There are only about 30 houses, and our post office is a redwood shack. The house stands at an elevation of 3,000 feet, meaning that winters last long. I used to wish hard work on myself and now I've got it, but the truth is, I'd rather be up here and out of wood in the dead of winter than back in the rat race doing what I used to do in San Francisco. The studio, with windows all along the sunny south wall, is equipped with a large table and two torches, with a kiln in the center on a lazy susan. Glass rods in vases, held upright by pebbles in the bottoms, decorate the room like bouquets of bright spring flowers.
Many beads end up as part of finished jewelry.
In this necklace, seven lizard egg beads are combined with nubbly silver beads, short lengths of silver chain, and an assortment of jade beads as accents. Guy Louis Selbert. I loved that, the fact that they didn't need a lot of finish work, like the carvings in wood and stone I'd tried to make years earlier. Although pleased with the results, he still wasn't satisfied. I began experimenting with matting solution.