A little explanation

My jewelry creations began with a love of rocks. Next came the thought: why keep a pile of rocks in my pocket if I could wear them around my neck in a fashion that pleased me. One day I woke up thinking that I wanted to make every component, every finding for each piece of jewelry, from the clasps to the ear wires to the chains. Give me any metal, any gauge, shape or size, and I would create something with it. What an optimist. I started ordering copper, brass, sterling, in wire, sheets, rods, tubes. I bought a metal puncher so I could punch out my own disks from the sheeting. I got a dapper to dome the pieces I pierced and sawed into abstract shapes. A tube bender I found was a great discovery. The UPS guy got to be my friend. I checked out every book on metalsmithing from the library I could find. We've got a great online library system here. I ordered so many books that a little message popped up telling me I was over my limit. So I sneaked into the bedroom, took my husband's library card and continued checking out books under his name. An obsession of sorts. Definitely should have mentioned what I did when he came home about a week later with a pile of over 30 books.