About HC Designs:
Recently, I have discovered the love for metallurgy. It began one day making beads with a mother daughter day. Encouraged by others, by the beading jewelry I decided to take it another leaping step into metal lurgy.
Santa Fe Community College here at Gainesville, Florida has a wonderful community and departments for students who want to learn nothing but pure art.
I took fabrication and casting class at the same time. The techniques overlap, as for a new student, everything is new. Believe it or not, I struggled with fabrication, the ability to learn, understand, and apply soldering didn't kick in.
Now I have taken four additional classes of casting and applying the technique of soldering and other fabrication processes that I've finally able to learn and apply. The combination of the processes can create wonderful items. The casting class can be taken more then once, and each time its taken, something knew is learned.
On the side of making metals into wearable jewelry art, I am a cultural anthropologist student and I work for University of Florida as a lab technician.
Other random things I like getting into is playing at the pool hall, travelling, taking photography, scuba diving, and the occassional learning of the guitar.