Jewelry & Beading

Tip #1 for Designing Jewelry Gifts

by Tammy Powley on September 17th, 2006

Here’s my first tip for designing a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry for a special person on your gift list: start wit a component. This could a charm, pendant, bead, piece of chain, whatever, but look for something that represents that person to you somehow.

For example, the brass pendant pictured is from Guyot Brothers, and I don’t know how clear it is on your monitor, but it says “August” on it. One of my sisters was born in August, so I immediately thought of her when I saw this. I plan to use it in a jewelry piece for her that I will hopefully get done by the holidays, and nope, she doesn’t read this blog, so I can share with you how I continue to develop the design. But, right now, this is where I start.

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