Fall is when the leaves come down and the kids return to school and our lives shift from leisure trips and backyard get-togethers to more indoor activities. This is also the time of year when we take more interest in enhancing our careers and our hobbies. On the topic of wire jewelry a new season is afoot and inspiration for creating new jewelry pieces has arrived. How will you take advantage of the
I should be drying my hair this morning instead of writing a blog post, the back of my hair will do it's weird wavy thing it does like in this picture of me in the Modern Art Museum (MoMa) in NYC over Thanksgiving - if I don't. But I'm throwing caution to the wind and writing it anyways! I feel like I have a history with this Picasso. In 2004, I started making painted beads and a homage to Picasso...
The story I'm working on puts a non-traditional spin on a well known fantasy trope (not vampires!). I'm writing for a teen audience, also known as Young Adult, or YA. I've been saving images to my del.icio.us and Google Reader...
Before you start creating your own jewelry, designing and planning is important. When you plan, always remember that you've got to be organized in all aspects as you go along with your jewelry making. Necessary tools and material are critical ; however, you do not just grab those things because you need them. Sometimes we make mistakes by employing the wrong materials ; an example of this is when we...
I'm sponsoring this month's Art Bead Scene Challenge which is a Lee Krasner painting. I chose it because I wanted to see more female artists in the challenge - so I went looking for one. Married to Jackson Pollock, she was overlooked yet she created an impressive body of work. I was able to see this month's painting in person when it traveled to my hometown as part of the Action/Abstraction exhibition...
So NaNoWriMo didn't really work out for me this year. I only got up to about 16,000 words and I really lost interest in my story. A big part of the problem is that I didn't plan beforehand. On November...
I am reasonably certain that you already have favorite stores online and offline for your beads and jewelry supplies. But , do you want to understand where you can simply find the best costs for them?
Every season has its popular items. For example, for jewelry, what jewelry is popular in 2009? The answer is tiffany jewelry. Colors and designs are all the aspects. Tiffany & Co jewelry never goes out of fashion and has new series to the public. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> If you want to be a fashionable people, it is important for
Every season has its popular items. For example, for jewelry, what jewelry is popular in 2009? The answer is tiffany jewelry. Colors and designs are all the aspects. Tiffany & Co jewelry never goes out of fashion and has new series to the public. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> If you want to be a fashionable people, it is important for
Every season has its popular items. For example, for jewelry, what jewelry is popular in 2009? The answer is tiffany jewelry. Colors and designs are all the aspects. Tiffany & Co jewelry never goes out of fashion and has new series to the public. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> If you want to be a fashionable people, it is important for
In case you don’t know or don’t remember, women love jewelry – jewelry of any kind. Some women even like to create their own jewelry. That’s why giving the gift of wire jewelry making supplies can be even better. Either way, you can shop online to find the right pieces or parts needed to give the woman / women in your life the best gift this year, or next. First of all, you
According to Wikipedia, The twelve days in the song are the twelve days from the day after Christmas (December 26) (Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day, as being the feast day of St. Stephen Protomartyr) to the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6, or the Twelfth Day). Although the specific origins of the chant are not known, it possibly began as a Twelfth Night "memories-and-forfeits" game, in which...
How can I add length to a piece of jewelry using extender chains? Learn about this and more in this free series of arts and crafts videos taught by an expert jewelry maker.
What do Delta, Wal-Mart and Sports Illustrated all have in common? Well, if you’ve walked into a Wal-Mart recently, flown with Delta or picked up the most recent edition of Sports Illustrated, chances are you noticed the pink ribbons that have so quickly become the icon for breast cancer awareness. October is the official Breast Cancer Awareness month and so it is being heavily publicized right
Going through my Grandmother's jewelry many years ago and trying to decide what I wanted to keep, I selected a classic design made with cable chain and crystals. I blogged about her necklace before focusing on the staple setting for each crystal. It's a simple necklace, cable chain, spring clasp and crystals. Looks to me as if the chain and settings for the crystals were plated or maybe gilded but...
Fall is when the leaves come down and the kids return to school and our lives shift from leisure trips and backyard get-togethers to more indoor activities. This is also the time of year when we take more interest in enhancing our careers and our hobbies. On the topic of wire jewelry a new season is afoot and inspiration for creating new jewelry pieces has arrived. How will you take advantage of the...
Every season has its popular items. For example, for jewelry, what jewelry is popular in 2009? The answer is tiffany jewelry. Colors and designs are all the aspects. Tiffany & Co jewelry never goes out of fashion and has new series to the public. If you want to be a fashionable people, it is important for you to know the fashion...
Every season has its popular items. For example, for jewelry, what jewelry is popular in 2009? The answer is tiffany jewelry. Colors and designs are all the aspects. Tiffany & Co jewelry never goes out of fashion and has new series to the public. If you want to be a fashionable people, it is important for you to know the fashion...