Yeehaw! I’m done…free at last…at least for a little while.
I got the final manuscript finished and emailed and the last of the jewelry for the mixed media book packed up and shipped out today.
I’m not sure what to do with myself. Part of me says I could actually make jewelry now for a change rather […]
I’m still finding my way around podcasting. I used garageband.com for a few recordings but then had problems with the podcasts recording over each other. Plus, really, this site is set up for music people.
Someone recently told me about a spin off company created by the same people called Gcast. So, I plan to check […]
One issue that will come up when selling your jewelry on-line is how to get paid for it. This can be tricky. In the old days when I sold jewelry through Ebay, I finally just started requiring money orders. It seemed like the safest thing to do at the time.
But, technology has marched on, and […]
I finally got a chance to try out this really cool, literally, glue gun from Cold Heat. You can read a complete review of it here, but the “nut-shell” version is: no cord, heats up quickly and glue dries quickly, no burnt fingers.
I can’t tell you how many layers of flesh I’ve lost by using […]
When I first received this book to review from Interweave Press, I wasn’t sure what to think about it. I love fibers and so always thought felt making would be fun, but felted jewelry? Seemed like a stretch to me at first.
Now, granted, my personal jewelry taste as far as what I wear on […]
I took a few days of vacation from my part-time “real” job this week. When I told my co-workers, most said, “Oh, good for you. Have a nice time off.”
Of course, the days I’m taking off from that job are so that I can stay home and finish up working on my mix media jewelry […]
I get a lot of emails from jewelry makers, beaders, designers, and writers asking for advice about jump starting their careers. Some want to make a living from selling their hand-crafted jewelry. Others want to open a bead shop. And then some want to be freelance writers like myself.
While I do the best I can […]
Fairly regularly, I’ll get an email from a jewelry maker, or I sometimes suspect someone who doesn’t make jewelry but is under some weird impression that he/she could making a lot of money doing it, about jewelry buying stats. They want to know things like what sort of demographics describe the average jewelry buyer. You […]
While doing research for my dissertation (pinky swear that I was!), I discovered this really cool and inspirational site called Another Girl at Play. On this site, among other things, are a bunch of interviews with full-time working women artists. And, yippy, there is a jewelry maker included: Andrea Scher, a painter and jewelry maker […]
I haven’t seen much activity over on this podcast slash blog for awhile, but you can still go over and listen to past podcasts: Crafty Chica Podcast.
Kathy Cano Murillo runs it, and you may have seen her on TV before. For those who have wanted to turn their crafting into a career, her bio is […]
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