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Show "V Lakeside Review, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1981 3A Custom Best Is the Only Way Layton Man Fashions Jewelry One doesnt always LAYTON think of acetylene torches and chemicals or hammers and anvils when a beautiful ring or necklace is worn, yet these are essential to jewelry making, says Paul J. Badali of Layton. He has been fashioning beautiful jewelry for more than seven years and currently uses a workshop in his basement to design and make his original jewelry creations. He works mostly in gold and silver bases and uses a variety of precious and stones. Badali moved to Utah 12 years ago to attend Brigham Young University and later went to Weber State. He married semi-precio- us J jewelry. He also uses a fabrication method which involves bending gold into a desired item such as earrings. Badali, who has had no formal training in jewelry making, has displayed the products of his talent at art shows over the intermountain area, including the Park City Art Fair, and the Festival of the Arts in Salt Lake City. He attributes his creativity to his mother who he says is a very creative person. She always had something creative for us to do when I was a child and my wife is the same way with our kids. He has tried his hand in several art forms including oil painting, sketching, wood carving, and ceramics. Badali often puts in up to 20 hours a week making jewelry and enjoys working in his home because of the easy access .to his workshop when an idea for a new piece comes to him. Right now he is particularly interested in medieval works and is excited to try some designs inspired by the movies Lord of the Ring" and Dragons-laye- ,, XC the former Melody Black and they now have two daughters, Loria, 5, and Alaine, 2. He opened a jewelry store in Ogden about seven years ago and custom made all the jewelry sold at the shop. He now sells wholesale to jewelers and retails to private buyers. He also does some repair work on gold and silver. Jewelry making is a very creative art form, Badali said. But it can also be very precise. I give a lot of attention to detail, the polish must be perfect, the stones exactly centered in the pieces I make. I guess I am really a perfectionist. A lot of people find detail g but I find it very work relaxing. When he casts a gold ring he begins by first making the ring itself in wax,, working in all the details. The wax casting is then encased in a subst- - PAUL J. BADALI says making jewelry in his basement workshop is be added and additional detail might be etched on for a finished piece of Panel Would Rather Avoid Fed's Help Pool tify the expense, he said. Only those people that live in the area directly affected are interested. Bums said that at the hearings held for the Foothill Plaza project, 90 percent of the citizens attending were from the area of direct im. pact. . Frequent referendums would also deadlock the council in rezoning and election proceedings, he said. The issue was decided in district court in favor of the city but the citizens have carried it to the Utah Supreme Court. Burns said the site for the plaza was described by the proposed developer, Ashley Craig from Salt Lake City, as the best location in the city for commercial . When he isnt busy with the actual making of fine jewlry he occupies himself with the cutting and polishing of stones which he keeps in a bank vault along with the finished pieces. He also is anxious to try some new techniques such as acid etching and mixing copper, silver and gold, to get different colors, textures and designs. form with a centrifugal casting machine forming the ring. Stones may Zoning Vote Wanted In Fruit Heights FRUIT HEIGHTS A commercial development project in Fruit Heights remains in deadlock as citizens struggle against the city to obtain a referendum vote on zoning ordinances. The planned development,, the Foothill Plaza at Highway 89 and 400 North, is the center of controversy because local citizens would like to retain the rural atmosphere of Fruit Heights. City Administrator T.J. Burns said the City Council felt that changing the zoning laws was an administrative function and they would rather not submit all rezon-ing- s to referendum. Bums said frequent referendums are expensive for the city and rezoning does not create enough interest from the community to jus r. the way he prefers to relax. ance called investment which hardens like plaster. This then is put into an oven and the wax melts out leaving the form of the ring. 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