Who🙋🏻‍♀️: Anyone whos want to play with metal
What⚒️: Let’s make a pendant together!
When🗓: Sunday, January 7, 2024
Where🔥: Adam’s Forge, Simi Valley

Thanks to Adam's Forge's adventurous spirit, my can't-stop-talking-about-metal obsession, and all my brave guinea pigs' input, the very first metal workshop taught by yours truly is happening!!⁠

In this workshop, you’ll design and create a layered pendant with simple sheet metal fabrication! Students will learn about the basic jewelry making hand tools, the nature of non-ferrous metals, and foundational techniques including sawing, texturing, riveting, and finishing.

Support artists and crafters in local community who make their own work by hand, along with Remainders’ mission of creative reuse and sustainability!

Come find all sorts of knitted accessories, sewn accessories, sewn toys, upcycled clothing, ceramics, paintings, handmade/fabricated jewelry, zines, felted sculptures, baskets, paper arts, prints, embroidery, and more!

Get a head start for some in-person holiday shopping, join me at The Patchwork Show at the Marine Stadium Long Beach and shop handmade and local goods from 75+ local makers. FREE to attend! 

Every year Metal Arts Society of Southern California, or MASSC members get to participate in this fun challenge, where we each get a package of raw materials, and we have to use each one of them somewhere somehow in the piece.⁠ ⁠

These are what came in this year's package and what I turned them into:⁠
Copper sheet → book pages⁠
Copper gallery wire → snail's eyes⁠
Silver bezel wire → cigarette ashes and snail's shell⁠
Brass nails → snails' eyes⁠
Silver tubings → binding rings and snail's body⁠
Rose quartz → snail's shell⁠ ⁠
Addition material: more cooper sheets for 1 extra book page and the other snails' bodies⁠ ⁠

The idea came from children books, the kind where you push the same fuzzy plushie which becomes different things as each page dresses it differently. I always thought it is a very fun and neat idea and now I have created my own version of it!⁠ ⁠

Dedicated to the lost child in you all.
Hey, the answer isn't elsewhere, it is within the resourceful, powerful and magical YOU!⁠ ⁠ Cheers!⁠
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Can’t wait to see what everybody else came up with! Join me!

🍺 Pints in the Pines🌲 in the beautiful woods of Idyllwild is happening!! I mean, what is better than shopping handmade, seeing live art and music, breathing in the scent of pine with a cool beer in your hand?

Rockhaven was founded in 1923 as a sanitarium to be run by women for women with mild mental and nervous disorders to give them a chance to recover.

The City of Glendale owns the property and recently received state funding to open the park. 

Friends of Rockhaven was formed in 2013 to help make this park a reality. They got the property listed on both the State and National Historic Registries. They are planning to be able to be the ones who operate the museum, and hope to be a strong enough organization to have a say in what happens in the park, and maybe even operate it.

To help raise funds and awareness they are having a Women’s Art Fair at St Luke’s of the Mountains in La Crescenta, and I am thrilled to be part of it.
Join us and enjoy the beautiful rock structure designed in 1924 with ample space in an auditorium and a lovely patio, and shop for a wonderful cause.

For more information, visit https://www.friendsofrockhaven.org

So very thrilled to be selected to be one of the showing artists at this beautiful garden for an incredible cause! Come take a stroll and take in the nature’s eye candy in the glorious spring!! And more importantly, support Creative Arts Group to continue to offer enriching classes, education, and artistic experiences to our school children, individuals and families with high-quality instructors and fees that are affordable for most.

Join Creative Arts Group for the 28th Annual Garden Tour that will lead you through four stunning gardens that capture the diversity of our Southern California landscape.

Advance tickets can be purchased online, over the phone (626-355-8350) or in person at Creative Arts Group for $40 until Saturday April 15th at 2 pm. All advance ticket sales will be emailed to you. 

Day of the tour tickets (April 16) can be purchased in person for $45 at Creative Arts Group, or online to be picked up will call at the first garden. (The confirmation email will provide the address.)

Celebrate the holiday season with free family-friendly activities, live music, food and drinks, art workshops for kids, and an arts and crafts sale.

Never have I ever thought I’d be invited to do a jewelry making demo! Crossing that off of my bucket list, peoplel! On Sunday November 13th, join me and a whole gang of save-the-beautiful-lost-art-form advocates, and enjoy a day of watching artists do their magic up close! It is a free event, come one, come all~! I’ll be greeting you behind my safety goggles! See you there🥰

Check out the newest Patchwork Show location in Old Town Tustin! This outdoor show takes place in the Farmer’s Market Lot at 245 El Camino Real surrounded by historic buildings, shops and restaurants.

Event and parking maps as well as a list of craft activities and special experiences will be posted below a few weeks before the show.

It's been a while since I've done any live streaming. Well, I'm still very much alive so let's hang TOMORROW AT 11AM - we'll see! Watch me work on some new shroom designs while you have lunch!⁠

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To join the live stream, tap the button below!

Saturday, 2 pm — 7 pm

The Whimsy, Old Town Pasadena
40 Mills Place
Pasadena, CA 91105