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Jewelry & Beading

April 29th, 2007

Too Adorable Potato Chip Bracelet!

No, I did not make this. I wasn’t clever enough to dream it up. It’s a bracelet made with potato chip bags. Check it out at Craft Bits. Talk about mixed media jewelry!

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By Tammy Powley -- 0 comments

February 14th, 2007

Jewelry Has Left the Building

…Or, actually, today the jewelry for my new book, Making Designer Mixed-Media and Memory Jewelry: Fun and Experimental Techniques and Materials for the Home Studio, will be out the door and off to Fedex and onto all the great mixed media artists who helped with this book. I’ve got 25 packages going out today. I’m […]

By Tammy Powley -- 1 comment

January 25th, 2007

Mixed Media Jewelry Book on the Way

Wow! This has been a great week for me. I’m seeing my jewelry all over the place lately. First, Beadwork, and now I just got my latest baby in the mail yesterday from the publisher. This is my review copy, so I’m supposed to look through it and find any errors so they can fix […]

By Tammy Powley -- 4 comments

January 18th, 2007

Creative Palette is Here!

One of the things I told myself when I finally graduated is that I will be free to start participating in arts and crafts and bead shows. Not that I did a whole lot of that before I returned to school, but there are so many conventions these days that I feel I should really […]

By christina -- 7 comments

November 20th, 2006

Designing Christmas Ornaments

I love making tree ornaments. Every year when we put up our tree and decorate it, I enjoy seeing all the ornaments I’ve made over the years. I also make ornaments as gifts, giving them out to editors, teachers, people who have helped me in my writing and jewelry career. Last year, I made the […]

By Tammy Powley -- 0 comments

October 16th, 2006

New Mixed Media B5 Blog

Finally, it’s a - live!
I mentioned just recently that I had an annoucement to make about my fellow blogging buddy Cyndi Lavin, and now that everything is in place I can finally give the details: Cyndi is now part of the b5media.com family with her mixed media weblog called Layers Upon Layers.
You’ll see the ocassional […]

By Tammy Powley -- 2 comments

August 27th, 2006

Mixed Media Book on Amazon.com

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 […]

By Tammy Powley -- 0 comments

August 26th, 2006

Recycling Old Jewelry

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 […]

By Tammy Powley -- 0 comments

August 14th, 2006

More Jewelry and Beading Blog Categories

So many jewelry making techniques, so little space and time!
I’ve add two new categories to this blog: Fiber Jewelry and Mixed Media Jewelry.
Enjoy!

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August 13th, 2006

Felt and Chain Mixing It Up

I have a new felt and chain necklace project posted on my About.com site. The felt is actually rope felt that I got from Ornamentea.com - Very unusual stuff. The large linked chain used in this project also came from their web site.
It’s pretty hot outside, so it’s kind of hard to imgine wearing felt […]

By Tammy Powley -- 0 comments