I made a set of herb markers for Janice and Paul’s garden with some old silver spoons…
These are easy to make, you can get silver spoons for a few bucks each at an antique store.
DIY:
1) Flatten spoon with rubber mallet.
2) Flatten / texture stem with flat chasing hammer.
3) Mark letter spacing with permanent marker.
4) Use metal letter set to stamp each letter.
5) Fill the letter with marker pen and wipe off the excess.
6) BAM, done.
Ever since I saw some of Joe Curren’s framed photos at a gallery in Laguna Beach a few years ago I have wanted to get my hands on one!
Somewhere along the way I must have mentioned this to Chris Orwig who just gave me, not just any, but THE Joe Curren framed print that I have lusted after! (this link requires flash, sorry iFriends)
The amazing thing about Joe’s art is that the hand made frames are as enjoyable as the photos they present.
The photo is of a classic old Banyan tree and the frame is walnut – it reminds me a bit of Durban…
Anyway, you have got to see this in person, it’s still at my office at Cota, swing by if you’re in the area.
Now go get your hands on some beautiful original art at joecurren.com…
Color Services has just launched a beautiful new web site which was designed in-house by their own Gabe Cano and produced by NDIC. Gabe used dozens of my images throughout the site, it is really fun to see the familiar faces on almost every page. 
So head over to the beautiful new ColorServices.com and poke around :
I had the distinct pleasure of hanging out with Bill Adkins at his workshop/studio/playground today while he cut a piece of steel railway track for me to use as an anvil on my ring-making workbench.
Click here for more photos of Bill in action:
I needed some props for my 80s party Slash costume last weekend so I made a Black Death Vodka shirt (iron on) and bottle label. (In the 80s Slash was sponsored by Black Death Vodka. No one has heard of BDV before or since, however…)
