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Jewelry Making Silver

The jewelry making silver quick guide - including what you should know about eleven different types of silver - from Argentium to Tibetan - including plating, tarnishing, oxidizing, and more.

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Green Swirls bracelet

My favorite jewelry technique is chain maille. The finished piece always looks so professional. This piece is actually sold but the design can be adapted.

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Magnificent Obsession

This pearl encrusted statement piece is an adaptation of a class by Diane Dennis. In my version, I used about every technique - stringing, metalwork, peyote

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Kyanite Sterling Silver Lariat

I've mixed rectangular kyanite with kyanite disks and tiny crystals. Rather than a tie lariat or one loop - I've three loops for three kyanite stones to

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Journey Inward Labradorite and Wire Rings

Labradorite has an internal quality that I just love. Beautiful on the outside but the real mystery is within in those intermittent flashes of grey green

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Emerald Illusions Ring

I hope you like this ring as much as I liked creating it. I actually created this ring from an idea I got from another ring that I saw just recently.

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Christmas Lights Necklace

At a recent Pow Wow here on Long Island, NY (the Paumanok Pow Wow) I found these pretty little glass beads. They were strung together so beautifully I

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Turquoise Nugget on a Wire

A few years ago I had purchased a strand of big, fat, Turquoise nuggets at a gem fair. They are really too big to incorporate into most of my jewelry

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Safari Brooch

My first venture - or should I say adventure - into making brooches. What a hoot it was bending and shaping that wire till I had my way with it. Or,

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Keeping Your Knots in Place

When you tie a knot in some strings they come loose again. So to keep them stiff just add a little bit of clear nail polish to the knot and wait until

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Felted Wrist Cuff

I made this wrist cuff by cutting the arm of a wool sweater. I then had to cut to make it smaller, then I felted it together, which is the solid white

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Where Do You Get Steampunk Jewelry Supplies?

Hi, I love this Steampunk style but where can you buy supplies to make the jewellery if you don't have the old gadgets hanging around? Thanks! Be

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Midnight Kite Earrings

I came up with the idea for these earrings after making a beaded finding for square Swarovski crystals. I made the triangle base using a square stitch,

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Designing Your Own Special Piece of Jewelry

Ideas and Suggestions to Guide You from Imagination to Reality How often I have heard I know in my imagination what I want, I can picture it, but I can't

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Bubbe Pins (TM)

I have created a new line of hair adornment called Bubbe Pins™. The foundation is metal bobby pins with a 10 cm soldered pad, (apparently intended for

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Steampunk Ring with Floating Watch Parts

First I mounted a tiny snippet of a gorgeous vintage illustration into a high quality adjustable square silver ring blank and added a teensy weensy gear

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Fluorescent Dreams

This ring was handcrafted with a shiny button that I found in a craft store, and I absolutely fell in love with the button. I knew that it would be perfect

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Bejeweled Bracelet

It started when I finished wrapping the dark green double sided grosgrain ribbon around the bangle. I then felt it needed something more to really 'spark'

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Straightening Griffon Silk or Nylon Beading Cord

Okay - I know Rena has asked us before to tell her what tools or other items we use in our beading / jewelry making in unconventional ways, and I wanted

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Fused Dichroic Palm Pendant

I have been wanting to etch dichroic glass for years, but couldn't find any good stencils! I tried a technique using rubber stamps but didn't have much

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Back to Basic Collection

Back in 2006 / 2007 when I just started with wire jewelry, most of my wire wrapped pieces were made up of easy and basic shapes. From there on, I advanced

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Asian Inspired Earrings

I found these wonderful ceramic beads at a bead shop in Berkeley, CA. Paired them with a few lime green seed beads and some copper coils and ear wires.

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Pacific Tidal Pool

I've always had a fondness for the ocean - memories of childhood trips to the beach with my family. I called this piece Pacific Tidal Pool because Fluorite

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Bird Nest in Branches

I have just sold and shipped out my original Robin's Eggs necklace and already, I'm missing it. How impractical of me to become so attached to the things

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Hodge Podge Bracelet: A Wire Sampler

Inspired by the creation of my first wire bead I found myself wanting to create a functional piece of jewelry with it - in fact I was burning with desire

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