers off

for kathy's bracelet she used a picture of her son when he was little

it turned out charming

can you believe this student had never soldered before?

renee did an amazing job and i love how she added the tulle bows to her necklace

here is renee's bracelet

love her word she chose

i am sorry we didn't get photos of the other students works of art

some had to leave a little earlier than when class ended

the night before the class

we had a fun "girls night" with fabulous food and drink

"what happens in tiffany's studio involving pink champagne and moscow mules,

stays in tiffany's studio!"

i pre-stamped some metal for the girls

so that we could make cuffs

soldered on some large bezels in which they could choose what they wanted to put inside

my finished bracelet

(the silver solder on the cuff was a happy accident)

renee's gorgeous cuff

kathy's finished cuff

it is so "her" with the aqua flower

again, not everyone's projects were photographed

while i was pouring up the resin in the bezels

i also had a few belt buckles that needed more resin as well

just have to attach the wire linked belt to them and they will be good to go

again, thank you SO MUCH tiffany

for offering up your home for this class

it's always great fun meeting new people

and being inspired by what they create