Whoa!! Our Team In Training fundraiser on Saturday for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society raised about $10,000 ~ !!! Amazing!!! I auctioned off a ring and a session of fundamental metalsmithing classes and am so pleased with the results... The woman who won my ring came and found me to model it and she was just so excited about it, it was awesome to see how happy it made her! And the class went to one of my teammates' husbands! He is also quite excited and it is going to be neat to have him in the studio, fresh blood, and gung ho. He was telling me about earrings he'd made for his wife before, some pennies he had just bashed into odd shapes, and he said, "The cool thing was, I was smashing them on cement, and the texture of the cement transferred to the metal...", and I thought, Right on!! This is my kind of metalsmithing! Hopefully this will be a turnaround in momentum out there- I have not been drawn to the studio in the last couple months at all as running has taken over my life and coaching has fulfilled my social needs! I need to go out and clean up, make some mental space for something new to drop in and get building... it's coming... I feel it!... :)
