Take a class: Ring Making

One of my goals for this year was to take an art class in person and by that I mean an ongoing, multi-week class like painting or drawing, etc. I still haven't found one yet, but! I have taken two one time art classes and they have been so fun and educational. The first I took was a Korean Tea Cup making class (aka pottery aka making teeny tiny bowls like you did in 3rd grade except more embarrassing because you are a grown up). See the embarrassing photo here! Anyway, some friends and I took a ring making class recently and the results were the exact opposite. Our rings are legit. Mostly because the staff walk you through each step and they are beautiful and real silver. Here is a photo walk through of our class, this is nowhere near a tutorial as the class was in Korean and well, I doubt we all have soldering tools just lying around. But it was still really fun! I couldn't find their website, but if you are local and would like to go just let me know and I'll give you directions.My favorite part for sure was designing my ring. You got to choose the shape, width, texture, words, jewels and more. I was in heaven...  What the rings (silver) looked like when they handed them to us to begin. They were cut in our ring size. Hammering in the words! I made 'sister' rings for me and my sister. PS I know that one looks terrible (it was my first try OK!?) but once it got hammered out in the rest of the process it turned out perfect, except for the adorable upside down T...theres no fixing that...  Shaping them.  Ps the PHHHOTO app is just too entertaining guys. Ok so what we are doing here is hammering them down on the ring measuring tool to stretch them to the right size and to give them a textured top.   Sanding the edges to make them smooth. Then the professionals took them and did fancy, legit stuff to them to finish them and gave us these claw machines with fake money to play with. We were beyond excited to win those little fruity mints (and may have totally cheated. These games are SO hard!)  Our finished rings!  So. Much. Fun! Have you taken any fun classes like this recently? Tell me about it!