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Adventures in Ring Design
Back when I first started making jewellery, there were no tutorials online – no pinterest, no craftsy, no jewelrylessons.com. So when I wanted to make a ring, I had to sort of figure it out myself. And...
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New Video! – Easy DIY Focal Bead Pendant – Quick!
Take a beautiful focal bead – such as these handmade lampworked artisan beads – and turn it into a wearable pendant in three minutes, using only some 20ga wire, your hands, and one or two tools!
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Wrapping Beach Glass in Clay!
I live on an island. For the past six years, a significant chunk of my income has come from wire-wrapping beach glass and selling it to tourists, or folks from here who have family away and want to...
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Colouring Clay
A friend took a trip into Artisans in the Attic this week and she pleasantly took some pics for me, which showed me that my clay pendants were getting low. Which means it’s time to make some more. She...
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Hair Fork – Copper!
I played with copper today! Created a fun new hair fork and some antiqued hammered circlets which I’ll use soon as frames for steampunk pieces! A fun little gallery of the antiquing process below....
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Clay & Beach Glass – Whoops?
Ever do anything super boneheaded? I’ve been sick this week but determined to make jewellery anyway. I didn’t have the brainpower for steampunk assemblage, so I figured I’d re-try my beach glass in...
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Rubber Stamp Carving for Polymer Clay
Oh boy. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. I feel like I’m getting sucked in DEEP to something new and delightful :) I first played with carving designs into some erasers, and of course immediately shoved them onto...
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Using Silicone Mold Putty for Polymer Clay
Earlier I showed you the beads I made from The Blue Bottle Tree’s tutorials (Rustic Beads and Organic Beads). Today I want to show you how these tutorials sparked me to go around putting purple goo all...
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How to Make Polymer Clay Tentacles
I’ve found a super great use for these Sculpey ball tools and the Etch N Pearl tools: tentacles! Everyone keeps asking me WHY tentacles but basically it’s a steampunk thing – like Jules Verne and such....
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Wire Nail Polish Flowers & Pendants
Recently I picked the topic “wire nail polish flowers” for a blog post a Craftsy, essentially choosing it out of a hat. I was highly skeptical… but as it turns out, it’s a BEAUTIFUL, simple, and way...
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Assemblage!
Have you ever wanted to do something really badly, and then when you get a chance to you stare at it blankly, not sure how to get started? I’ve been doing that with these assemblage steampunk pieces...
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Organic Faux Ceramic (Polymer Clay)
Earlier this week, I found this post on pinterest, linking to Poly Clay Corner’s post on what to do with liquid polymer clay. This led me down the rabbithole to this post about faux ceramic. Such a...
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Tyrannical Botanical Molds
I have been 1000% obsessed with the organic molds I made last week. But after that first batch, something went horribly, horribly wrong! Let me show you. First, here’s the exciting thing I was doing...
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Craftsy: How to Antique Jewelry in 4 Easy Steps
Hey look it’s another Craftsy post! I sure am writing a lot of those lately. This one shows two different ways to antique your copper and silver wire-wrapping jewelry. Read the full post for all the...
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Teaspoon Jewellery
Everyone knows what you do with old teaspoons if you are a jeweller: you turn them into rings or bracelets by wrapping them around mandrels. Well. You know me. I can’t do anything the same as other...
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Week One: Self Employed Artisan-hood
Pre-emptive Verdict: IT’S BRILLIANT. Day One: I went to the post office, set up the world’s fastest, easiest lightbox (seriously, have never been able to take photos like this so quickly), took a stack...
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Clay & Beach Glass – Whoops?
Ever do anything super boneheaded? I’ve been sick this week but determined to make jewellery anyway. I didn’t have the brainpower for steampunk assemblage, so I figured I’d re-try my beach glass in...
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