{"id":2243,"date":"2014-04-13T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancylangford.com\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2014-04-13T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:39:15","slug":"boxes-with-steel-by-sam-castner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancylangford.com\/?p=2243","title":{"rendered":"Boxes with Steel by Sam Castner"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the summer of 2012, I started making portfolios<\/a>\u00a0and since then I’ve added three more sizes of notepad covers.<\/a>\u00a0 Back when I started making them, I had a conversation with myself trying to decide whether to make those or boxes. \u00a0This winter I’ve come back to the boxes. \u00a0I started with some clamshell ones with a piece of my enameling inserted in the top. You can see one here<\/a>, if you scroll to the bottom.<\/p>\n

In December, before the deep freeze set in, I enlisted the help of Sam Caster<\/a>, an accomplished metal artist<\/a>, for ideas, encouragement and scraps. To my delight, Sam was very supportive and even willing to add his artistic touch in finishing my pieces. \u00a0For the past few months, I’ve been making more boxes to work with Sam’s designs. \u00a0We are finally ready to put some on the market! First are the ones with my enameling:\n\t\t