While we’re cleaning up our websites, our jewelry making practices, and our business knowledge this spring, let’s add some info on alternative selling sites.
Sometimes it makes more sense to use a pre-made sales site rather than set up your own website if you’re just getting started in sales.  Sometimes you’ve got a website, but you want to handle sales separately.  And sometimes a selling site makes sense because of the extra traffic it can help generate.
Please don’t think that using a selling site is a free ride though.  They are not going to automatically bring the buyers to you…you will …read more

About.com Jewelry Making:
Hook up with a cute little fiber flower charm and necklace project! Combine your crochet and jewelry making skills.
Art Bead Scene
Hello Spring! Goodbye self-control!

Art Jewelry magazine
It’s video madness at Art Jewelry and Addie gives you a peek behind-the-scenes.
Barbe Saint John – New Jewelry from Forgotten Artifacts
Cindy’s Beads & Barbe’s Creativity add up to some great necklaces!
Carmi’s Art
Carmi sews crocheted flowered into a soft new collar.
Earthenwood Studio Chronicles
A special event inspired a special neclace, which now appears in a special issue of a bead magazine!
Jewelry …read more

Artist: John Medeiros
Website:
John Medeiros
John Medeiros, founder and CEO of Tahoe Jewelry, introduced the John Medeiros line in 2000 after having worked in the jewelry industry for many years. In 1984 Medeiros founded Tahoe Jewelry, providing the precious metals jewelry industry with intricate polishing and stone setting services during the day, while at night he was working on what would become the John Medeiros line-real jewelry hand crafted from non-precious metals.

The same techniques used when crafting fine jewelry are employed. In fact, the only
difference is the materials as the designs are inspired by classic looks.  John Medeiros jewelry is the …read more

Katie’s Beading Blog
Check Out Katie’s Fun and Flowery Spring Inspiration!
Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
April is Austism Awareness Month. Express yourself creatively!

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
A new double-sided sugar skull pendant from Anne Choi, inspires Andrew to create this new bracelet.
About.com Jewelry Making
Oy, may aching back! Tammy is de-stashing her jewelry and other craft supplies while on spring break. Here are de-stashing tips and places that need your jewelry supply orphans.
Art Bead Scene
This month’s challenge is Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.
Barbe Saint John – …read more

Betty Necklace
8″x5″x 3″
Ebony wood, White gold tube settings, diamonds magnetic clasp
Artist: Mayra Orama Muniz
Website: Mio Studio
Using exotic hardwoods as an expression of organic moving forms, self- taught artist Mayra Iveliesse Orama Muniz has created a line of jewelry that reflects on her life growing up in New York City and the more recent influences of the last five years living in Puerto Rico.
The many landscapes of her life — from modern industrial city to the tropical rainforests of Puerto Rico — have become her inspiration.
The miniature sculptures Muniz creates are a melding of richly textured woods and cool metals. Her …read more

Artist: Christine Haynes
Websites:
Fezelry Jewelry Designs
Fezelry blog
Christine Haynes is an award winning jewelry designer with over 10 years design experience. She has designed jewelry for magazines, photo shoots, fashion shows, and television.
Christine’s artistic focus is to create jewelry that is “uniquely you,” she creates each piece using hand-made techniques sculpting each item of jewelry individually taking great care in highlighting the beauty within the piece creatively incorporating multi-colored gems, sterling silver and sometimes the unusual in extraordinary, wearable art.

Technique Tuesday!
Here are some tutorial links to projects that use pearls, rose petals, and split geodes.  We’ve seen some incredible work so far this month, and I hope that it’s inspiring you to think outside the “glass”!

Making a pearl dangle pendant
How to make rosary beads
Turning a geode into a beaded pendant
Making a wrapped and bead-embroidered paua necklace

Artist: Theresa Turchin
Website: Turchin Jewelry
Turchin Love and Light Jewelry is as organic as it comes. We are a line of jewelry and accessories for men and women that incorporates natural weaving with hemp, leather, kabala string, all semi-precious stones including amber, aqua marine, garnet, fresh water pearls, black onyx, tourmaline, and moonstone. As well as precious stones including diamonds of all color ranges, rubies and emeralds.  We also incorporate antique pieces that we find in Nepal, Tibet, India, Africa, and Afghanistan into our one of a kind designs again reusing materials that create new art and new design.
Turchin Love and …read more

Artist: Sarah Dircksen
Websites:
Sirene del Mare
Etsy shop
Timeless pieces, that illuminate your inner romantic… Sweeping you away with the organic beauty of seafoam and watercolor skies…
Sirene del Mare jewelry is handcrafted with the finest materials, by designer, Sarah Rose Dircksen.

Artist: Alisa Michelle
Website: Alisa Michelle
Alisa Michelle Designs has been in business for over 13 years and have sold to hundreds of stores around the country and the world.
Currently the line can be found in stores such as: ICE (Sunset, Brentwood, Fred Segal SM), LF (Various locations in So. Cal), Studio Sebastian, Rosie True, Bodhi Bazaar, Rosebud (Japan), Moda Salon, Galena and many, many more.
We cater to a long list of celebrities such as: Halle Berry, Hilary Duff, Faith Hill, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Milian, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Brooke Burke, Taylor Swift and many more. Currently our jewelry will be featured …read more