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Looking to combine your love of crochet with jewelry?? Heres an easy project to get you started. From Craftypod blog, here is a fun wire crocheted flower pendant tutorial. Easy, quick and fun!

From StudioHeath Jewelry, comes this very intensive wire wrapping tutorial for a cage pendant.  Once you learn the basics, you could personalize this with various wires, guages and things you ‘cage’ inside!

Here’s a great leather cuff tutorial by Mary Hettmansperger on the jewelry site Beads, Baubles and Jewels. Looks really cool and is unisex so you could make it for the guys in your life.  If you try this, please be sure to…

Crafty Dynamic Duo Cathie & Steve bring you this fun and flirty Bohemian ring project. They want you to ”Let your inner Bohemian loose with beaded cluster rings that show off personal artistic style and flavor.” I agree!!! I think these are so gorgeous, and…

Here’s an easy tutorial on making your own earring wires from McFarland Designs .  This are really easy to make and you can add a personal touch to your designs. They would look really cute in colored copper craft wire for youngsters…

A fantastic felted jewelry making tutorial from America’s favorite Craft Goddess – Martha Stewart. This felt acorn jewelry set is adorable and perfect for fall.  If you don’t have access to needles for felting, you can make the same shape by wet…

If you live in the Dallas area or will be there on Sept 20th, be sure to check out this fun event. 

 Jennifer Perkins from Naughty Secretary Club will be teaching a jewelry-making class @ Make Shop & Studio in Historic Bishop Arts District of…

   Bead Trends is more than a magazine, much more. I just got the Sept/Oct 08 issue and was really suprised to see how thick this issue is,  it’s really like a softbound book.  Their love of creating jewelry is evident in the magazine which…

Check out this gorgeous and intricate Tree of Life pendant tutorial from Bead Studio. Its an intermediate level project so not one for a beginner, but something to definately work towards. This “Tree of Life” pendant would make a gorgeous Holiday…

We have a new blog in Craft Gossip family – Glass Art!  Glass is on my ‘list’ of things to learn someday, so I am so glad to see the new blog and learn more about it.

Our new Craft Gossip Glass Art expert is Lori…

This past weekend I got the book Making Designer Jewelry from Hardware, Beads, and Gems  by Nicole Noelle Sherman.  Unusual/edgy jewelry is right up my alley, so the subject matter caught my attention right away.

Paperback: 128 pages

Publisher: Quarry Books (July 1, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1592534228

ISBN-13: 978-1592534227

Product Dimensions:…

Jewelry Artist Cyndi Lavin you how to easily make a simple square stitch bail for a donut pendant on the  Jewelry and Beading Blog. Don’t be decieved by the word “simple”, this looks quite stunning! And you don’t have to limit…

I got a link suggestion recently for Beading Buds. Located in Toronto, Canada Beading Buds is a traveling bead party that comes to you!  You provide the space and they provide the beads, instruction, inspiration and lots of fun.

They specialize in…

Tammy Powley is certainly a woman on the hunt, she always has great resources on her blog at  about.jewelrymaking.com. This post has a nice list of more jewelry making resources on the web. She includes a few video tutorials, pdf projects and call…

The Bead Shop has put a twist on the usually boring headpin with their tutorial “Fancy Headpins” .  This is a great project to do and then use as inspiration and take it further. Think of all the different shapes you…

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