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Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist 65th Anniversary Giveaway, Week 1: Rio Grande's Falcon Diamond Saw Blades

Welcome to the first of a long, hot summer full of jewelry-making tools and supplies Friday giveaways! In celebration of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine's 65th anniversary, we've gathered an impressive collection of new and favorite jewelry
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Chain Making: Take Wire from Functional to Fabulous, Plus 7 Tips on Caring for Chain

Since I've been working at Jewelry Making Daily (good times!), I've gained a whole new appreciation for wire . I used to have a pretty specific view of wirework, but slowly, thankfully, I've realized that wire is everywhere in jewelry making
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Gemstone Adventures: Mine for Moonstone and Learn to Set it in Jewelry

The recent full moon was so large and bright (earning itself "supermoon" status), so pretty in the spring sky, I found myself gazing at it as I traveled around Louisiana over the past weekend. Perhaps it's the gemstone training (or gem geekiness
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Make Easy Molds for Easy and Memorable Metal Clay Designs

In a recent meeting of my local metal clay guild, someone shared the idea of using Play-Doh to make metal clay molds. It's inexpensive and readily available, it's hard when it dries, and it comes in convenient little sealed containers that are
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Polymer Clay Jewelry Making: Learn How to Make Polymer Clay Jewelry with 5 Free Projects

Versatile. That's the first word that comes to mind when I think of polymer clay jewelry making. The other words that come to mind when I think about making jewelry with polymer clay are forgiving, affordable, colorful, fun, and easy, but the first
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Jewelry Design: Taking Cues from the Ultimate Designer, Mother Nature

Ask any jewelry designer (or designer of most anything, for that matter) what inspires them, and I bet more often than not, they'll say nature. I find myself picking up random things in the wild everywhere I go because they have a neat pattern or
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Look What I Found: Faceted Polymer Clay Beads Tutorial

Photo by Eugena Topina of Polymer Tutorials . I recently came across a great faceted polymer clay bead tutorial that was too good not to share. I rave about polymer clay as a jewelry-making medium because it can resemble just about anything you want it
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Part Two: Patina and Texture, a Jewelry Maker's Essential Tools by Ronna Sarvas Weltman

Editor's note: Ronna Sarvas Weltman is a contributing editor for Step by Step Wire Jewelry and author of Ancient Modern: Polymer Clay and Wire Jewelry . She teaches workshops in polymer clay and wire jewelry making . Ronna creates artisan jewelry
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Stone Setting: Basic Bezel-Making Tips and Techniques from Michael Boyd

by Michael Boyd In our shop, we make hundreds if not thousands of bezels each year--sometimes twenty, thirty, and even up to fifty bezels for one piece of jewelry! Bezels offer the jewelry maker a nicely integrated gemstone setting that is secure as well
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Learn How to Make Wire Jewelry: Designs for Making Wire Jewelry with 6 Wire Jewelry Making Techniques

I've gained a new passion and respect for wire jewelry in the past two years, and it's largely due to discovering how versatile wire and wire jewelry making is. In fact, I'd go so far as to say there's almost no jewelry to be made without
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Lampwork Glass Beads: Favorite Jewelry Projects

Sometimes we just get so enamored with jewelry-making goodies that we have to put ourselves on a stash diet for our own good. For metal clay enthusiasts, I think it's probably texture sheets (if not metal clay itself). There's always a new color
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Quick and Easy: Modern Polymer Clay Earrings

Are you looking for a forgiving, easy to use, versatile, affordable medium to add to your jewelry-making repertoire? Let me introduce you to my friend, polymer clay. Surely you've heard about him, but do you realize what he can do for you? Polymer
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Fun Gem "Facts": Add Color and Intrigue to Your Jewelry Designs with Meaningful Gemstones

I didn't think I could get even fonder of gems, but when I saw all the gemstone slices all over Tucson, my (already substantial) passion for them grew even greater. I've seen gem slices before, of course--who hasn't seen watermelon tourmaline
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Part Three: Make a Custom Reticulated Silver Cabochon Bezel

Continued from part two of Make a Custom Reticulated Silver Cabochon Bezel. 24. Clamp the spread end in a vise and bend to a right angle. 25. Using your hands, bend the square wire 180° around a 3/8" diameter steel rod clamped in a vise. 26.
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Part One: Make a Custom Reticulated Silver Cabochon Bezel

As part two of the introductory cabochon-cutting tutorial from last week, Tom and Kay Benham also created a custom bezel to fit that freeform turquoise cabochon that features reticulated silver. Reticulation uses a torch flame to add interesting, natural
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Unlimited Possibilities: Making Jewelry with "Delicate, Organic, Exquisite" Polymer Clay

Having spent so many years working in the craft industry, I have been familiar with polymer clay for a long time--but hardly ever in terms of jewelry making . And after spending so much time working with gemstones and the cool hardness of metal, the versatility
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Gemstones for Jewelry Making: Pantone's Spring 2012 Color Palette

I'm passionate about color and all of its little nuances. I'm fascinated by the different appearances a single color can have based upon the light it's viewed under, and I get satisfaction from identifying multiple hues in an object that appears
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Bronze Metal Clay: My First Impressions and the Charm Swap

I participated in my first metal clay charm swap last month during our L'Esprit du Metal guild's holiday party, and now I have a beautiful bracelet full of talent, friendship, and special memories. If you're a member of a metal clay guild
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Resin Confessions and Foolproof Solutions: 15 Resin Jewelry-Making Tips and Fixes

I have a confession to make: I get nervous when I'm going to make jewelry with resin. My fears are totally unfounded--I was taught by experts, use the best materials, and follow instructions exactly--but I still inexplicably hold my breath when I'm
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Polymer Clay Jewelry Making Tips from Clay Expert Lisa Pavelka

After over a decade of working in the crafting industry, I can't think of polymer clay without thinking of Lisa Pavelka . She's a polymer clay designer, teacher, author, television personality, and product creator--in short, she knows her stuff
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Lights, Camera . . . Gemstones: Lighting Tips for Gem and Jewelry Photography

by Merle White, Editor-in-Chief of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist Shoot--it's hard to shoot gemstones! Everything that makes them so interesting to look at also makes them challenging to photograph. Each of these stones alone has its own photography
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My Favorite Gemstone . . . at the Moment: Cutting a Spinner Quartz

by Merle White, Editor-in-Chief of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist Viewed face up, my spinner quartz shows the same needle of rutile reflected around the stone. Am I ever going to do something with that spinner quartz I bought at last year's Tucson
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Guide to Jewelry-Making Techniques: How to Make Jewelry with 5 Free Jewelry Projects

I love being able to share my passion for jewelry making with new makers, especially ones who are learning new jewelry techniques such as wirework and even metalsmithing, including fun techniques like texturing, doming, and soldering metal, bezel making
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Selling Handmade Jewelry Online: Tips for Great Photography

It doesn't matter how long you've been making jewelry and getting compliments on it from friends and strangers--it's still scary to sell your jewelry , to put your work out there for the world to see! I'll never forget the last few days
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Trash-to-Treasure Jewelry: Make Art Jewelry With Me Using Gifts from the Sea

Beachcombing has always been one of my favorite pastimes. Through years of family vacations and girls' weekend trips, my mother and I have visited dozens of beaches on the east and gulf coasts--including nearly every beach from the Outer Banks of
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Tell Me A Story: Fun Facts About Gemstones Add Interest to Your Handmade Jewelry

I love being able to tell people a little something about the gemstones I use to make the jewelry they buy from me. I think a fun response to "What a pretty necklace!" would be "Thank you, it's aquamarine--did you know that sailors
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Customer Favorites and Editor's Picks: The Best of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist Magazine

Since I started here at Jewelry Making Daily about a year ago, I've slowly but surely doubled my collection of back issues of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine. Every once in awhile I get a happy email from a coworker that goes something like
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Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers: A Million (okay, 17) Silver Jewelry-Making Tips

I've been like a kid awaiting Santa Claus since I learned about our new silversmithing book, Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers: A Handbook of Techniques and Surface Treatments. (Is it here yet? Is it here yet?) I couldn't even get my hands on
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6 More Silver Jewelry-Making Tips from Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers

Enjoy these six bonus silversmithing tips from Elizabeth Bone's book Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers: A Handbook of Techniques and Surface Treatments , a must-have comprehensive silversmithing resource! Create unique surface treatments in the texturing
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It's Sparkle (Jewelry) Season: Make Earrings for the Holiday Party Season

I looove this time of year. Leaves falling, warm bright blue-sky days, crisp chilly nights . . . and when all that natural beauty gives way to dreary cold, dark days, there's still something else to love about autumn: the beginning of the holiday
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Mixed-Media Jewelry: Using Found Objects in Handmade Jewelry

By Ronna Sarvas Weltman I love mixed-media jewelry. I love that it flaunts any rules of what goes with what. Diamonds with Legos? Fair game. I love that it points out possibilities, showing us that this chipped game piece or that faded ribbon can take
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6 Reasons Not to Miss the Newest Series of Beads, Baubles, and Jewels

I get excited every time a new series of Beads, Baubles and Jewels comes out. Each one gets better than the ones before, and there's so much to talk about, I never know where to begin. The newest series is packed full of dozens of handcrafted jewelry
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The Versatility of Metal Clay: Making a Customized Rosary

I made a rosary for a very dear friend's birthday about a year ago, and I believe I learned as much making it as I have in any other jewelry-making endeavor I've ever had. I am not Catholic, so I had to do a bit of research to learn how to make
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Wire Wrapping with the Cougar: Wire Jewelry Q&A with Dale "Cougar" Armstrong

Even though I've written about wire jewelry many times and even this author in particular, I've never done an interview with Dale "Cougar" Armstrong. High time, don't you think? When I heard she was a rock hound like me, I couldn't
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Part One: Patina and Texture, A Jewelry Maker's Essential Tools by Ronna Sarvas Weltman

Ronna Sarvas Weltman is a contributing editor to Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry and author of Ancient Modern: Polymer Clay and Wire Jewelry . She regularly teaches workshops in polymer clay and wire jewelry making. Ronna creates artisan jewelry using sterling
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Jewelry-Making Inspiration to Revive Your Stash

Every time I try to clear out my stash of jewelry-making supplies, it's the same story. I'm too attached, even to ones that I've had for a long time and still not used. I can't give them away just because I don't know what I want to
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My First Bead Swap: Mining Our eMags for Inspiration

I'm so excited to be taking part in my first bead-swap blog party! I was thrilled to be invited to Lori Anderson's 2011 Bead Soup Blog Party (there are over 300 participants this year!) and couldn't wait to join in. I sent Lesley turquoise
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Add Some Zing to Your Earrings: Make Mismatched Earring Designs

Several years ago at the AGTA gem show in Tucson, I was shadowing a gem buyer, my friend and mentor, while he was buying high-end gemstones. After he purchased several coordinating but not matched pairs, he said that designers who create mismatched earrings
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Tell Me a Story: Top Designers Share the Creative Tales Behind Favorite Jewelry-Making Projects

Whenever I sell a piece of jewelry, the buyers (and browsers) often ask me the story behind a piece. Sometimes I can tell them where I found some unusual old metal found object I've used in it, or I'll describe the thing--art, other jewelry, flowers
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Behind the Pages of Wire Art Jewelry Workshop with Sharilyn Miller

It's no surprise: I love craft books, and jewelry-making books in particular. Seeing the projects and reading what designers write always makes me want to know more about the authors and the background behind each project. Did you catch my interview
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10 Things to Love About Bracelets and Our New Everyday Bracelets eMag

Do you ever get the feeling that the universe has you bugged? Not in a conspiracy theory sort of way, but just in an "Oh yeah? Well watch this!" sort of way? Because just a few weeks after I wrote about bracelets being mostly special-occasion
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Copper Clay Tips from Arlene Mornick

Since I first discovered it about ten years ago at a craft trade show, metal clay has been my favorite medium ever , for jewelry making or any other craft. I can't talk about it without saying the word "magic" over and over. I thought silver
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Bezel Settings Love Stones

You can set faceted stones of any shape and flat gemstone slices equally well in bezels. Helen Blythe-Hart's "Watermelon Parfait Pendant." Photo: Jim Lawson. I Love Stones, So I Love Bezel Settings The first time I saw a faceted stone in
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Soldering Made Simple: Create Easy Textured Silver Stack Rings

Rings are my favorite piece of jewelry to collect, wear, and make. Fortunately, the ring design possibilities are endless when you combine sterling silver wire with texturing tools such as hammers and files. (I prefer standard 8-gauge half-round, but
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Carats of Carrots and Christian Hemmerle's Gemstone Vegetable Brooches

Welcome to Stuff We Love, a fun catch-all sort of place where we can share inspiring jewelry designs and jewelry-making products! Christian Hemmerle's corn brooch. Photo from JCK. I was so enamored with today's topic that I created this new blog
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Using Gems in Jewelry: Tips and Advice from the Pros

My gem-geek-ness is no secret; I'm drawn to colorful gemstones--spinel, ruby, tourmaline, and some garnets, especially, and my beloved pearls, of course--like a moth to a flame. Sometimes when I'm working at my bench, I think that I might make
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Make Art Jewelry Out of Anything: Techniques for Using Plastic, Concrete, and More in Your Jewelry Designs

Based on the cover and the title, I felt like I had a pretty good idea of what The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Jewelry-Making Techniques was about. I felt like I knew what the jewelry inside probably looked like, what the how-tos and instructional pieces
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Arm Candy: Learn to Make 10 Bracelet Designs

Layering Bracelets in Fashion When I think of jewelry trends over the past few years, stacking and layering seems to be The Big Thing. It seems the fashion world has decided that instead of some specific style, anything goes--and more is more. So people
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Make Quick & Easy Jewelry To Sell: 101 Stylish Wire Earrings and Ear Wires

Super simple, super stylish Carnelian Coils by Denise Peck. I often get asked for advice from jewelry makers interested in making and selling jewelry at craft shows, online, or in local shops and markets. Making jewelry to sell is one of the first things
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Smokin' Stones: The Great "Jasper" Gemstone Riddle

Here's a gemstone riddle for you. When is jasper not necessarily jasper? When it's Red Creek "jasper" from China! And frankly, it's not red either--although there are some lovely red tones in it, along with exquisite shades of yellow
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Nature's Beads: Make Meaningful Jewelry with Genuine Gemstones

I began my jewelry-making hobby (and now, career) with gemstones. Their infinite variety of colors, shapes, and special characteristics like phenomena and texture are endlessly inspiring to me, and I love the "realness" of genuine gemstones
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The Life of a Jeweler's Apprentice

In the past six months or so, I think I've been one of the luckiest girls in the world. I've gotten to learn many new jewelry-making techniques through face-to-face interaction with masters at their arts. I learned to enamel on copper, and I spent
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5 Jewelry Techniques + 5 Must-Have How-Tos = 1 Great Jewelry-Making Library

Crafters in general (jewelry makers too) are notorious for our supply stashes, but working in a "making" industry of one sort or another for over ten years now makes mine different, because I have to have all this stuff for work. Riiiight. I
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Learn the Complete Lapidary Experience: Hunt, Cut, and Set Gems

I've been a fan of rock-hunting since I was a little girl, when I could find quartz, mica, and pyrite just about anywhere. Now there are some interesting mineral specimens and pieces of lapidary rough in my rock and gem collection, and learning to
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7 Ways to Riff on Jewelry Design

Silver-in-quartz in silver bezel setting by Helen Driggs; photo: Jim Lawson One of my favorite effects in jewelry design is echoing some aspect of the main or focal element elsewhere in the piece. I especially love it when a really interesting gemstone
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Behind the Little Paper Strips: 5 Tips from My Jewelry-Making Books

On this, the fourteenth day of my big move, I've found my books. Hallelujah! If there's anything I like about moving, it's unpacking beloved treasures and deciding where they will live in the new house. I usually save books for last, though
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Jewelry Artist Roger Halas Talks About Design and Inspiration

Karla Rosenbusch is the managing editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. Through my work on Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist , I've been very privileged in getting to know several top jewelry artists and jewelry makers. One of those artists is Roger
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Where can you learn everything you need to know about colored gemstones?

Karla Rosenbusch is the managing editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. Akoya pearls freshwater pearls Tahitian pearls South Sea pearls Pearl photos by Jim Lawson. Pssst! Can I let you on a little secret? Until I started working at Interweave a few
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Polymer Clay Art Jewelry Making: Tips and Ideas from the Pros

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. Polymer clay is like an old friend that keeps popping up throughout the years of my crafty how-to career. I'm happy to have it back now in the form of gallery-quality art jewelry, and I've called
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Silver Jewelry-Making for Everyone: Intro to the 5 Silversmithing Techniques

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. If the word silversmithing intimidates you, get ready to get excited! I recently had a discussion with Jewelry Making Daily 's Facebook friends about what we wish someone had told us when we first
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Q&A Part One: Wire Art Jewelry Workshop Author Sharilyn Miller

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. Craft books are full of fun anecdotes and other glimpses into the author's personality, and that just makes me want to know more about the authors and the stories behind the projects. So I was excited
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Your First Metalsmithing Project: Create Textured Copper Earrings

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. My first metalsmithing experience resulted in these handmade textured copper earrings. My friend and teacher, metalsmith Lexi Erickson, taught me how to saw and then set me loose, helping me quickly turn
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Easy Wire Jewelry: Make a Wire Ring in Minutes

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. Copper Top Ring by Denise Peck Rings are my favorite type of jewelry to make. I think they are easier than earrings (because you only have to make one instead of a matching pair) and easier than necklaces
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Spring in my Step: Tammy's Favorite Jewelry-Making E-Projects

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. It's nearly 70 degrees and sunny here today, and even though it's still February, I've just been hit with a ferocious bout of spring fever! My to-do list is a mile long, but it's all going
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Color Design Trends: Hot (and Cool) Picks for 2011

Helen Driggs is the managing editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist . Pantone’s regatta and blue curacao would be in this color family. Aqua and turquoise are generally good colors for any skintone. This group of gems includes amazonite, tourmaline
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The Fabulous 5: Tammy's Favorite New (and Inspiring) Jewelry-Making Products

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. Didn't we agree we were going to do more silversmithing projects this year? Today January is officially over, and I haven't made a single piece of silver jewelry. I've been savoring all the
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Make A Mokume Gane Heart Pendant

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. Mokume Gane Heart Pendant by Roger Halas Roger Halas is a self-taught lapidary, metalsmith, and jewelry designer in southern California. When not making jewelry, he works as a professional photographer
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Gemstones: The School of Hard Rocks—I mean, Knocks

Helen Driggs is the managing editor for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist . I'm one of those students who learns best when I have totally screwed up. In the past year I have destroyed more stone than in my entire life before this, out of pure ignorance
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Best Jewelry-Making Blogs of 2010, Best Wishes for 2011—and a Great Sale to Get You Started!

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. Hearing all the "year in review" news this time of year always reminds me—time flies when you're having fun, and I've had so much fun being with all of you these past months. Many
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Happy Holidays To You! Save 30% Off All E-Projects

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. The tree is twinkling, my family is nearby, something in the oven smells deeelish, and there's a fire crackling in the fireplace . . . that sounds like a heavenly Christmas Eve, to me. The past few
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Tucson Is Coming! 5 Gem and Jewelry Show Essentials from Karla

Karla Rosenbusch is the associate editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. Every year about this time, I start thinking past the holidays and looking forward to the annual Tucson gem, jewelry, mineral, fossil, and bead shows in January and February
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Media Review: Metalsmith App for iPhone, iPad, and iTouch

By Tom and Kay Benham Tim McCreight, internationally renowned metalsmith, teacher, author of Complete Metalsmith and founder of Brynmorgen Press,continues to keep pace with the times. Over the years, Tim continues to release updated versions of his Complete
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Want It, Love It: Tammy's Top 9 Holiday Gift Picks for Jewelry Makers

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. Whew, what a weekend! The turkey was eaten, the tree was decorated, and I shopped 'til I dropped and then some. Now it's time to get serious about jewelry gifts for family and friends. Whether
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Merle's Top 7 Holiday Gifts for Jewelry Makers

Merle White is editor-in-chief of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist . Just out, the December 2010 Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist issue is my favorite of the moment. My favorite is always whatever I've just discovered. I still love the old standbys
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Best of Wire Jewelry: 100+ Wire-Jewelry Tips Plus Project Previews

Viking Knit by Kathleen Pierce Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. I had a treat waiting on me when I got home from a business trip this week: The Best of Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine. I look forward to hearing how much you love your
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Alternative (and Affordable!) Gemstones for Your Jewelry-Making Projects

Karla Rosenbusch is the associate editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. Well, I admit it. I'm a stone addict. Yes, that sounds really bad, but what I mean is that I love gemstones. And when it comes to the stones I select for my jewelry, the
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Wire and Gemstones: A Match Made in Heaven

Carol Dean Naukam's turquoise and onyx wire-wrapped bracelets Denise Peck is the editor of Step by Step Wire Jewelry and the senior editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist . One of the best things about designing wire jewelry is being able to showcase
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Tammy’s Favorite Gem Resources: Buy Two, Get One Free

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. I've been a rock hound since I was a little girl. I kept my primitive rock collection—which consisted mostly of quartz, pyrite, and mica—in a pink foam egg carton, and it was among my
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Metal Clay Magic: Flexible Textures and Easy Stone Settings

Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. I'll never forget when I first discovered metal clay, about eight years ago at a craft trade show. As the demo artist was working it, firing it and, most miraculously, burnishing it to a brilliant
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Five Free Stone-Cutting Projects and Techniques

Cabochon, Faceting, Inlay, Slabbing, and Trim Saw Setup--Plus Bonus Dopping Tips Tammy Jones is the editor of Jewelry Making Daily. Gemstone faceting has always fascinated me. What optimism and foresight lapidaries must have, to study an unexceptional
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Easily Explore a Year of Jewelry Design

Merle White is editor-in-chief of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist . When I read Lexi Erickson's September 24 post on Jewelry Making Daily about the five principles of jewelry design, I immediately thought about a pair of exercises we featured in Lapidary
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New Jewelry Making Daily Editor and a New Handcrafted Jewelry Special Issue!

Over the past six months since our launch, the Jewelry Making Daily community has grown phenomenally. We knew you’d love our mix of top-notch content—from Helen’s metalsmithing tips to Denise’s insider wire-working how-to's
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Enrich Your Jewelry Designs with the Spirit of King Tut

Helen Driggs is the Managing Editor for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist . When I was in art school, I was privileged enough to see the first exhibition of King Tut's treasures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. I marveled at the gold
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Make Masterpieces from Mistakes

Karla Rosenbusch is the managing editor of Jewelry Making Daily and associate editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. My new aqua terra jasper and Canadian jade necklace. See if you can spot the mistakes. I would love to tell you that all of my jewelry
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Karla’s Top Seven Jewelry-Making Picks

Karla Rosenbusch is the managing editor of Jewelry Making Daily and associate editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. Happy Labor Day, everyone! Do you have any big plans for the holiday? Personally, I plan to spend the day in my favorite way-curled
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What’s Your Wire Style? Take the Quiz!

Linda Gettings' 3x3 chain maille bracelet. Sara Richardson is a guest editor for Jewelry Making Daily . I'm often asked how I would define my jewelry style. For me, it's hard to define; I've had to explore many jewelry making techniques
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Get Your Free Stone Setting eBook!

Tom and Kay Benham's opal and lapis earrings from 7 Ways to Set Stones: Bezel Setting and Other Stone Setting Techniques . Karla Rosenbusch is the managing editor of Jewelry Making Daily and associate editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. There
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Intergem at Idar-Oberstein

Organiser Intergem Messe GmbH John-F.-Kennedy-Str. 9 55743 Idar-Oberstein GERMANY Phone ++49 (0) 6781 568 722 00 Fax ++49 (0) 6781 568 722 72 office@intergem.de www.intergem.de Venue Messe Idar-Oberstein John-F.-Kennedy-Str. 9 55743 Idar-Oberstein GERMANY
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Gemmys

The Gemmys are an annual contest for lapidaries presented by Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. Categories include: Faceted Gems Stones must be flat faceted; concave or convex faceted stones should be entered in the Specially Cut division. Cabochon Gems
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Lapidary World I

Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia 3 Plantation Avenue, 2450 E-mail: admin@search-the-world.com, Web: www.lapidaryworld.com Meeting Information: We have a vast data base of information about lapidary and associated hobbies including: gemstones
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International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA)

19 W. 21st St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10010; (212) 620-0900; fax (212) 352-9054; e-mail ica@gemstone.org. A nonprofit organization representing wholesalers, miners, and cutters of colored gemstones from 41 countries. The association's goal is to
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American Society of Gemcutters

P.O. Box 826, Beavercreek, OR 97004-0826; (603) 632-4826. Rick Ford, Director. Anglic Gemstone is the official publication.
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American Gem Trade Association (AGTA)

3030 LBJ Freeway, Suite 840; Dallas, TX 75234; (800) 972-1162; fax (214) 742-7334; e-mail info@agta.org. Douglas K. Hucker, Executive Director. The AGTA represents the interests of the natural-colored gemstone industry in the United States and Canada
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