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My European Touch

Washboard Violin

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 [...]

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Article Marketing for your Handmade Business

article marketing for handmade business

Article marketing for your handmade business can be a low cost and effective way to bring traffic to your shop and/or blog. Just like guest blogging offers back-links to your website , article marketing gives you the opportunity to include a link back to your shop or blog in the biography box. What is Article [...]

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A Teapot Lamp is Born

Tea Pot

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 [...]

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Amazing FHFteam Giveaway

rainbow-twisties

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 [...]

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Where do you Keep Your Jewelry?

Jewelry Box

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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Vintage Remix!

Vintage Remix

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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