Making things that glow in the dark is always a fun prospect. It kind of brings you back to your childhood. A couple years ago I got the idea to make these cute little fairy lamp posts with the flower lights that…
This week several orders of glue came in and it got me to thinking about the different types of glue we use in different applications: jewelry making, beading, polymer clay and other crafty things. In fact, there are so many adhesives out just…
In part one of this series I showed how to design and create cute little scenes using silk ribbon, beads and simple embroidery stitches. This is such a relaxing and fun pastime, I hope you give it a try. In today’s video…
Have you ever bought a product for something, realized it didn’t do what you’d expected, set it on a shelf, then one day discovered it was actually quite for something else? It happens to me all the time, lol. The good news…
Although I had heard of brooch converters before I didn’t really think about them much until recently. And when I started thinking about them more carefully I realized all the exciting new possibilities with just my own small collection of brooches. Hope…
I’ve enjoyed hand embroidery since I was a little girl of around eight or nine years old. So when I first encountered the concept of doing those same stitches I had made with wool and floss, but instead using silk ribbon, I…
Having an extra set of beading tools that you can easily bring with you is a great idea. There have been a few occasions when friends or family members had jewelry that I could have easily adjusted or repaired for them, if…
If you’re a creative person you probably have many projects going on at any given time. But if you’re a beader how do you keep all of those different projects organized and keep your beads from spilling all over the place? This…
Leather is often the perfect choice when creating jewelry for guys. But make just a few alternate design decisions and you can have a really lovely feminine piece. Today’s bracelet combines metallic violet braided leather, rose gold findings and pressed glass flower…
Adding teeny, tiny painted details to our polymer clay and jewelry work can only be accomplished with teeny, tiny paint brushes. I do lots of work in miniature, so I was intrigued by this set of 15 brushes by Arteza. I really…
