I'm eager to get back to the beaded bracelet project I had been working on before I left for the Bead&Button show. It is close to being...

and I have lots of new goodies listed in my Etsy shop! Bronze metal clay components galore are being offered. I love the tiny urchins...

just arrived and it's ready to fire up! The pieces I've been making with bronze metal clay over the past few days in anticipation of the...

that I've been using for firing metal clay for the past five plus years is starting to become temperamental. My last three firings of...

in a series that I've made using various components anchored on the egg and/or bird's nest theme. I've used a curved fine silver cast...

is the title of Tim McCreight's latest DVD . It just arrived in my latest order from Cooltools.us and I can't wait to watch it! Most...

Perhaps I'm being influenced by the fact that we have bird's nests in several areas on the outside of our house. Mrs. Robin has built a...

was the last class I took at Bead & Button. It was taught by Katie Baum and she has all the qualities a great instructor should have! ...

are the materials we u sed in Richard Salley's "Ancient Shield" class at the Bead and Button show last week. I like and am very familiar...

this is the second piece I made in Susan Lenart Kazmer's "Non-traditional Forms in Wire: Bird's Nest" class. It's a bangle of hammered...

are always tremendous fun and the class I took from her at Bead&Button was no exception. She is a blast! The class was titled...

I've returned home with! My s tash includes the tiniest seed pearls I've ever seen plus luscious, large keishi pearls in the most...

that I love jewelry making t ools, especially these beautiful hammers made by Bill Fretz. In my eyes, they are works of art in...

and I am really looking forward to my metals classes and shopping the floor show. It will be an exhausting week - it always is! Classes...

still horrendously expensive with daily prices fluctuating between $35 and $40 per ounce and that price does not reflect the additional...

is such a very sturdy stitch - one that I should definitely use more often! I do love working with right angle weave, peyote, and...

before I leave for the Bead and Button show! Fair warning...my Etsy shop will be put in vacation mode while I'm away so if you've been...

this is a sneak peak of th e materials for the next project I have in mind! It will be a cuff - I am definitely enamoured with...

turned out just as I had hoped! The clasp is substantial - one and a half inches in diameter. No doubt this will become part of a new...

again. This time I wanted to make a clasp that plays on the same theme as my flower disk embellishments. To accomplish this (shown top...