Notes from the Shop: Fine Tuning the Jewelry Collection!

Back to the land of the living!
After 3 days at home nursing a bad cold, I am so happy to be back at the shop! Unless I am really, really under the weather I am lucky in that I can get a lot of work done from home.  This is either design work or computer work - like blogging, writing press releases, working on our new sweepstake, and such. Thinking kind of work, mostly.

But today, when I got back into the shop - I mean, the shop shop - where we actually make our products, I couldn't believe how good it felt. Admittedly, I have an incredible crew that runs our production here. But I jump in here and there - like right now while we are still adding to our new Jewelry Collection.

It's crazy but even after 25 years, I still get a thrill from working with pewter. The molten pewter is eternally fascinating. Really cool stuff. And drilling through pewter is pretty cool, too. It's a soft, friendly metal that just loves to be bent and shaped and drilled. I have heard of pewter companies where the owner is a business person and hires designers to make products. I can't even imagine not being an owner/designer! Although I do get overwhelmed with the number of hats I have to sometimes wear, I can't imagine giving up working with the actual metal to just be "an owner".

My kids don't get it. But, all I can say is, I hope that all of them can find the same passion in their work, as I have. I'm a lucky, lucky gal.