Hello my pretty! I see you fell down the rabbit hole that is my blog. I have tried to find the ruby slippers to get out of this place, but so far I am trapped here. Maybe you will have more luck finding your way out than me.

Are you starting to see why I call myself Wacknut? I am wacky and nutty so I figured if I merged the two together it was more than fitting for me. Don't be surprised if you find more references to fairy tales and childhood pop culture mixed in here and there.

I got my start stringing beads together, but in the last year I have started to broaden my horizons. It all got started with my amazement of seeing what you could make by twisting wire around. That quickly turned into pounding on metal, sawing out shapes in sheets of metal, stamping letters and designs into those shapes I cut out and torching things.

Don't ask me how it happened, but I think I now have more tools than some guys! EEK! The really scary part is that I have never mastered any one of the aspects that I mentioned above. This blog is to track my success and failures. Right now the failures seem to be greater than the successes. That's normal, right?

I figure that at the rate I finish projects, I will be 80 before I master metalsmithing.

Thank you for looking at my blog.  If you don't mind checking in on me from time to time I would greatly appreciate it.    I might need you to rescue me from a fire breathing dragon or the giant piece of metal that keeps trying to fall on me!

Don't forget to check out my shop,  Designs by Wacknut, it is the only tunnel that leads to light around here.