Jewelry class

I was surprised when I started this English teaching job and they told me there will be a jewelry class here on Friday nights that I could attend. So I have been going to this class once a week, it is being taught by some people from a jewelry manufacturing company. We are doing wax carving. They know I was a jeweler, so they just let me work and don't bother me. We are making a ring for our first project. I am almost finished. Still need to refine the edges. It's been years since I carved wax. I enjoy it, but because I wasn't planning on carving wax when I came here I didn't bring my favorite wax carving tools.

Class at GRS soon

I'll be going to Emporia, Kansas in about a week and a half for the Advanced Stone Setting Class with Blaine Lewis at the GRS Training Center.  I'm really looking forward to it.  I've wanted to take that class for a few years.

Class at the GRS Training Center

I'm taking the Refined Stone Setting class at the GRS Training Center this summer in Emporia, Kansas.  I have been wanting to take this class for a long time.  I took a basic engraving class there in summer 2006 and enjoyed it.  I heard classes there are really popular and this stone setting class is only offered once a year, so I called to register right at 8am on the day registration started to be sure I could get in.  I checked their website a few hours later and the class was full.  I'm looking forward to this class.