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Contents

ABOUT OUR COVER:

Momoko Okada’s “Wind” incense

burner, page 26. PHOTO: COURTESY

MOMOKO OKADA. Insets: Momoko

Okada’s “Essence of Japan” pendant,

page 22; Betsy Lehndorff ’s “Vintage

Swan” pendant, page 70; Kieu

Pham Gray’s “Radiant Silver Enamel”

pendant/focal, page 50. PHOTOS:

JIM LAWSON

ADVERTISING SECTIONS

90 Focus on Education

93 Classifi eds

93 Gem & Jewelry Shops

93 Advertisers’ Index

May/June 2020 • Volume 74, Number 3

4 MY TURN

From the Editor

How About a Win?

6 YOUR TURN

Design Challenge & Letters

8 THEIR TURN

A Gallery of This Issue’s Contributors

10 CULTIVATING CREATIVITY

Net Profi ts: Find your muse to

evolve your jewelry designs

by Cathleen McCarthy

14 SPECIFICALLY SOLDERING

Cool Tools & Hip Tips: The latest

and greatest soldering tools

by Helen I. Driggs

DOTS

18 CONNECTING THE DOTS

Trends: Wildly diff erent approaches

to a simple, common element.

by Deborah Yonick

22 ESSENCE OF JAPAN

Start with a heart, inlay with

metal dots, and gild one side

with colored foil

pendant project by

Momoko Okada

26 CULTURAL FUSION

Metals artist Momoko Okada draws

on her experience in both Japan

and the U.S.

design by Terri Haag

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