Hello...
Welcome to my page.....
I am a goldsmith living and working in Southern California. The work that you see on this page is mine. You can get a better look at it at: http://www.byzantia.com. Contact info is on that site.
I have been a working jeweler for 15 years. My work is all hand made, one element at a time. Nothing is cast. Nothing is mass produced, no element of any piece is manufactured.
Prior to becoming a jeweler, I was a singer. You will find some of the musicians that I sang with many years ago on this page. Some that you see are pals that I have made over those years. Some are new "friends". The "friends" that you see on my page, are for the most part, artists, musicians, writers, actors, models, dancers, blacksmiths and photographers. People who leave things here on the planet for the rest of us. Of my top 8 friends I have known three of them for over twenty years.
Some of my other, "friends" here are people who have taken the time to volunteer for a cause that they support. I support those causes too. Please take a look at their pages.
Oh yeah....I write. you might want to check out my blog if you like to laugh.
Everyone here has something very special in their own way, and they have taken the time to write a few lines and say hi. So check it out. Check them out. Please connect...
If you want to add me because you are collecting thousands of friends, want a date, want to explain to me why your extreme political views are brilliant, want to promote yourself or your band without taking the time to drop a note...Want to confess your undying love? Hey... you might want to have a conversation with me first..Just a thought...lol... ....Anyway..if any of those motives to add sound like you...fuggedaboutit.
PS: 20 somethings...If you want a reply, write me something more than.."Hi...How you doin".
IF YOU WANT ME TO ADD YOU, PLEASE SEND ME A NOTE, AND NOT ONE THAT ONLY ASKS ME TO READ YOUR BLOG! Sorry to yell, just prefer to meet those I am inviting in.
If you send me an add request and everyone on your friend's list are females in bikinis spread eagled, with bits and pieces of their clothing gone missing....Its not gonna happen. LOL!
Everyone else....come on in. :-)
PSS: Top "Friends" will change around, as will the music...and I do houseclean. :-)
"My mother once said to me, "Elwood" -- she always called me Elwood -- "Elwood, in this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." For years I tried smart. I recommend pleasant....."
-Elwood P. Dowde (From the movie "Harvey", with Jimmy Stuart)