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Featured Artist AJewell

opal and turquoise necklace handmade

I often hear about people that found their passion early in life and dove in with no looking back, but there are others that find their loves quite by accident! Such is the story of a lovely lady from Dublin Ireland and her love of beads. Annette was innocently waiting on a bus and had [...]

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Rasmussen Gems

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John Atwell Rasmussen   I am John Rasmussen. I was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, but we moved soon after that. My family lived in several different states because my father was transferred from assignment to assignment. As I grew up, I developed a love for geology and natural science. I have taught geology, then [...]

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Rasmussen Gems and Jewelry LLC, The Beginning

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Rasmussen Gems and Jewelry LLC began in 2008 when my wife purchased a parcel of gemstones from a television show. She brought them to me and said: “You’re the geologist, what are these?” Thus began my journey into gemmology. I queried the internet and found multiple textbooks and websites dedicated to gemmology. I purchased texts [...]

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The History of Mosaic Art

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In its modern form, mosaic means a mixture or montage, a design created by a composite of shapes; but its ancient beginnings are of function and design. Around 3000 B.C., mosaic designs were created with clay cones imbedded, point first, into columns of the Stone Cone Temple in Urak, in Mesopotamia. This ancient cone mosaic [...]

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Why Do You Create Handmade?

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Last summer Timothy Adam, Editor from Handmadeology, posted this question: Why do you create? I submitted my story and July 11, 2011, it was on the Handmadeology website. This is my story…. A few weeks ago, I received a message from a client requesting a pair of simple earrings to match the bracelet she purchased. [...]

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Featured Artist MixedKreations

Copper half cuff

I love to follow the path that some artists take to get to the craft they are truly passionate about and reading Linda’s story was no different. She has only been working in jewelry design for about 3 years but has learned a lifetime of lessons! She began, as so many of us do, with [...]

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