When you start with earring findings as cute as these it doesn’t take much to make a really nice pair of earrings. Just add a few bead dangles and ear wires. I can’t seem to find where I purchased these findings but…
Continuing in our series on jewelry tools today I’m going to tell you about rawhide mallets. Although not the most glamorous of tools, a rawhide mallet is useful when you need to harden or change the shape of a piece without creating…
This week’s dragon is a wall piece, like Fergus, who I made back in week 28. If you’d like to keep up with my dragon creations this year, I’ve made a Thursday’s Dragon Pinterest board just for them. Click on any of…
Today’s bracelet goes together very quickly. The pearls are wire wrapped on, but the crystals are attached with jump rings. I got the idea when looking through my stash of Swarovski crystal hearts and realizing I had all the colors of the…
You can make a lot of jewelry without any hammers at all, but if you’ve decided you’d like to get into wire working then you’ll definitely want to get yourself a chasing hammer. In upcoming videos I’ll talk about other hammers that you may…
This week you get to meet Jinsèlóng (pronounced gin-seh-long.) He’s another one from the Tigers Voyage book, and the fourth dragon they encounter on their trip. Click on any of the photos for a closer look. As you may have guessed from his appearance, he…
For this week’s jewelry project I show you how to take any two colors of seed beads and blend them together into a beautiful necklace. I’ve been on a turquoise and copper kick lately and I absolutely LOVE how this came out. If you were…
If you enjoy using small beads in your projects but don’t enjoy all the time it takes to string them, you might want to check out a bead spinner. It’s a rather clever tool based on an old technology and it makes quick work…
This week’s dragon is part of a scene I’ve had in mind for a long time. Actually this project is one of the reasons I started my weekly dragon challenge. Click on any of the photos for a closer look. There were always so many ideas…
Although this mosaic turquoise donut looks great all by itself it’s accented by all the dangles on top. The rustic cord just adds to the Southwestern vibe. Even though you have to wire wrap 2 dozen dangles, this project goes fairly quickly because you…
