The Jewelry Recipe Book
by Nancy Soriano RRP $24.95
This book is a must have for your craft book collection. This jewelry inside is created using every day object you may already have around the house. Why is this important? Well apart form creating unique designs it also enables you to keep your crafting costs down. Being able to start a new craft can be expensive. This book will enable you to produce funky and expensive looking pieces with minimal outlay, This makes it the perfect book for beginners or frugal crafters.
The Jewelry Recipe Book takes materials available at large craft stores (as well as specialty shops and artisan shops on Etsy)—beads, shrink plastic, leather, lace, pearls, sequins, polymer clay, yarn, and pinecones, to name a few—and transforms them into one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. Each of the 35 mini chapters organized by material consists of three projects and three skill levels, adding up to more than 100 stunning pieces that could easily be found for sale at Urban Outfitters or Anthropologie. Every piece is beautifully photographed, as are the majority of how-to steps, and the information is presented in an easy-to-follow way, like a recipe. The book also includes an overview of simple jewelry-making techniques and tips, with best practices for how to work with various materials; how to wear jewelry; and how to work with design elements that include color, scale, and shape.
