I love how a really beautiful bead can make a fairly simple design *work* so well. One of my favorite simple earring designs is to dangle a great bead or two from my oversized hook earwires. When I got my latest shipment from Artbeads of Swarovski crystal beads (and yarn! they make yarn with Swarovski [...]

These cute little spiral earrings are completely handmade from Argentium silver wire. See the little space at the bottom? That is so I can add dangles to some of them (or, if you are a jewelry maker yourself, but don’t like making earwires, you could customize a pair easily for a more fancy look than [...]

For the last day of August, here’s another addictive Youtube channel to browse through: Art Jewelry Magazine. If you make jewelry, you might be familiar with the magazine, which publishes jewelry techniques and projects using a variety of media. Here’s a sample video to check out, on piercing (in non-metalsmith language, this means essentially drilling [...]

I just found out that I was featured (or at least one of my pieces was featured) on the Found Handmade blog. The theme of the blog post was “caterpillars” and they picked my caterpillar pearl cluster pendant! Thanks for the feature!

I wasn’t planning on making any new jewelry designs in June, but…then I got a request for a custom order, and started making some options of earrings with gold colored freshwater pearls. I really love how these turned out: Buy a pair for $20 + shipping: My customer likes them, but the look she’s going [...]

Yesterday’s post was a photo of my newest earrings in progress. I started with argentium sterling silver wire, made some rings, attached wires to use as earhooks, added some texture, shaped the hooks, smoothed the wire ends….for a fairly simple style, there were actually quite a few steps involved. I don’t use solder in my [...]

Here they are, my latest earrings, a hoopy style that is worn like a hook: They come in four sizes (so far) ranging from 1 cm circles (a bit less than 1/2 inch) up to 23 mm circles (2.3 cm or 7/8 inch). The hooks all come down slightly more than an inch in back, [...]

An (almost) wordless post on a Wednesday, to share the newest additions to my online shop. Smaller versions of two earring styles, plus very cool spiral earrings that remind me of a treble clef.

Now available at michon.etsy.com: This necklace is part of a new line I’m working featuring lots of hammered curvy shapes I’m making into earrings and pendants. The loose spiral shape is something I draw a lot when I’m doodling – and I decided I might as well translate it into some metalwork pieces. The matching [...]

My Itty Bitty hoops made Timothy Adams‘s Top 10 today! Yay! Tim runs several fantastic blogs about etsy, handmade goods, and the business of selling handmade work. I don’t know how he does all that AND runs a successful etsy shop, but somehow he manages.