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  • Taking Your Online Store to the Street – You’ve Been Accepted! Now What?

    Taking Your Online Store to the Street - You've Been Accepted! Now What?

      You got that email/letter/phone call, and WHOO-HOO, you've been accepted to that perfect-fit show! And then panic sets in... Not to worry! You should have some time between now and then to get organized. You'll need to remodel your business into a whole new venue. A good place to start is to take a mental tour of your inventory. What is it that you sell and how do you display it in person?  In cyberspace, your 'display' is single-item photos. In ...

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  • My European Touch

    My European Touch

    Born and raised in Germany, I have been an artist all my life and worked with a lot of different mediums; been a mosaic artist for 9 years now. I specialize in doing mosaics using a style referred to as "Pique Assiette or Tesserae" This process involves transforming vintage china/porcelain plates into artistic designs that are always one of a kind and my own. About me, the Artist: Growing up in Germany shortly after WWII; watching my parents re-use, re-cycle, ...

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  • Featured Artist ColettesBoutique

    Featured Artist ColettesBoutique

    There is a special gift that allows some people to combine different types of gemstones and silver in a way that is absolute perfection in every way, jewelry that does not scream look at me! Yet you can not help but notice because of the intricate elegance. Colette is one of those special people who have managed to work within this delicate balance of intricacy and style to create a line of jewelry that any woman would be proud to ...

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  • Featured Artist Eryka Garbutt

    Featured Artist Eryka Garbutt

      Eryka describes her work as Pappier Cole, which means using paper in other ways than the usual. This term was new to me and I had to really stop and think about how we use paper and what else could you do with it? Nothing like meeting an artist that really makes you think for a second about such a common item. Eryka admits her heart races a bit faster when she plays with the colors and textures of paper ...

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  • Featured Artist Blue Highways

    Featured Artist Blue Highways

    There are many passions in the world, but for Andrea, fabric and books make her go weak in the knees; or, according to her friends, her drug of choice! So, what does one do with such an addiction? Well, create of course! Andrea started off right with an extremely creative mother that had to try her hand at everything once; and always with a faithful Andrea standing by to help.  This creative encouragement has followed Andrea and encouraged her to try ...

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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Online Exhibition

Posted on July 16, 2011 by gemlover

Beauty

Online Exhibition: “Beauty Is In the Eye of the Beholder” “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder” showcases 247 images chosen from entries from over 55 artists representing North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Central America, Africa and Eurasia. The drive to adorn the human body is surely as old as human kind. From [...]

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HAF Iron Chef Challenge

Posted on July 8, 2011 by andrewk1969

Haffina

This is our forth forum wide challenge and the theme was centered around the tv show Iron Chef! Our artists were given a specific set of rules that are listed below, your challenge as a voter is to pick the artists’ work that most closely represents the rules. So you have a tough job, since [...]

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Saga of Life

Posted on July 8, 2011 by gemlover

TourmilatedQuartzRingOblique

In the continuing saga of making jewelry for my wife (she does get first chance at anything done), she chose two stones to be turned into cabochons the then jewelry.  The smaller tourmilated quartz was to be a ring, and the Peruvian blue opal to make a necklace.  After the lapidary work, the opal was [...]

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Sell Handmade Online for Less

Posted on July 7, 2011 by andrewk1969

handmadeartistsshop

Selling handmade online can be expensive, with all the listing fees, commissions and monthly fees some sites charge their is no room for profit. The Handmade Artists’ Shop is trying to change this as we only charge $5.00 a month with no listing fees and no commissions. That is less than 17 cents a day [...]

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Why I Knot Between the Beads

Posted on July 6, 2011 by admin

beadbear

Knotting between the beads is important for a variety of reasons. Bead stringing, properly speaking, is a form of rigging. Where a knot is placed, it strengthens the cord three-fold. Consequently, if cord with a tensile strength of 17lbs. The cord is strengthened to 51lbs.10lb-test becomes 30lbs, etc. Thus, it secures the beads. This is [...]

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White Peacock Creations

Posted on July 4, 2011 by admin

Butterfly

We started doing business in Jan 2011.  I am a jewelry designer. All of my pieces are “One of a kind”.  I love the warmth of natural rocks. The more jewelry I make the better I like working with wire wrap and gemstones.  View my creations at www.whitepeacockcreations.com. We can create unique pieces to match [...]

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