You may have seen this tiny blue box at your local craft store and paid it no attention. But I’m here to tell you that you NEED this stuff. If you’ve ever fought with threads tangling, knotting or fraying while stringing beads…
****Note: August 2019***** This dragon has been so popular that I finally made a class teaching how to make steampunk dragons in polymer clay. ************************* A steampunk dragon has been on my to-do list from the very beginning of this weekly polymer clay…
This week I’m introducing a new series here at my blog and on my YouTube channel. For the next five weeks I’ll be showing how to make your own miniature charms out of polymer clay. At the end of the five weeks…
I’ve been seeing ear threads around for quite some time but never really paid much attention to them until I got a couple pairs for myself. Now, I’m in love. 🙂 I just love how simple they are to make and to wear….
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,…
