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…
More on Picasa offenders
Mary Tafoya’s written another great entry about the abuse of Picasa, ideas for thwarting offenders, and a great poll. (I’m voting for report as offensive, and I think I’m going to send emails to publishers or authors, if I can figure out contact info — I know it’s a boring answer, but it might accomplish…
Small pendant
For a friend…. Okay, now I really want to buckle down and figure out a more substantial project to do next. I like doing bigger projects, but sometimes it’s hard to start them (and then there’s the stage at about 2/3 complete, where the end never seems to be in sight). I have a Jo…
Some more bead blogs
My latest additions to my feed reader and to this blogroll…. Handmade by Erika Lisa Businka Charlene Miss Bristling
Beaded Mask Exhibition
A half dozen or so people I know participated in this exhibition, put on by the Beadin’ Path in Freeport, Maine. Everyone started with the same white plastered paper mask, and look at the results!