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The glass is a beautiful dichroic glass by Nancy Pealrman. I feel very lucky to have it to design for.  The photo is OK but the faceted stones are far more brilliant than the  photo. The glass, on the other hand, photographed beautifully. And, while the design is more detailed in life, the photo gives a good sense of it.

I was a serious pleasure to make.  It's about 2" high in very dark sterling silver. And is from the collection of Bayla Fine.

It's the first major stick pin design I've ever done and it worked out beautifully. I'm certainly going to design more in the future. I have a beautiful opal that will probably be next.

Today I was going over work for Chicago to decide which of may smaller designs I need to make. It's a reasonable amount of work but not scarey.

Also working on three rings with exceptionally lovely stones.  But I'll work on them separately from everything else. Design work in wax doesn't mix well with anything else.

I finished the flame tiger eye pendant and the bronzite pendant, both in bronze. They still need to be polished and set. It will be a while, but I'm looking forward to seeing these designs completed. The only problem with my technique is that it takes a lot of time in all stages. The wax carving, of course, takes the longest.

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This is the first tiger eye I've ever seen with internal flames. The photo gives a really good idea of the stone. The little bit of white is light reflection.

I'm working on the dichroic glass stick pin - it's going to take a while but I'm very happy with the direction it's going in. "A dichroic material is a modern composite non-translucent glass that is produced by stacking layers of metal oxides which give the glass shifting colors depending on the angle of view, causing an array of colors to be displayed as an example of thin-film optics." I'm very fortunate to have a few pieces of Nancy Pearlman's work.

I'm working on some new designs for Balticon. It's getting very busy.

I had cataract surgery for both eyes in the last 6 weeks and I am now finally back at work.

The "glacier" pendant will be cast this week in sterling, as will be a turquoise and bronze pendant. I had done a lot of work on them before the surgery and was finally able to finish them. It felt really good to be back at work.

I have been able to work on my Pandemic Shadow photographs and there is one of the newer ones below. I'm thinking about a pendant that will be a shadow design. It's a fascinating thought. there is usually very little cross over between my 2 art forms. The gallery for them is at https://www.instagram.com/laurie_toby_edison

I'm going to be working on a stick pin with a beautiful piece of dichroic glass. And I'm currently working on a tiger eye with flames in a pendant. I just got some marvelous new stones and if they photograph OK I'll be putting up some pictures.

The bird in the photo below is a cormorant. I've taken up bird watching during the pandemic, although it hasn't shown up in my jewelry yet.

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I've been looking at some of the stunning dichroic glass cabochons that I have. They were made by the remarkable glass artist Nancy Pearlman.

They are very hard to photograph because they have complex three dimensional color.  It's not possible to photograph all the vivid levels of the glass cabochon.

I'm trying to decide which one to work with of these two, and it's a difficult choice. I would set either one in silver (maybe black silver) and the design would emerge working with the piece. The stones are about 1.5" to 2". This is not a commission but a one of a kind designs for whoever loves it.

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I think I'll contemplate them a while longer. I love looking at them