Ok……….. so it’s no great secret to those that know me or have read articles about me in various places, but I was, in my previous life in London, a self taught financial accountant. I worked for many years in the advertising industry and ran multi-million $ accounts. Yes, it was stressful and looking back, […]
As I have aged I had the privilege to see many advances in technology with One Click Power. Astronautics from the orbit of Sputnik, the landing on the moon to space stations and shuttles and recently the Mar’s rover. At the same time, slide rules giving way to calculators to personal computers. Data input changes, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 meeting her husband […]
John Atwell Rasmussen, AKA GemLover, is an amazing talent that combines gemstones and metal to show off the best of each element. John has always had a love of collecting rocks and minerals, but only began creating wearable art in the last few years. John did major in geology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am new to Handmade Artists Shop and the Forum blog. So I though I would give all of you a short blog to start off by, providing my links to where I sell and what forums I belong to: Handmade Artists’ Shop: http://handmadeartists.com/shop/MyriadDesign Etsy:http://www.etsy.com/people/Myriaddesignjewelry?ref=si_pr Blogspot: http://myriaddesignblog.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Myriad_Design-Artisan-Crafted-Jewelry-and-more/211888015504463 Artisan Jewelry Designers: http://artisanjewelrydesigners.ning.com/profile/LindaEkblad Twitter: […]
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 […]
