2/05/08
I have been doing a lot of rethinking about the Website.
For a while I had been thinking of just eliminating the shopping
cart as so many of the top people seem to be doing.
However, I have decided to show only certain lines of what we
do. we will be introducing the ByPass Rings and
Interchangeables and I am putting some woven pendant online
also. I hope to have this up within a week.
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2/09/08
 Rings
I have been playing with the idea of woven rings for
some time now and even bought one of Eni's tutorials on the
subject. It is very well done, but I only actually
read one page then decided to take off on my own.
Honestly haven't read the rest of it and that is mainly
because I didn't want to be influenced in my quest for
something interesting beyond a basic structure, which was
right along with what I had been planning.
The photo on the right shows the structure of the
interior of the ring, but you really can't make out a lot of
what is going on. These do take a lot of time, but
most of the time has to do with just looking and
experimenting to see what to put where next.
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2/12/08
 Scarab
Ring
This is the second large ring. I am working out
some less involved woven rings, but this will be one of
those that takes a lot of thought and time. The scarab
is actually a ceramic bead.
If I can remember to do it, I will try to get several
in-progress pictures up to show how the development happens
- I have some ideas, but you never quite know if those will
work out.
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2/17/08
 Woven
ByPass Rings
I have been developing a line of ByPass rings. So
many people have enlarged knuckles and can no longer wear
their rings, so I thought these might be nice for them.
Here are a couple of the newer ones.
The weave is getting a little more even now and looking
much better. I still have a long ways to go.
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2/19/08
  We
have needed cards for quite some time now because the
information has changed. We have new website and email
addresses and I added the landline phone.
Our work has diverged so much that we will each have
separate cards now. Don's photographs are not yet
ready, so mine are being made now and we will do his as soon
as we find a photograph that is just right.
I had a little trepidation about having a vertical card, but
decided I would give it a try this time. It is to be
satin on one side and matte on the other
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2/20/08
 This
is a new woven ring with two stones. It took a little
different approach with a similar technique. I am trying
to writ e
a tutorial on how to do this ring so I am trying to come up with
some variations.
This one has different lines and almost latches. These
rings are not for constant wear, but for special occasions.
It also contours to fit the finger on the inside of the
hand. You can see this with my stubby little hands.
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2/23/08
 Blue
Skies and Golden Rainbows
Variations on a theme has me pushing the Woven Wave
ByPass Ring in more directions. I have about 4
more planned at least to put on the tutorial as ideas.
Have been having some problems with my camera, but I
think I figured it out. So maybe I can go ahead
and do the tutorial now.
I spent much of the day working on Don's website
because the link came out in the magazine, so here I am
with not much of a website at the link. Missing an
opportunity.
We are working over the next couple of days to try to
get some photos on the site and taking an entirely new
approach by doing portraits of the pieces with natural
"stuff".
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2/25/08
Have spent much of the last 3 days working on the working on
a tutorial for the Woven Wave ByPass ring. I have sent it
to two friends to see if it makes a bit of sense to them.
It is very hard to know whether it is good or not, so I am
thinking that other eyes can see if the questions are being
answered.
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