Creativity can never start too early, as Shelley’s grandmother found out. While she was busy doing laundry, a very young Shelley was busy using a safety pin to remove all the pretty gemstones from her grandmother’s jewelry! She was not being bad; she just saw all the pretty colors and wanted them for herself, and […]
Grandpa, some ninety plus years young, sat feebly on the patio bench. He didn’t move, he just sat with his head down staring at his hands. When I sat down beside him he didn’t acknowledge my presence and the longer I sat, I wondered if he was OK. Finally, not really wanting to disturb him […]
By Beverley Start, March 2012 I’ll be enjoying one of those afternoons where I will be cruising the internet and finding inspiration again and again, meeting new artists, and just loving the access we have these days because we’re all online. I mean, it’s such a wonderful thing that we can interact with artists across […]
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 […]
My newest treasury… there are so many absolutely talented artists/artisans .. here in Etsyland… from painters.. photographers… crafters…. beaders…sculpters… seamstresses…just to name a few… people that are so visually keen… have a sense of style.. proportion… just know what works!! .. We are the small folk… no big corporation behind us .. but we are […]
I found this discarded formerly silver plated teapot at a small shop and it was just begging to be transformed. Fortunately a client had seen my other teapot Lamps at my flickr site…. She fell in love with it and ordered one . I started out cleaning up this teapot, sanded, ruffed it up a […]
Do you ever doodle? I do it all the time, not on paper, with stones and wire. I use my wire like a paintbrush to create my art jewelry. I consider and call myself an artist I just use a very non-tradional approach:) I suppose like most creative people I am a bit eccentric,LOL!! I […]
Hi there, my name is Jolene Wolfe and I am a lampwork bead maker. I have been a member of www.frithappens.co.uk, a UK based lampworking forum since 2007 and in 2009 I started a forum based Etsy Street Team called FHFteam . Each month we have a prize giveaway on our team blog and this month it […]
It is no secret that the right jewelry which you can get from Gema & CO can really help you stand out in a crowd. Jewelry makes the perfect accessory and can transform any look into the ideal style. However, it is easy to get lost among the masses even when you feel you are wearing […]
As with many places, Debora and I tend to work in spurts of creativity. She will look at her beads and wire over and over. Then she will see a way to put together a piece. In the past week, she has made several beautiful pieces of wearable art. Here are two of her creations […]
