The Challenges of Working on Custom Welding Projects

by | Apr 2, 2017 | Welding

Running a welding business in a small remote community has its challenges sometimes… Like this “BEWARE OF DOGS” project. A customer asked if I could make a sign out of metal to keep people from wandering on her property. She has four dogs. She asked if I could make a...

Art + Metal = Ornamental Welding

by | Mar 12, 2017 | Welding

I fell in love with metal when I found out that using a torch could cut, bend, distort and weld metal. Until that point, I saw metal as immovable, unbendable, unbreakable, unchangeable and permanent. I thought metal just was…Had never been or would ever be anything...

How I got here now

by | Feb 14, 2017 | Canning, Gardening, Plants, Welding

I didn’t always spend my days taking care of animals, building rabbit hutches, garden beds and showering outside. Until recently, I spent all my days working for other welding companies; repairing cracks in heavy equipment, building handrails, fixing and modifying...

What the history of women welders has taught me

by | Feb 14, 2017 | Welding

Throughout my years of working as a welder, it was very rare for me to encounter other women in the field or another shop. I have strived to teach other girls and women in my life to use plasma torches, put on their coveralls, and learn of the infinite possibilities...