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From the JMD archives, here's one of my favorite blog posts ever. Judging from the amount of comments and feedback we received, it was one of your favorites, too! Enjoy this look back... The lovely old acrostic key brooch I saw on Antiques Roadshow . Can you read the message in these gems? Have you...
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Whether it's jewelry making, beading, quilting, knitting, or some other hobby--or even housekeeping--one good tip is enough to make your day and change your world. Friday is Jewelry Making Daily's third birthday (whee!), and here are the 11 most memorable and helpful wire jewelry-making tips...
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"You can make anything with wire...It's just a fabulous, fabulous medium." This line at the beginning of Janice Berkebile's new jewelry-making workshop, Easy Wire Stone Capture , sums up how I've been feeling about wire lately. It really is an incredibly versatile medium that can...
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I always like things that are just as pretty on the back as on the front. I know of several professional jewelry designers who put a secret design or tiny gemstone on their pieces as a special little hidden gift for the wearer alone to know about. Nunn Design's pendant bezels and ring bezels (on...
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Sterling silver has always been my favorite metal to wear, collect, and work with, and like many of you, my fingers are crossed for the day it becomes affordable again (if that ever happens). Meanwhile, I get my little joys from finding a $10 sterling silver fork or cup in an antique store that has been...
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Before you master any jewelry-making technique, I've learned that it's important to get a good foundation in the basics. If you start off with sloppy methods or build on bad habits, the problems can just multiply and get so ingrained in your techniques that they're like all bad habits--hard...
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25 Mar 2013
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Search for Steampunk on Etsy and you'll find over 215,000 results . . . and 35 million on Google. About two years ago, it was only 70,000 on Etsy and 6.5 million on Google. Wow. Needless to say, Steampunk is not going away anytime soon. But what is Steampunk, anyway? Steampunk gets its name from...
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Here's a favorite post from Jewelry Making Daily archives a couple of years ago. Enjoy! JMD member freshbakeddesigns shared these mismatched earrings in our member gallery. Love the copper heat patina! Several years ago at the AGTA gem show in Tucson, I was shadowing a gem buyer, my friend and mentor...
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This one was way out of my comfort zone, but I had to bring it home. I call it "Leonardo Meets Tim Burton." Do you know what it is? Those of you who have followed my writing on JMD know two things. My absolute passions are writing for JMD and Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist and teaching. Well...
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Whenever something was dropped or broken at my maternal grandmother's house, she'd call out, "Save the pieces!" I never knew what she did with the pieces, but her prudence stuck with me. I love creating recycled, upcycled jewelry with the "pieces," using found objects and...
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Setting stones in bezels isn't necessarily hard to do, it just requires more precision and attention to detail than possibly any other jewelry-making technique I can think of, except maybe cutting the stones themselves. Whenever I venture to create a bezel "from scratch," I try to remember...
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I'll be honest: I'd never heard the term " cold connections " until I became the lucky girl editor of Jewelry Making Daily. I'd always just called them connections, cold joins or by their "given" names, like rivets, screws, jump rings etc. Those terms are all still accurate...
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Sensory Overload: Falling in Love with Innsbruck, Swarovski, and Everything Baroque by Lexi Erickson, "Foreign Correspondent" Even thought I live in the Rocky Mountains of the US, I must say that driving into Innsbruck (which means "bridge over the river Inns") is a spectacular experience...
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Do you find yourself returning to one motif over and over in your jewelry making? For me, it's flowers and stacking about three flower or flower-like components, which I usually make into rings. Whenever I'm in a bead store or at a trade show, I always find myself picking up one or a few flowery...
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As I've been preparing for the Tucson gem, jewelry, and bead (and fossils and minerals and tools) shows this week (I'll be arriving just as you see this, yay!), I've been making a shopping list. I never follow it, mind you, but it helps me remember, when I'm out there, what I found lacking...
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6 Feb 2013
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