Boxes

If you teach metals, and you are (like me) a little obsessive about keeping organized teaching samples of all your small metaly stuff, let me recommend these AWESOME photo storage boxes from the Container Store.
Yes, they're pricey, but now the samples for my entire beginning Jewelry/Metals class are organized into this one, portable, box. And I love being organized.

Plus, they're made in the USA.

San Antonio at Christmas

lights on the trees along the Riverwalk in San Antonio.

We went to San Anton last week for the opening of La Noche del Brooche; an invitational exhibition of brooches at Equinox Gallery. N and I both had brooches in it, and you can see all the brooches in the show here.