After writing for Jewelry Crafts magazine for I don’t know how many years, I think this is the first time one of my jewelry pieces made the cover!
Along with the project for the necklace pictured, I also have two other articles in the October 2006 (dang, Oct. already?). One article is about jewelry and beading weblogs: “Blogosphere: Jewelry Makers in Cyberspace” and not only do I mention this blog, of course, but I’ve got a number of other bloggers mentioned in there as well. If you are just now starting to figure out this whole blog thing and wonder how …read more

One of the complaints I often hear from bead stringers when it comes to beading wire and crimp beads is that they don’t like how it looks when finished. They don’t like the fact that you can see the wire.
For me this has never been an issue, but I have to say I still think the new wire guards from Beadalon (pictured right) are pretty cool. Top that off with the crimp covers that came out this past year (pictured left) and I think these might be just want bead stringers who don’t like the look of beading wire were …read more

I know a lot of jewelry makers and beaders have experience with other crafts. In fact, some are equally interested in other crafts, so I thought I’d pass along the news that b5media.com (who hosts this blog if you didn’t know that already) is looking for a rubber stamper to take over its stamping blog.
If you are interested, write to the Arts and Crafts Channel Editor: Christina Jones – ebeautydaily@gmail.com

I’ve seen a number of bloggers doing this (like his Lord of shoes The Manolo), so I thought it would be fun to maybe try it out and possibly do it each week. Mine, of course, will be more geared toward beaders and jewelry makers.
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