I know it isn’t jewelry, but I made this cute crocheted purse while following along with the learn to crochet lessons at Crafty Daisies. There was a link to a purse pattern in lesson #4, which I altered slightly, mostly by making it bigger and winging it on the ruffle part since I didn’t write [...]

The Pleasanton Craft Mafia is now the Pacific Coast Mestieri, and will represent artists and crafters all over California. We will still be hosting fabulous shows full of handmade art and craft throughout the greater bay area, so it’s really just the name that’s changed. Hope to see some of you at the Summer Splash [...]

My next show is coming up in just a couple weeks: Guerilla Fashionista, hosted at Foreign Cinema on Mission St. in San Francisco. This show is going to be *SO* much fun. Fabulous locally made clothing, jewelry, and accessories, plus champagne to sip while shopping, a DJ, and every purchase you make benefits a charity [...]

I dropped off a bunch of jewelry at the ProArts gallery in Oakland, CA last Friday - earrings, resin necklaces, freeform silver & pearl necklaces, and even a few rings!
ProArts is located on 2nd street at Clay in Oakland, close to Jack London Square. In the gallery store they sell jewelry, pottery, clothing, handbags, wood [...]

The latest edition of the Crochet Carnival is up!
If you aren’t familiar with blog carnivals, they are fun collections of blog articles related to a given topic - in this case, crochet. My bobble cuff is included along with a bunch of articles that I definitely plan on reading as soon as I’m done posting [...]

I’m very excited to announce that the Pleasanton Craft Mafia is doing a late summer show in Pleasanton on August 25th. This show is going to be a blast, as all PCM shows are, and will feature art and craft work by many of the very talented craft mafiosas I’ve featured on my blog over [...]

Joanna, another craft mafiosa, showed her original drawings and paintings at the southbay soiree.
Here’s a shot of her booth:

I wish I had gotten a good close-up of some of her work, because it’s really hard to see all the detail in her drawings from this shot. You can see her work on her website though, [...]

Here’s some fun jewelry from another Pleasanton Craft Mafia member, Jeannine of Designs by a Hummingbird:

Jeannine’s work is colorful, fun, and often intricately beaded as you can see in the photo. She also does metalwork combining different metals, such as copper with silver.
Here’s a shot of her booth from the show:

I made this pendant from scrap sterling silver, with a few freshwater pearls added. One thing that is really nice about working with metal is that it is easy to reuse scraps. In this case, I had some half-round sterling silver wire in a size that I just don’t use. I’m not really sure why [...]

This photo shows a sampling of Chel’s mixed media art (and one of her dolls). In addition to creating art, Chel founded the Pleasanton Craft Mafia and a large organization for mixed media artists called ZNE. She is definitely multi-talented! Scroll down a few posts for a link to her doll-blog story about the Southbay [...]