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Art Jewelry Elements: The Price of Lampwork

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Tutorials and Favorite Posts. Monday, September 24, 2012. The Price of Lampwork. A lampworking friend of mine was threatening to sell her torch yesterday. Why? Wellthe answer is simple and it isn't. The simple part is that she hasn't had sales for a couple months and she needs the income. The difficult part has to do with pricing. There are some lampworkers.and to be honest, other types of beadmakers, jewelry designers, and artisans in every medium, who are WAY undervaluing their work. 1 hour (often more).

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Art Jewelry Elements: First attempt at working with gold

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Tutorials and Favorite Posts. Monday, May 18, 2015. First attempt at working with gold. For as far back as I can remember I have always preferred silver to gold, even as a small child when I was aloud to pick out a necklace or ring to wear from my grandmothers jewellery box, I would always pick out the silver pieces. Gold was yellow and I did not like yellow, simple as that, well until recently that is. Gold Body-Chain from the Hoxne Hoard in the British Museum. In the collection of the British Museum.

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Art Jewelry Elements: Pattern Review - Van Beads

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Tutorials and Favorite Posts. Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Pattern Review - Van Beads. Let me tell you a little about Jennifer of. I first "met" her when she was working with about.com. I loved how she made every stitch seem so easy to learn and at that time I was in the earliest of learning so this was majorly important to me. Then she became the. Online editor and to tell you the truth that was a bit intimidating to me so I kinda faded in the background and just became a. I had to leave out the pearl ...

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Art Jewelry Elements: How to Host a Charm Exchange

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Tutorials and Favorite Posts. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. How to Host a Charm Exchange. Before I started hosting charm swaps, I hosted fused glass swaps, sometimes it was fused glass ornaments, sometimes it was a 2" or smaller square that recipients could decide what to do with (magnets, jewelry, etc). This is the 4th or 5th year of the annual charm swap and Beads of Courage. Benefit auction (on ebay. If you've ever wanted to host an exchange like this, here are a few of my tips and tricks. 3) I create ...

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Art Jewelry Elements: Faux Roman Glass - a Free Tutorial!

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Tutorials and Favorite Posts. Friday, August 7, 2015. Faux Roman Glass - a Free Tutorial! I belong to a group, Beading Back in Time, and we have quarterly challenges. This quarter, the challenge was Early Civilization (3500 BC - 500 AD). I decided to make faux roman glass beads and share the tutorial with you. I'm assuming if you're a lampworker and you're reading this, you know certain things, like safety, applications, etc. This is a more intermediate tutorial. For the next step, I tumble etched my bea...

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Blooms and Beads: September 2016

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A journal of gardening and other creative pursuits. Thursday, September 29, 2016. Art Charm Auction and Reveal! Today was supposed to be the first day of the Art Charm. Where the proceeds go to a wonderful children's charity called Beads of Courage. It's an organization for "arts in medicine" that helps children who are seriously ill. This auction is organized by a lampwork artist, Jen Cameron of Glass Addictions. I added on a jump ring and wire-wrapped crystals in a coordinating color to finish them off.

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Art Jewelry Elements: How To Create A Facebook Destash Group

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Tutorials and Favorite Posts. Friday, May 15, 2015. How To Create A Facebook Destash Group. I'm getting to be "that age" where many people start thinking about downsizing their possessions and their homes. This is what too much studio stuff looks like:. Its not just that I'm a messy creative, its also that there is no place left to put things, so it just accumulates on every horizontal surface. In our new home, I won't even have a separate room for a studio, so where will I put all this debris then?

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Art Jewelry Elements: Playing with Leather

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Tutorials and Favorite Posts. Sunday, May 10, 2015. I don't normally like to advertise myself as a leatherworker.because I'm not! I reserve that hobby for my boyfriend, not for lack of ideas but rather because my hands do not like dealing with the tools. But recently Diana, our Suburban Gir. L, asked if I(we) could make a butterfly bracelet for one of her steampunk cosplay characters.well, how could I say no.beads were offered as trade! The next step was to add some detail to the veins that he had cut&#4...