I will confess that one of my favorite characters in the Harry Potter books is that of Bellatrix Lestrange. You just know when her kindergarten teachers were making their class lists and came upon her name they all pointed and said, “that one’s going to be bad.” A bit like in the movies [...]

The McGonagall brooch was one of the first pieces I created using my mill. In fact, it was probably the force behind my buying a mill in the first place.
Recently I acquired reference that allowed me to learn the true color of the stones in the brooch. I decided to make the “stones” out of [...]

Well, it’s finally done. My first Alethiometer pocket watch. While the prototype was nice, the final one has much cleaner cuts, I enlarged the symbols a bit, and I made a lovely little presentation box. I updated the page with photos of the box and the final watch. I’m really enjoying playing with [...]

Still no tutorial, but last night I played around with cold casting. Cold casting is a resin casting technique where superfine metal powder is blended with the resin before casting. You can then polish or patina the piece as if it was real metal. I tried the technique with my McGonagall brooch [...]

As a member of the burgeoning class of fallen Catholics, I find all things religious intriguing. That is how I ended up on the site of Bob Siemon Designs. A Christian jewelry shop, Siemon happened to land a license to produce jewelry inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia movie. Many of the designs are subtle, [...]