Doug Williams, Publicity Coordinator Many Sun Lakes residents are wearing the traditional Arizona turquoise rings, which never seem to go out of style. These rings are popular with both men and women, but the ladies seem to fancy more than one on each hand, with brightly colored gems. Most men go for a larger sized…
Born in California, Don Hall and his wife Pat previously resided in Oregon, Nevada, and then loved the last 30 years here in Arizona. After retiring as a project estimator in heavy construction, he and Pat enjoyed exploring historical sites, photography, music, and visiting rock shops and gem shows, all of which naturally led Don…
Feeling hollow inside? Put yourself in a “gourd” mood! This month’s “Member Recognition” goes to Karen Wollscheid who chairs the Gourd Crafting group at the Sun Lakes Rock, Gem & Silver Club. She also serves as treasurer and website administrator. Check it out at www.slrgs.com. Bet you didn’t know that our club has 19 different…
Colleen Vinje and Carol Stagger love to “rock out” in their classes of Silver and Lapidary. Colleen is famous for making the popular “spinner rings” out of sterling silver, and Carol is having a blast cutting and polishing onyx in the shape of a heart (and she intends to be quite famous for her “hearts…
Linda Shanahan The Sun Lakes Rock, Gem and Silver Club is more than just rocks, gems and silver. We offer classes in a variety of art forms. This month, we highlight four unique classes that might be of interest to you. PMC (Metal Clay) is an alternative to working in lost wax or silversmithing. The metal…
Linda Shanahan Vic Hermann’s the man, our lapidary chair Can make you a handle or make you a bear Can make you a box or a puzzle or knife Discovered this talent in his later life He tells us that “anything made out of wood Can be made out of stone.” He knew that he…
Doug Williams Yup, we just reached our 200th member (hooray for us), so now YOU might be number 201? Of course, it’s just us “Year Rounders” who are still here and keeping cool in Sun Lakes this summer! But we want to remind all of our readers to get ready for this coming fall’s launch…
Doug Williams One of most popular classes of the Silver program at the Rock, Gem & Silver Club is Wire Wrap Bracelets! A little-known fact is that wire wrap is one of the best bargains in the Silver Club. Sometimes we “wire wrappers” are accused of not being “wrapped too tight,” ha ha, but that’s…
John Harrill Our club is one of the oldest and largest clubs in Sun Lakes. We welcome new members who are complete novices to experienced artists. Our club-member volunteers teach people who have never “been handy” how to make jewelry and art objects they are proud to wear and show. Not only do our members…