Using bottle caps as bezels for resin is a great way to make jewelry without spending a lot of money on materials. If you are just starting to work with resin, I recommend using bottle caps for your practice pieces – they are free, and you probably have some lying around your house. Plus it’s [...]

Remember my post on resin collages? Well, I finally got around to doing something with one of my collages.
I cut out little rectangles exactly the right size to glue onto these little balsa wood tiles. Using mod-podge, I affixed them to one side of each of four tiles. (Note: the tiles ended up curling, so [...]

My regular readers are probably familiar with my 3D resin pendants – but embedding objects in resin in only one of its many potential uses in jewelry making and other crafts.
For example – it is a great medium for making collages, and because it stiffens and seals paper, creating a collage with resin is a [...]

Have you ever wondered what the inside of a dvd player looks like? Honestly, I never had. But then my (cheap) dvd player broke, with a netflix movie stuck inside it. So…I took it apart.

One of the screws was on so tight that I ended up breaking the plastic exterior, and then I figured it [...]

My old digital camera (a Sony Cybershot that I had for almost 4 years) broke, and since I’m running a business that operates partly online, I really needed to replace it quickly. I liked the old one a lot – it was easy to use, and took pretty good pictures of my jewelry, as well [...]

One of my latest resin pieces, which I just finished over the weekend. (It is for sale in my my etsy store.)
Because I make my resin pieces using deep bezels for a three dimensional effect, they can take several weeks from start to finish, with thin layers of resin and found objects built up one [...]

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 [...]

Since resin jewelry is so different from metal jewelry, I thought it would be useful to post a few tips on caring for it.
Resin is a kind of plastic, so it can be cleaned with water and hand soap or dish soap – very easy!
Resin jewelry doesn’t need to be polished. If it starts to [...]

Resin is an alternative material that is gaining popularity with jewelry and mixed media artists. There are many different brands of resin available for artists and crafters to experiment with.
The basics are the same though – follow the mixing instructions given by the manufacturer (resins come with two parts – resin and hardener – [...]