ordinary into something extraordinary and nine to five is the industrial stamp for silver sterling silver is an alloy of silver and copper it's ninety two point five percent silver and seven point five percent copper oh great thank you you've been a metal smith now you've been teaching for over thirty years yes this is your first shop in belmont yes and it's your first shop ever but it happens to be about once an and you open exhibit her work and i started listing a few shops in the boston area and then i looked at her and i said oh let's just open our own shop and her eyes got very wide and we met for you yes one of the products you have besides jewelry we have contemporary jewelry and other fine crafts including fiber arts like the piece i'm wearing scarves woodworking we have some beautiful hand crafted shelving glass hand blown glass and beautiful ceramics we have both sculptural and functional ceramics and then we have one artist from arlington who does beautiful fel wall sculptures so we have quite a variety of i can't believe i've you know i think i've tried to be in every shop at belmont but i've never visited us but as soon as the show is over i will i will be and you're open tuesday through saturday one of the things that you're interested in doing is is in for example wedding wedding custom wedding bands in wedding sets i guess right now the engagement ring and in the wedding  a we have over ten artists who do beautiful handcrafted weddings sets including myself and my partner and so someone could could come in and start from scratch and we could design something for them or if they have a stone from a grandmother or great grandmother and they want to repurpose the stone we could design something that humans uses a stone that they already have fantastic  twenty artists most of whom i've known for years because i've been doing making things for over forty years and so i asked many of my friends if they would help us in this venture and we started showing my colleagues but now we actually represent over fifty artists many of whom are local new england and then we have just a few from further field very interested and it's not the kind of place that has a lot of competition because i think that you have a fairly unique of very unique actually yes we don't have anything that's manufactured except for watches but even the watches come from a local company which is located in bedford but everything besides the watches everything else in the store is hand crafted how expensive is something here and crafted versus simple it's doable we have sterling silver jewelry that starts at twenty eight dollars a well and we have gifts that actually start at eleven but the jewelry that's great three three years almost three years yes and we looked we looked at real estate in concord we looked and the south end of boston but i was familiar with belmont center i went in and spoke with erica at thirty puddles and she at the time she'd been there for eighteen years and she was very happy with her location so i thought well this is a good vote of confidence you know she's has a successful business that's been here for a long time and i knew at the time there wasn't anything available in the center but kirstie and i were walking up and down the street and when we got to the burke land company i jokingly christie this is an office i said let's go in and kick him out and we walked in and we started talking to brian burke and within a matter of minutes he said you're just what i'm looking for would you like to have this space i'm moving i just bought another building and i'm moving so we felt as if the stars were aligned there's  which is bashar which is that it's just meant to be i met kirsty we had this idea we met brian burke the store was available and all the stars were aligned it was a tremendous reuse to have that particular