Joan Tayler Design. Joan Tayler: Home. Joan Tayler Design. Blog | Humblebeads. Mojo Challenge Week 5: Jewelry Redos I took a little hiatus due to my travelling schedule. I hope you are all ready to jump in and start again with week 5 of the Jewelry Making Mojo Challenge. Let's rev up those creative engines this week! Your Assignment:Take apart a few older designs and use the pieces to create a new creation.
We all have that pile of jewelry that we have either fallen out of love with or it sat in a box because it was only 'meh' and didn't have the design punch we were hoping to achieve. So pull out those pieces, remember to snap a before photo and then get to work disassembling and then working your mojo. Tips for Redos:*Look for pieces that have special beads you'd like to reuse. Here is a must-read series on the 7 Principles of Design for Jewelry Making on Fire Mountain Gem's website.
Share your progress! What is the Jewelry Mojo Challenge? Bead Table Wednesday Finishing up some last minute Bead Cruise beads before I head out tomorrow. Vintaj Art Bead Partner Etsy. Lilruby jewelry | Jewelry design and who knows what else… Jewelry - Renlish. Hi there! I make jewelry and have done so for many years. I’m in the process of cleaning and rephotographing my current leftover stock and will be putting up pictures of everything ASAP. I’ll also have an etsy or MadeIt store fairly shortly, but until then, have a looksee at my pretties! Current and New: Previous Work: “Getifa Gems” used to be my jewelry brand.
(Sold.) Competition entry. Jewel School Friends. No Detail Too Small. My Mom calls it stubborn and argumentative, but what does she know? ANYWAY……. When people say things like "Loop size doesn't matter in Viking Knit – the drawplate will fix everything! It will all come out the same…. " My natural mercurial scepticism meter shoots waaaaay into the red. - I need to see for myself. Besides, how can I answer my students knowledgeably on just hearsay? So I thought up a fun little VK experiment, complete with control constants and numerical data just like the good little scientist-minded girlie I was raised to be…. The goal was to see if changing loop size would affect the finished length, appearance, and handleability of single Viking Knit. A knitting needle, size 10US which I used as my mandrel 3 6ft lengths of 24g dead soft copper some sincerely crapliscious colored copper wire wich is good for nothing except creating waste spacers in viking knit.
The single variable I *changed* for each section was making the loops a different size. So far, so good. Sparrow Salvage: Excuses Excuses - That Thing You Do and Why You Don't Charge Enough to Do It - part ONE. Yay for all the answerings on the last post! Valuable and interesting stuff, thank you- I digested it all and have come to 3 main conclusions; everyone hates business junk, no one makes enough money from their work and no one makes enough money from their work. Which is what I suspected! One of the reasons I started this missive (which has grown beyond my intentions, as you shall soon see) was because I didn't feel I was getting enough for my work. I resisted all efforts to counter it and yet constantly, silently, resignedly complained that my jewelry was priced at the same level of Target, which is an abominable situation.
I made quality jewelry using unique materials- if I were a charm on a chain kinda girl then yes, Target prices would be fine. But I ain't - and neither are you. So herein begins the giant adventure I'm about to lead you on. Are you ready for this? Are you sure? Okay- I hope that answer was yes because here we go! So I said to myself last week 'okay me, up your prices. Starry Road Studio. Art Jewelry Elements. The Gossiping Goddess. Francesca Watson Designs.
My Bead Journey. Linda's Bead Blog & Meanderings. Sue Beads. Blog | Jenny Davies-Reazor. After a long hiatus, I am thrilled to be back on track with the "Inspired by Reading" book group! For the month of March - we read "An Irish Country Doctor" by Patrick Taylor. It was a good read, quick, easy, and entertaining. It reminded me in some ways of a Maeve Binchy novel - in that there was a cast of characters, richly developed by the author, that I grew to like, and care about.
The story line, at times poignant, at times humorous, was driven by the characters... their growth, foibles, and interactions. As to inspiration - I was immediately making associations from this small town in Northern Ireland, set in the early 1960's (?) My mind seized on the idea of two. So where do we stand? To create the pendant I started with 2 copper discs, cutting in circular windows. Making the bail was more challenging. The thatched cottage is from an antique postcard, the blackbird is from a vintage Irish stamp.
Thanks for taking this meandering journey with me! Glass Addictions by Jennifer Cameron. Silverniknats. Tabbie Cat Tales. I Love Copper Solder! « Rings and Things. I recently got a chance to play with copper solder, and I LOVE it! This awesome copper solder is 7% phosporous (and 93% copper), which makes it self-fluxing. It flows and melts around the same temperature as hard-grade silver solder, so you can easily solder links, small bezels, and other basic joins with a butane micro torch. 16-gauge copper wire link with 18-gauge copper solder. Why do I love copper solder? #1: It’s easy! Jewelers have traditionally used silver solder to solder copper, but when using silver on copper, you have to be very careful so the silver seam doesn’t show. . #2: It’s inexpensive.
Copper solder is about 1/10 the price of silver solder: silver solder is around $40 per ounce, but you can get 4 entire ounces of copper solder for around $14. . #3: I have everything I need. I finally bought my own torch last year, but haven’t used it a lot yet. Blazer micro torch kit. How do you use copper solder? So, where do you begin? 2 links soldered, the next 3 ready to go. Coming soon…. Rock Candy Jewelry Design. Such a Pretty Mess. January 2013 ABS Challenge | The Beading Yogini. Peacocks…beautiful and captivating in all their splendor. Highly symbolic in many spiritual traditions (read more about that here.) Black Peacocks with Japanese Persimmons Jessie Arms Botke, 1940 Oil and Gold Leaf on Panel I really like the texture in the tail feathers in this piece of artwork.
For the January 2013 Art Bead Scene Challenge, I wanted to try to capture the texture and also the colors and the shape of the “eye”. I gave it a try using micro macrame knotting, seed beads and a few feather charm beads . I pulled out my wig jig and some wire to make part of the bracelet clasp and to get this project started. The end result is very light weight and colorful. Thanks for stopping by and do take a peek at what other participants have created this month on the ABS flickr site. An Artist's Year Off. Barbara Lewis - Painting with Fire Artwear. Memories and Thanks Blog Hop | Pink Chapeau Vintage Jewelry. Hello and Welcome to my Memories and Thanks blog hop creation.
This blog hop has been organized by Lori Anderson as a way for us to honor, or pay tribute, or give thanks to someone who has inspired us, or touched us in some way. You can read Lori’s original idea here. My piece orginally started out as a tribute to my little sister Kathy. But once I got going, as most things do, it took on a life of its own. I didn’t want my sister to be alone in my tribute, so I added my parents. Later, I decided to include my mom’s parents, and my grandfathers sister. These are the family who influenced me the most as I grew up, and all of them are now gone. My sister went into the hospital for a routine surgical procedure in the fall of 2009.
My sisters absolute favorite love was cats. The rose charm represents my mom, and her mom. My mom’s dad was a tinkerer, and an inventor. The compass and the star are for my grandpa. My grandpa’s sister was Jeannette, and my mom was named after her. Like this: Pretty Things. Pink Chapeau Vintage Jewelry | Adventures in Jewelry Creation and Sales. Jewelry Making Outside The Box. You fill in the blanks, first. Go ahead....tell me. What do you think? A great idea? A decent workspace? Skill and good tools? What do YOU think? I believe that all of those things are primary, extremely important factors.
I would add that you also need: If you do a great job and have a sturdy design, chances are great that whoever wears your design is going to enjoy it for a long, long time....if you use the 'good stuff' to make it. Quality work is NOT just skill and a good design coupled with meticulous finish work. ** You also have to use the best findings you can afford.** It's not worth putting all that time into something only to have the product fail because you went on the cheap with the stuff you used to make it. Today's market is full of cheap product made of soft mystery metal and garish plating finishes. It's hard not to be seduced! It's true, I am the owner of B'sue Boutiques and have a vested interest in the components trade.
These pretty flower brooches are marked Sandor.