[Jewelry making - Article 00046] - Re: [Orchid] Jeweler's former lives

[Paris-Stamm]

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Hi there,

    I started out as personal secretary to an architect, and then a
    quantity surveyor in South Africa, and then a lawyer in London. Then
    14 years as a masseuse for my husband's practice as a chiropractor.
    Did an around the world trip by air. Wonderful. 

    Remarried and sailed around the world in a Tri-maran for 12 years
    with my late husband. This was such a character building time and I
    loved meeting so many diverse people and looking at so many different
    cultures. Took a two day class on silversmithing when in Australia
    and loved it. 

    On arrival in the USA we disovered my husband had cancer and he
    suggested I take silversmithing classes locally in Port Townsend,
    Washington, to have something creative to do. This kept me busy over
    the very sad 6 months he had left to live. After his passing I
    remained doing this until by chance I took a class on videography. 

    I now have two documentary programmes per month with two local TV
    stations. One is, of course, called, "Artist on Your Doorstep" where 
I
    videograph local artists and their work, including writers and poets.
    The second is called "In the Know", where I get to do our Winter
    Wanderlust series (this year, a woman sailer who taught 47 other
    women to sail while travelling around the world, and a women who went
    as an artist to Antarctica - she is also a writer plus a couple who
    went hunting for flowers in India). Then a talk by Chaplin Yee about
    his wrongful incarceration by the US Army for the ACLU and another on
    hurricanes, earthquakes, the Pacific Fault Line by Dr. Brian
    Attwater. Never a dull moment. I have been doing this for five years
    now. 

    I only make jewelry for myself (did the gallery scene for only a
    short timebut hated the months I did not sell anything but was paying
    to have the stuff in the gallery). Filmed the Seattle Metalsmiths
    Symposium last year. Loved the work shown by Lois Sher (writer of
    Indian jewelry traditions etc.) so am making my own collection of
    "Indian" jewelry without copying the really gifted people in her
    book. 

Cheers Glen Paris-Stamm
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