In today’s video I’ll tell you about a subject that can be confusing when you first encounter it: wire hardness. As I mention in the video, the terms “full hard,” “half hard” ” and “dead soft” baffled me when I first read…
This week’s polymer clay dragon sculpture is another project derived from a class at Polymer Clay Adventure, this time taught by Chris Kapono. The colors in the photos don’t show quite true. In my tile the left side is a rich, deep burgundy…
It’s the end of the month, so time for another giveaway! Every month TWO lucky winners will receive packages of handcrafted jewelry worth at least $100 each! It’s my pleasure to share some of my jewelry creations with my YouTube subscribers. Just…
I have always loved tiger eye gemstones. Something about their sparkly, swirly depths is fascinating, and being a cat fan I’ve always kind of been intrigued by the name, too. These tiger eye dagger beads are quite dramatic all by themselves and it…
This week’s jewelry making product is a fairly basic one, but oh-so-useful. Making stretch bracelets is quite quick and satisfying, all the work is in choosing the beads. You can also use elastic to make rings, I’ll show you some time. No…
This week’s dragon started because I was wearing the necklace with Wyatt, dragon number 16 from way back in April, and I remembered that I had made more of those lentil beads, and not yet put them to use. Check out this post on Errol, dragon #1,…
This week’s earrings are another one of those designs that I love, the type that you can change up each of the different elements and end up with something completely unique. You could change the briolette to any type of top drilled bead, you…
In this week’s video I’m going to talk to you about bail making pliers. They’re also known as multi step ring looping pliers, multi size wire looping pliers and I’ve even heard them called wrap and taps which may be from a brand-name,…
This week’s dragon is an ice and snow dragon named Yínbáilóng (yin-by-long). He’s another one from the Tiger’s Voyage book, and he’s the fifth and final dragon they encounter in their trip. Click on any of the photos for a closer look. For…
I just love how quickly you can put together this bracelet. The only thing that takes any time at all is stringing on the seed beads that you need for the loop. Choose any beads you like for this bracelet and you…
