by Nicole. I just began a baby bracelet business. After some research, I have become rather frustrated because I can’t seem to find gold-filled wire for making beaded bracelets. I have only seen gold-filled dead-soft or half-hard wire available for jewelry making, as well as the common Beadlon wire. From my understanding, one cannot use […]
Continue readingby Joshlyn d Greever. (Tazewell Virginia) This piece was created from newly purchased along with reincarnated materials. I love blending shiny new items with substance from another time. The flaws and imperfections add character to create a new story. I have a thing for stories, items and people of character. I want my designs to […]
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by Kathy Zee. (Fddletown, CA) Hoop earrings never go out of style. I am starting to get requests for them again after the last 5-6 months of people buying my other styles of earrings. In these hoops I used 4mm Czech glass beads, memory wire, and metal spacers. Cut the wire down on the smaller […]
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by Patti Pojer. (Somers, NY) These Venetian beads are from my supplier’s Picasso line. I was so drawn to these beads. First and foremost I made the decision that these beads deserved all goldfilled findings. I created a goldfilled necklace bar to hang components vertically. Designing with “just the right” spacers, helped to give further […]
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by Cherie Elksong. (southeast Arizona) This abstract art necklace started with a chunk of deep green, botryoidal malachite…we’d had it for a long time, but I think I remember it came from mining in Bisbee, AZ. The mixed metal (sterling & copper) setting was created with the same organic, free form sort of flow, two […]
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by Nancy Vaughan. (San Diego, CA) For the past 10 days or so I have been on a jewelry making binge. I’ve been experimenting with different shapes of ear wires plus using unusual shapes for the dangles. I don’t normally make my ear wires but I saw some unusual shapes while window shopping on line […]
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by Cathryn Smith. I have been searching everywhere for the name of a clasp like this, its like a barrel clasp, but inverted. There’s a barrel on the outside and screw threads on the inside. Cathryn Smith
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by Rhonda Grandee. (Blackfoot, Idaho) I’ve had trouble in the past setting the irregular shape of ammonites. Sometimes, getting enough wire to secure the fossil also tended to overwhelm the delicate chambers. I was happy to come up with this prong setting, using 22 gauge half hard wire for the frame and 24 gauge half […]
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by Carol Wofford. Last week’s snow storm kept me inside for days. I decided to clean out my kitchen junk drawer and found several ball point pens that were out of ink. Rather than throw them out I thought why not try to create something with them. Here’s what I did. I disassembled them and […]
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by Nadia Craig. (Pennsylvania) I don’t know what this chain style is called, but it’s like a diamond chain, with the stones set into tiny boxes and all linked together. My question is, is there a way to take these links apart? The chain I have is like two feet long and I need several […]
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by Chris Rehkop. (Ashland, MO) These beautiful lapis and bronzite stones inspired this necklace design. I think it has a Byzantine look to it. It will travel to Hawaii in January for a fundraiser sale. The show’s theme centers on blue and gold, regardless of the medium. The Christmas ornaments pictured are embellished with jewelry […]
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by Christine Sekino. (San Francisco) I can’t find the Staedtler CD R Pens on Amazon. Could they be marked in a different way? And are they permanent or not? Thanks! Christine Sekino Simple Metal
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