Monika Heyen of "Silberschmuck Workshop" from Hörstel is the last student to visit Studio "Nevada's Dream" in 2020. She closes this rather gloomy Corona year colorfully. The UV-Resin supplement training was scheduled for today.
 
Just like last week, she travels by train and arrives in Harderwijk at 9.30. There her private driver - my husband Michael - is ready to take her to my studio.
 
Monika has already prepared a ring and a pendant at home.
The activities are therefore limited to coloring, curing and polishing. And that will be ready around 13.00! Okay, what else can we do after lunch? Monika would like to make a hollow bead, you know them, Pandora style. Fun! Then we do that right?!
 
At 16.30 Michael takes her back to the train station and we say goodbye. Next year I will travel to Hörstel to spend a day working with bronze clay together. I'm looking forward to it.
 
Monika, thank you for your commitment and positivity.
​On to a great, creative and above all healthy 2021!

For the first time in years, the prices of Art Clay Silver will be increased. A further reduction was implemented in 2015, but given the increase in silver and gold prices over the period of the past 5 years, unfortunately we cannot lag behind.
 
As of January 1, 2021, Studio “Nevada's Dream” in Harderwijk will implement a structural price increase of
​€ 5,00 per person, for each workshop offered that uses silver clay. The prices of the courses will also be adjusted.
 
Can a workshop Art Clay Silver be called “expensive”? No! After all, you make a beautiful silver piece of jewelry, which in value follows the price of silver. So come and enjoy a day during a workshop, or register for a certified training and become our fellow instructor.
 
I would love to meet you in my studio!
 
 
Henriëtte

Today Monika Heyen of “Silberschmuck Workshop” from Hörstel (Germany) is once again in Harderwijk. She comes for the Kumihimo supplement training. Our neighbor has deployed her plans to collect as many metal clay techniques as possible. Next week she will come for another day, then UV-Resin is next. That day we will color, today we will braid with silver wire.
 
Monika comes by train and Michael picks her up from the station. They both enter the studio at 09.30. First coffee, after all it was quite a trip and because of the Corona measures it is not allowed to eat or drink something on the train.
 
We start the training at 10.00 and I explain the planning and working method. First practice with colored woolen threads. Once the rhythm is in, we switch to shiny silver and Monika braids a beautiful bracelet. A sterling hook and eye closure is attached to the ends. This closure is then elegantly finished with silver clay.
 
Ready to fire, the jewelry is placed on a fiber blanket in the oven and heated at 800 °C for about 30 minutes. After the firing process, the bracelet is polished and tumbled. During these last steps we have a nice chat about our individual plans. After all, I am phasing out, Monika is becoming more and more visible within the world of metal clay. At 17.15 bring her back to the station.

We will meet again next week.
That is, if the Corona measures are not tightened.
Monika, thank you for another nice day.
​Have a great week and see you Saturday the 19th!  

Last year I received the two sisters Miranda and Vincenza for the certified instructor training Level 1. On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November they visited Harderwijk again and today they complete the last training day of the 2nd Level.
 
The ladies have not been able to plan a lot of time for working with metal clay in the past year. Last summer, July 1 to be precise, they opened the “Theetuin Driene” in Hengelo (O). That's called having guts and going for it! Absolutely in this Corona time, so full of uncertainty due to imposed measures. Their driven perseverance results in many assignments and reservations. From High Tea to Gift boxes, filled with tasty teas, sweets and savory treats, of course everything To Go. What about delicious fresh oliebollen to usher in the new 2021 on New Year's Eve? Or a workshop Making Cakes and Christmas wreaths with natural materials, or even crochet?
 
A multitude of creativity, in which Art Clay Silver has also conquered a place in the range list. The range of silver clay workshops will soon be even more exclusive, the ladies have learned new additional techniques in recent days. Just take a look at the results of these days.

Dear girls, it was fun again.
Good luck with your beautiful, spacious Theetuin, where people can enjoy, discharge by being creative and designing under expert guidance.
​I will definitely visit you!