by Gail DeLuca | Oct 30, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros
If you make jewelry, you will be asked to do a repair. It happens. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, rest assured that it will. Sometimes it’s as simple as restringing an inexpensive bracelet on elastic. Sometimes it’s in-depth, a multi-strand...
by Gail DeLuca | Oct 15, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros
Congratulations to all the winners! Class 89 – Jewelry Lot 01 – Wire Wrapped Katie Kinney Marcia Minton Kristal Ray Julia Sherman Donna J Calhoun – 1st Laurel Johnson – 2nd Christa Keyes – 3rd Lori Martin – 4th Lot 02 –...
by Gail DeLuca | Oct 1, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros, Miscellaneous Musings, Projects & Cool Ideas
The project: I completed this piece as a bracelet using the Bead Spinner and a whole lot of seed beads. It wasn’t until I had tied and trimmed the many strands that I realized it was too long to be a bracelet. Normally I have no problem ripping a piece apart...
by Gail DeLuca | Aug 14, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros
Getting into beading as a craft and getting to the point where you feel comfortable and confident in calling yourself a ‘beader’ can be quite the process. Beading and jewelry-making is a whole world unto itself, full of its own celebrities, history, lingo, and...
by Gail DeLuca | Jul 15, 2014 | Projects & Cool Ideas
We’ve been making dragonfly earrings for years using Tierracast’s awesome dragonfly wing beads. We even had kits for them way back in the day. We’ve since phased those out, but the beads are still cool! So here we are with another take on the...
