Here’s yet another way to customize your jewelry and make it uniquely your own: create custom decorative ear wires. What’s great about using these for your earrings is that you can make the ear wires an integral part of the design, rather…
One thing most polymer clay artists love about this medium is its ability to imitate other materials. Just a quick search for “polymer clay faux” on Pinterest brings up images and/or tutorials for faux gemstones of various types, faux sea glass, faux…
In this video I show you a wire wrapping technique that can turn just about anything into a pendant. Today I’m using a polished ammonite that I picked up at a bead show a while back. The wire wrapping is fairly straightforward as I wanted…
Happy What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday once again! A special note to J.M. if you’re reading this: Happy 49th Birthday! Yup, you’re still older than me. 🙂 I think of you and pray for you & yours often. I hope you all aren’t…
Happy What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday everyone! Today I’m coming to you from the land of ice and snow… that is, southeastern Massachusetts. We’re breaking snow total records here folks, 85.5 inches since the first of the year. I’m just thankful our oldest…
Have you ever come across an interesting object that you thought would be nice in a piece of jewelry but it didn’t have a stringing hole and you didn’t know how to make it work? In today’s video I show you how…
Don’t you just love how a little bit of wire can totally transform a couple of simple beads? (Click on the photos for a closer look.) These faceted blue teardrop beads are quite pretty all on their own, but with messy wraps and a…
Consider this bracelet excellent practice for making wire wrapped loops. You’ll need at least 40 to make it so full. Other than the time it takes to make all your bead dangles, this is a fairly simple bracelet. The truly fun part is…
