As I said in yesterday’s post, I think it’s helpful to keep an eye on fashion trends in general. It’s all about immersing yourself in a world you want to be part of, even if it’s just selling your jewelry at a little ol’ craft show down the street.
To that end, I’ve added a long [...]
The line between the fashion world and the wearable art designer has always been sort of blurry. Are we part of the fashion community who often wear our products, or are we on the outside since we wearable art designers are responsible for crafting fashion goods. How important is it for designers, for example jewelry designers, to keep [...]
When most people find out that I write four blogs plus maintain my About.com Jewelry Making web site, which has a blog-style front page, they think I’m insane. That alone is a lot to handle. Add to that the fact that I’m writing a dissertation for school, work a part-time job 20 hours a week, [...]
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 [...]
Funny how I managed to get “unisex” and “quickie” in the same blog post title, huh? ;)
But, I’m talking about cell phone charms again. Not only can these be unisex jewelry items depending on the materials you use, but they are nice quick projects, a little something to tuck into a stocking or give out to [...]
Men are notoriously difficult to buy or make something for as far as gifts. Most wouldn’t mind a number of electronic doo-dads, but you basically have to be a rocket scientist to figure out all the RAMS, ROMS, etc that go with whatever their dream machine is. Plus, of course, that stuff isn’t cheap either. [...]
With only a few designers left in this episode, emotions were running wild and it didn’t help when Heidi invited the designers to a party where they would meet two guests and find out the details of their next challenge. At this point, all they know is that it is a cocktail dress. Of course, [...]
I’ve spent a lot of time posting project ideas for holiday related themed items like ornaments, and while these make wonderful gifts to give around the holidays, there is also the option of making specific gifts for specific people on our gift list.
Therefore, I’m going to turn my attention to gifts we can make for [...]
Ruby is basically the web queen of seed beading, and she’s got tons of great, free projects on her site. This is just one of many. She calls this her Wreath/Circle Motif design.
Like all the other projects I’ve been posting lately, this is an easy beginner’s level projects that you can make pretty quickly. Notice [...]
Beadshop.com has a free project on their site which incorporates this wire form and some beads. They, of course, sell all the supplies too. You could try to make the wire form yourself, but considering they sell these in packages of 8 for about $4, it might not be worth the time to do that [...]
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