A friend of my husband’s  Melissa Ringler is a blacksmith.  She made  my beautiful “leaf” bracelet that I got from the Chickens on Mother’s Day.  We left the Chickens with my mom for a couple of hours and went to Melissa’s blacksmith shop Magic Metals to get my bracelet finished.   It had not been sealed and the colors had not been brought out in the metal yet.  When I first saw some of Melissa’s work I thought she added the colors to the metal with a varnish, I was surprised to find out that the colors already existed in the metal and all she does is heat it up with a propane torch to bring them out.  The different colors are determined by how long you expose it to the heat. She asked if I wanted blues or if I wanted more purples and browns. I, of course, asked for Purple for Maddie.

The bracelet turned out beautiful it’s a pretty wheat color and yes there is some purple in there too. We made the following video to show the process of her finishing it up. It was fascinating to watch her work.  I was even more surprised when she told me that I was going to make an arrow head.  We took a video of that too. Tune in later for Part 2 my first blacksmith lesson.

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