I listed a pair of amethyst earrings in my shop. (Remember my posts about jewelry demolition & the resulting revamped jewels? These are one of the pairs of earrings I made from old stuff.)
They are only $22.00 and there’s only one pair in this style. I might be biased, but I think they’d make [...]

Thanks so much to my fellow FAM (Fabulous Artistic Moms of Etsy) team member Yaffa Dreams for including my ring in this gorgeous treasury featuring the color black:

This is my third Thursday Thirteen post.
This week’s list is 13 Connections used in jewelry making. In other words, 13 ways to connect one small object to another.

glue
soldering
fusing
prongs
wire wrapping
rivets
jump rings
melting a ball at each end of a piece of wire
tiny screws
crimp beads
knots
hinges
stitching

Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!
The purpose of the meme is to get to [...]

And I missed it.
But, apparently I was featured on the Art channel of Talent Database earlier today. Such a nice surprise to see in my email!

The election is over, which means it’s time for the whole country to argue over whether the right person won, and which local issues should or should not have passed, but it’s also time for everyone to get back to doing what they normally do.
For me, that means getting back to making some jewelry. This [...]

I’m sure you don’t need a reminder - yesterday, every time I viewed a website with Google ads I was reminded of Prop 8, California’s controversial gay marriage initiative, and all the ads on TV while I was watching my current favorite shows (How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory) were political.
I’m [...]

Today, I am feeling inspired by the rainstorm we’re having. In the bay area where I live, it usually doesn’t rain between late spring and the end of October. Temperatures during that time are generally pleasant, ranging from cool to warm with a few actual heat waves here and there so that we [...]

I just read Fabric Jewelry: 25 Designs to Make Using Silk, Ribbon, Buttons, and Beads by Teresa Searle. Loved this book. Sewing is one of the few crafts I haven’t really gotten into, but not because I don’t want to - I just keep trying not to buy a sewing machine, or a dress makers [...]

The JET Holiday Sale continues until November 8th!
Thanks to Night Sky Jewelry for including one of my resin pendants in this all-JET treasury!

I didn’t dress up last year (although I thought of all kinds of funny costumes involving my pregnant belly) and it doesn’t look like I’ll dress up this year (unless wearing my gym clothes to a kid party counts as an aerobics instructor costume….) but here’s a photo from several years ago.
See the spider attached [...]