Creative Musings

Occasionally things go wrong when creating. I spent quite a bit of time making a little fox pendant, only to have it suffer a polishing wheel accident which caused it to warp a bit - and have a few small dents in the back. I wasn't sure whether to offer it for sale, or really what to do with it, but then a story came to me. A story that gave a much more fun and interesting reason for the warping than a prosaic polishing wheel accident. The pendant is being listed at a lowered price, and it…

There was a time when the earth was new. The air had a sparkle to it, and the waters ran fresh and clear through golden rocks.  The mountain tops glistened with snow and ice; the valleys were green and verdant.  A great river flowed from the mountains, through the valleys, and on to the ocean. On its way it turned and bent itself around rocky outcrops. One such bend became a deep pool where the water calmed, its flow slowed by a partial dam of rocks. In this pool lived Fish.

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I just can’t argue with a rock that wants to be fire.  I do try, but I never win. Here's more or less how it goes:

"You - yes you! …

I love the process of making jewelry, in some ways more than I like being finished with a piece.

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Mirabeth finished chopping potatoes and onions for the supper stew…

The cities of Alohong and Techazir had been at war for as long as anyone could remember, and for decades before that. No one knew how or why it began, but each year brought a new…