Featured Artist T.Rusk4u Most people in this day and age have made, what they would concider, friends via the internet. Sometimes, those friends become very special to you over time which is the case of a very talented jewelry designer who passionately supports the handmade movement! Teresa grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan before […]
The shop continues, Debora is doing the bead work, she keeps very busy and her work is fantastic. She labors over each bracelet, anklet, pair of earrings and necklace. She has great ability to create and design this work. She loves creating pieces that have a great combination of colors. While she continues her work, […]
This is going to be a real short and sweet post. The Handmade Artists’ Shop is giving away a Free Shop for Life! Our lovely friend Pearl at the Beading Gem is hosting this giveaway for us, all you need to do is visit her blog and comment there are also rules for extra entries […]
Well our wonderful developers have been at it again and did a quick redesign of our facebook page. We try to promote as many of the posts and listings as we can on various groups around facebook to help get the maximum exposure for each product, but sometimes time gets away from us and we […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Several people have asked over time to see what I start with and then what has been produced. While Debbie and I were in Helen, we went gem mining. One of the rough stones we found was a piece of amazonite (feldspar). I decided to make a cabochon (18×13 mm oval) that would fit a […]
My main computer bit the dust last weekend, so I sent it off to HP for repair. That meant that I had to use the slower backup computer, so I have not been doing too much online. I also evacuated my online shop and am re-shooting all jewelry for better pictures and will be reopening […]
Purple Passion involves Fluorite and Amethyst cabochons which were cut this week. I started Monday morning cutting three amethyst, one fluorite and one ruby cabochons. I have finished cutting the cabochons, and have completed two as necklace pendants. First to be examined will be the Fluorite. This gemstone is quite soft (Moh’s hardness = 4) […]
