With so few designers left, things are getting more tense than ever and so are the challenges. This week the designers were asked to make an outfit for an international jet setter type, which they later learn is supposed to be themselves. So they will make and model their own outfits. Jet setters or at [...]
One issue that most beginning metalsmiths or want-to-be metalsmiths struggle with is being too chicken to use a torch. You heard me. You’re chicken! Yellow! Whimpy!
Okay, I’m going to admit that I was totally freaked when I first handled a torch in my first official jewelry making class. It didn’t help either that we [...]
It’s tough educating yourself about the business side of running a jewelry company, and marketing is really critical to your success. Here’s another site that might help you learn some of the basics: BizAmmo.com.
This site is run by Jennifer Mattern and is new but growing, so it’s worth bookmarking it and signing up for her [...]
Leisure Arts is a book publisher, but along with lots of books, you’ll find some free projects on their site including this beaded anklet. When you go to their web site, look up at the top for a link to Free Downloads and click on that. You’ll find a link there for instructions to make [...]
I love this new necklace I recently made. All the beads and components came from Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. I call this project “True Blue Crystal Flower Necklace.” Keep an eye out for matching earrings and a bracelet very soon.
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Making Designer Mixed-Media and Memory Jewelry: Fun and Experimental Techniques and Materials for the Home Studio is now available on Amazon.com (just click on the title above to zip over there) for early ordering.
Now it says on Amazon that this book comes out in March 2007, but I was told May 2007. So I’m not really sure [...]
Some of the cool jewelry you’ll find in my next book, Making Designer Mixed-Media and Memory Jewelry: Fun and Experimental Techniques and Materials for the Home Studio, is the use of old jewelry as components for creating new jewelry. This is a wonderful form of recycling, and it can be fun to take an old [...]
Silver lovers are warming up to Argentium Silver, a low-tarnish version of the white metal that is so popular. Yes, it does cost a little more, but considering the overall cost of precious metals these days, that’s not that surprising.
A few years ago, I spoke with Mike DiRienzo of The Silver Institute about this new [...]
This week’s challenge for the 8 Project Runway designers who were left is to create an outfit for the everyday woman. Okay, no big deal, yawn even, until we learn who these everyday women are - the designers’ moms and sisters! And out they march down the runway. Everyone is very excited, but of course, [...]
Since I first read Guerilla Marketing, there has been a huge number of similar and spin off books published on this topic. The basic gist is that there are lots of ways to inexpensively market a business, and while not every single idea in this book will work for a jewelry business, I found [...]
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