Watches do fall under the catagory of jewelry for both men and women- so suprise your dad or the Dad in your life with some custom, one of a kind, hand crafted leather watchbands. Its easy, as our friends over … Read More ...
Kawaii Charm Cuteness! Kid Friendly Project
Creative Diva Candie Cooper has a quick & easy project up on her blog 1-2-3 CRAFT! with the CUTEST altered bead dangles. She used some shell charms, tiny Kawaii (Japanese word for Cute) stickers and resin to create adorable … Read More ...
A Rainbow of Resin Bugs
I thought I’d share what I created this week for a wholesale order. Its a rainbow of cast resin bugs-over 60 in total. I love all the different colors that came out, like a flying rainbow! They will become pins … Read More ...
Jewelry Making Classes at ZNE Convenzione
I am happy to annouce that I will be teaching 2 jewelry making classes at the first (but not last!)Â ZNE ConvenZioNEÂ in beautiful Pleasanton, CA just north of San Francisco. The event will take place Aug 22-24, 2008.… Read More ...
Channeling Cinderella Challenge Deadline May 16th
I just found out about this challenge from Stringing Magazine and wanted to let you all know. Deadline is tomorrow but theres still time to enter!
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2 Pretty Wire Wrapped Rings Tutorials
Since I reviewed a wire wrapped book yesterday, I thought some of you would be curious to try some wrapping on your own. I found a couple of ring tutorials to get you started.
There is a simple but stylish … Read More ...
Book Review: Bead Simple by Susan Beal
BEAD SIMPLE Book Review
- ISBN: 9781135844424
- Subtitle: Essential Techniques for Making Jewelry Just the Way You Want It Author: Susan Beal
- Publisher:Taunton Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Language: English
- Pages: 224
Most beading books include a mix of patterns but call for … Read More ...
Bead Expo Author Book Signings and Demos!
Bead Expo
Portland Announces Huge Lineup of
Author Book Signings and Free DemonstrationsÂ
Meet nine popular authors and your favorite beading and jewelry-making magazine editors, Friday-Sunday, March 28-30, 2008Â
 Bead Expo Portland 2008, March 27-30 at … Read More ...
Book Review: Simply Modern Jewelry is Simply Beautiful
Paperbound, 8½ x 10 1/4, 120 pages
150 photographs
ISBN 978-1-59668-048-7
Retail: $21.95
Release Date February 2008
Simply Modern Jewelry shows that even a beginner can create beautiful boutique quality jewelry. Geared toward the novice beader, Editor … Read More ...
Revamp an Old Bangle Tutorial
The Spring 2008 issue of Make It Mine is officially on sale today and its chock full of fun projects and inspiration like these bracelets.Â
If you haven’t seen the magazine yet, Make it Mine’s mission is ” inspire our … Read More ...
Artist Interview: Carter Seibels of Divali Glass Jewelry
For this weeks Artist Interview, I am VERY excited to be able to introduce you all to someone that I am proud to be friends with – the EXTREMELY Talented Ms. Carter Seibels of Divali Glass Jewelry.
Carter and I … Read More ...
Free Jewelry Patterns at Freepatterns.com
While doing some research today I came across the freepatterns.com website. They have patterns for some basic jewelry making as well as various other crafts. You have to become a member, but it only takes about 10 seconds and its … Read More ...
Crochet yourself some MOD Circle Pendants
 I recently was browsing the Jelly Yarn website to get some of their cool plastic yarn to use in a project. While there I noticed a section for free patterns with a picture of the coolest crochet circles on … Read More ...
Jewelry Artist Interview: Kim Miles – Beadist
Lampworking is something I’ve always wanted to do, and its been on ‘the list’ since 1992. For some reason I get the feeling I may never get around to it LOL.
No reason to feel sad about it though, when … Read More ...
Bead & Crystal Heaven
I must be yearning for a trip to visit my BFF Kami who lives in Australia, because I keep coming across Australian bead sites.
 Bead and Crystal Heaven truly is a bead heaven on earth. They claim to be”one … Read More ...