[Jewelry making - Article 00064] - [Orchid] Workshop with Orchidian Loren Damewood

[Beth Wicker]

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    I had the privilege and pleasure to take a double workshop from
    fellow Orchidian Loren Damewood, goldenknots.com, this past week. I
    was able to talk our local arts commission into sponsoring it, and
    they did a great job promoting it. We learned how to do knotted fine
    silver bracelets in the morning, and knotted fine silver rings in
    the afternoon. Only one other participant had worked with metals
    before at all; most had never done any kind of jewelry or metal work.
    Everyone had a great time and learned a lot. I highly recommend
    scheduling one of Loren's workshops in your area!

    He is very flexible to work with; we had signed up for only the
    bracelet workshop. Everyone finished around lunch time, and Loren
    agreed to stay and give the ring workshop for an extra fee for those
    who wished to stay, and five of the ten chose to do that. During the
    afternoon class the local paper (which has every now and then had an
    editor and staff who could spell, write with correct punctuation and
    grammar, and compose a story that makes sense) came and took
    photographs and interviewed Loren.

    The article came out in this week's issue (weekly paper). The lead
    sentence stated that "Artesian Loren Damewood" had come to give a
    workshop. I got a big kick out of envisioning Loren with water
    pouring out of his head, as some kind of human walking well (artesian
    refers to a type of well; artisan is what I think they were looking
    for!). In the same issue, on the front page, they talked about an
    upcoming 30 hour workshop for guardian ad Litems (their
    capitalization) that would be held on Monday from 1-5 p.m. Neat trick
    to compress 30 hours into 4.....wonder how they do that?? They are
    also raising money to purchase Christmas presents "fore"
    disadvantaged children <vbg>! Lots of entertainment in the current
    issue....providing four entries in the Readers Digest jokes! The
    final one being a letter to the editor complaining about a local
    driver talking on a cell phone, driving with one hand, crossing two
    solid lines and breaking into traffic. The culprit? Our local
    driver's education instructor in the marked driver's education car!

    Gotta love small towns (pop. 5,500; county has maybe 20,000 on a
    good day).

Happy holidays to all.
Beth in SC
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