Sterling Silver

I am trying my hand at making Sterling Silver Jewelry. My wonderful son Brandon purchased me a Precious Metal Clay (PMC3) Kit. The kit comes with silver clay, tools and a hot pot. I made my first Silver Ring today YAY! It was fun but a bit nerve wracking. Fun playing with the clay and knowing that it was going to turn into beautiful silver when I was done, but nerve wracking because they say the clay dries really fast so you can't mess with it for very long. Well they were right! I almost messed with it too long. I could feel it drying while I was working with it. Thankfully I managed to make a pretty silver band. I scratched my name in the band because I thought it would look cool, but it really didn't, so you can't see my name in the pic, it's on the other side. I see it as all trial and error, I want to become really good with this stuff so I can sell it to everyone. But for now I'm still a little shell shocked and nervous about making another one, I mean after all this clay is pretty expensive, I really don't want to mess it up and have a big silver glob of nothing.  So what I think I'm going to do is order the spray they sell to keep the clay moist. And I think I'll buy the silver clay paste or syring they sell so I can make things to attach to the jewelry, like silver flowers, leaves and such. Things to make my jewelry a little ornate. I can't wait to get really good with this stuff because I am sooooo excited about adding silver jewelry to my store on Etsy. I hope you all visit, say hi and maybe purchased something that I've poured lots of love, sweet and tears on. And stay posted....I will post my progress with PMC!