Handmade Artisans

Where do you Keep Your Jewelry?

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Jewelry is everywhere. There is estate jewelry, handmade jewelry, costume jewelry, high-fashion jewelry and everyone’s favorite– fine jewelry. Whatever your style, whatever your pleasure, you can always find jewelry. For those who adore jewelry, they can always find it somewhere. Even some grocery stores (we’ll keep it general– no free ads here) have a small [...]

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Creating a Pendant

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

For those who want to see the basic process for creating a piece of jewelry, here is a chronicle through the creation of a necklace pendant. First a brass blank was selected to put my design on. I had an idea about a “drop” of metal with a stone inset at the bottom of the [...]

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Wedding Delight!

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Classic Charm and sophistication! Perfect Wedding day and everyday selections flaunting signature woven pearl style, over-the top design, rhinestone brooches, and fabulous beading…wow factor indeed! Every piece has a story and as you embark on this journey why not participate with such Broochaliscious style…besides, your neck is just too hungry to pass [...]

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What’s In a Name – or a Label?

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

If you work in fiber for any age group or gender, there are regulations on what needs to be affixed to your finished product. This is especially true if your target market is children. The US Government doesn’t see that stuffed animal, that dress, that blanket/quilt, that hat as ‘art.’ They see it as a [...]

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Future Jewelry

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

In order to create my art, I first cut the stone that will go in the piece, then design around that. Here are two stones cut in the lapidary in the past week. The first is a piece of Lapis Lazuli about 2.5 inches long and it is very heavy. Will probably use it in [...]

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Vintage Remix!

Friday, November 25th, 2011

How do you do Vintage? The beauty in Vintage lies within the actual pieces’ ability to speak with you. Brooches are my favorite pieces to “Remix!” As I received these fascinating pieces Broochaliscious ideas took flight! Fabulous brooch finds placed together, offering total accessorization…just scrumpscious! Jewelry transformed with fantastic necklaces with the thinking “your neck [...]

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