Me and Baby Lil Make a Heart Pendant

The following pictures are of Lil, Rachel and Alex's child, my brothers grandkid, my great niece.  It's always nice when they come up to visit and we usually make something in the studio.  This time me and Lil made a heart pendant.  I cut it out and did most of it, but, hey, she's 4.  She did get to stamp the letters and do some sanding.  Rachel shot all of the photos.

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Here is me sawing, terribly exciting, huh? 

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Here I am sanding the edge of the heart with a rotary tool.

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Here we are smacking a letter stamp into the copper heart.

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A shot of the heart on the anvil.

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Here Lil and myself are drilling a hole into the heart

so we can put a jump ring through it.

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Still drilling. No one is hurt yet.

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A shot of the heart so far.

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More smacking of metal stamps.  We stamped "LIL" on one side

and on the other side we stamped my maker stamp, "TAYSE".

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No real reason for this shot, except I like it.

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Me and the Lil child sanding.

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Here I am trying to provide sanding tips to a 4 year old. 

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Now for the buffing.

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The entire process was kept under the watchful eye of 

Sophie the Wonderdog.

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A little bit more of rotary tool buffing.

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A little more of a buffing close up.

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Ok, a 'kinda pointless picture of me finishing an edge

of the heart, but it does have the Lil child.

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