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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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I was browsing around an antique store the other day when I heard the lady behind the counter say to a customer who had just come in, "Wow, I LOVE your necklace!" You can bet that I made haste trying to see the necklace all the fuss was about. It was bold, all silver and white, lots of wire...
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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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Have you ever met a jewelry designer or other artist whose work is so appealing to you that you love every single thing they create? For me, one of those jewelry artists is Gail Crosman Moore. Her work features so many of my favorite jewelry-making techniques, including enameling, metal clay, traditional...
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Some of my sparkle sisters and I joke that the only thing better than lots of bling is more bling. Don't tell them I said so, but there definitely is such a thing as too much bling--but these lovely lampwork glass beads by Diane Woodall of Soda Lime Times have just the right amount of sparkle to...
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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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Filed under: resin, jewelry design, stone setting, metalsmithing, jewelry making, riveting, gemstones, lampwork, enameling, Jewelry Making Techniques, Jewelry Supplies, Etching, Metal Stamping, Engraved Jewelry
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When I first started seriously making jewelry a few years ago, I had little interest in (or, I'm sad to say, respect for) wire. Most of the wire jewelry that I saw wasn't really my style, and I didn't realize how much of what I was seeing in other designs was actually wire. Fortunately, I...
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21 Jan 2013
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As a new recurring feature on Jewelry Making Daily , I'm going to share with you some of the amazing and talented jewelry designers that I am so fortunate to meet. First up is Kim Edwards of Lone Tree Studio . Since I first met her at Bead Fest Philly last August, I've been waiting for just the...
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Cocktail rings were designed to look pretty on a lady's hand while she's holding a cocktail at parties--in other words, they're perfect for New Year's Eve, and there's still time to make this one in time for your festivities. This Party Hat Ring, created by Karen McGovern for Nunn...
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The ability to create hollow-form metal clay beads opens so many possibilities for making large but lightweight metal clay beads that are much more comfortable to wear and wallet-friendly than if they were solid metal. Making hollow-form metal clay beads also helps avoid some of the issues that can arise...
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Photos by the designer. Here's another great mixed-media and wire jewelry project from our friends at Nunn Design! Stephanie Gard Buss created this pretty flowing pendant using sari silk ribbon, wire, chain, paper collage images, and beads. You can use any collage art you like on the channel bead...
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Search for Steampunk on Etsy and you'll find over 180,000 results . . . and 40 million on Google. A year and a half 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, and to put this cool trend in perspective, searches for "silver...
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12 Oct 2012
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Filed under: resin, jewelry design, stone setting, jewelry making, riveting, lampwork, steampunk jewelry, mixed media jewelry, Jewelry Making Techniques, Etching, Metal Stamping
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Welcome to Jodi Hesting, a lampwork glass bead and jewelry artist and our newest guest blogger on Jewelry Making Daily . To get us started with the basics, Jodi's sharing an intro to lampworking history, supplies to make lampwork glass beads, and basic lampworking terminology you'd hear around...
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Rings are my favorite jewelry to make . While I was at Bead Fest last week, I made several "tops" to go on rings and bought some metal and lampwork glass components that I intend to wire or solder into rings. "Everything is a ring to me," I said many times, and it's true--every...
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22 Aug 2012
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Filed under: jewelry design, silver jewelry making, metalsmithing, soldering, jewelry making, gemstones, lampwork, clay jewelry, Wire Jewelry Making, Jewelry Making Techniques, Crystal Clay
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Earlier this summer, several talented ladies from my local Louisiana metal clay guild, L'esprit du Metal, took a fun and informative field trip to the annual (albeit final) Precious Metal Clay (PMC) Conference. Here's our guild president Paula McDowell 's lively retelling of the trip, including...