Category: Not beads

  • Making designer jewelry with hardware, gems, and beads

    Okay, I want to go to the hardware and/or surplus store again! This brand new book is great fun. I have used rubber grommets, rubber O-rings, and pyrex connectors as parts of jewelry — and seen cotter pins and other non-jewelry components used in jewelry. The author of this book, Nichole Noelle Sherman, has a…

  • I’ve been tagged

    Mary has tagged me. Her answers are on her Multiply blog. Okay, here, we go: What was I doing 10 years ago? Same family Same house Same job Younger! What are 5 things on my to-do list for today? (You caught me on a boring day, Mary. You should have asked me on Monday!) Grocery…

  • Duct tape!

    Okay, there’s a story here: I had a piece accepted into Beadwork’s The Beaded Figure, their 2005 juried show. I was lamenting that none of the show’s touring locations were near where I lived, and good friends in Manhattan invited me to stay with them so I could see my piece in the show, in…