Custom Cool Jewelry
by Melinda Barta
Melinda Barta came up with a brilliant idea for this fun book. Instead of spreading her many talents out too thinly, she concentrated on just three areas: pendants, charms, and clasps.
It’s often hard to find exactly that perfect piece to customize your jewelry, and if you can make your own pendants, charms, and clasps, you can add them to readily available lain beads to create a masterpiece that is distinctively yours. Melinda includes over 275 quick and easy ideas for mixed media components as well as 7 full stringing projects. Once you start …read more

Make Art Monday

A Stitch in Time,
using beads and cabochons from Earthenwood Studios (see below)
Some folks say that Steampunk is dead, but I don’t agree, and neither do many of you! I’ve received requests for more more more of this funky style that combines Victorian sensibilities with steampowered technology. Steampunk merges the two into an alternative future where steampower still reigns. I love the look, because it allows me to combine many of the elements that I love the most into a form that stops short of being completely masculine. Not that steampunk can’t be masculine, but not usually in my …read more

“Discovered Objects and Jewelry d’Art” is the tagline of this delightful Etsy shop, featuring steampunk style jewelry that is beautifully made. Sometimes “steampunk” ends up equated with “sloppy”, but that just shouldn’t be. And it is certainly not the case at edm.designs!
I am especially taken by his rings, but that’s only the beginning. You will find necklaces, bracelets, pendants, pins, cufflinks, and earrings as well.