I updated my website.

It has my new work and now hopefully looks nice in all (or most) browsers.

Of course, let me know if it doesn't.

www.shirabrooks.com

ceramic & metal

Trying not to break the sawblades

Piercing out the settings in copper....

I'll never be your pizza burning.

I've been making brooches with ceramic textures.

Here are some templates for the backs of the brooches.

Next I have to saw those shapes out of copper for the backings.

I love how they look before they're put together. All those lines poking out will be prongs to hold the ceramic pieces in place. They'll be bent up and over the clay. But I can't help loving how they are right now. They're awkward and pokey and look like a bunch of weird amoeba with cilia.

I've also been making a lot more bracelets,

with more variety in sizes and glazes.

Here they are before firing.

They're going in the kiln tomorrow.

And, of course, no project is complete without "help" from the cat.

This is what happens when she decides to get a little too hands on. Or tail on.

Jess should rename her "Cruella Deville" or "Stacey London".

All I've got is mud on my knees.

I'm making jewelry out of dirt.

Ceramic bracelets, with glazes that make me happy it's spring...

Why I'm in love with Richmond...

The James River

It's possibly the dirtiest "clean" river I've ever seen.

And it's so beautiful.

I'm really enjoying these panoramic photos.

It's such a good way to capture how gorgeous it is.

You can click on them to see the larger versions.

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If you think the panoramics are cool,

you should check out these stereographic projections.

This one's my favorite:

I hit the rowdy road, and many kinds I met there.

SPRING MEANS:

panoramic photographs at Belle Isle