It was exciting and inspiriting to see Peggy's art nouveau and art deco jewelry these last few weeks! As a former dealer of vintage jewelry and general vintage lover, it was great to see a really refined collection and learn about the Arts and Crafts style. I love...
Do you have jewelry vision? Are you a top-notch designer waiting to be recognized for your fabulous jewelry designing talents? Then you are the perfect person to enter the MJSA Vision Awards Design Competition. MJSA stands for Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America, and every year they run this huge awards competition. Pictured above left is one of the 2007 award winners:
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I had someone email me the other day asking how to cut chain. Honestly, it's something I never really thought that much about before, even though I use chain fairly often in my jewelry designs. I guess that I just go at it with my wire cutters and don't really stop to think that maybe I'm doing it wrong or maybe there's a better way to do it and I'm just clueless about it.
So, I have...
Even if you don't normally feel like a metal chik, maybe you are more of a bead-a-cious babe, you can still get your metallics on with metallic beading wire. All the three big beading wire giants now make some very cool metallic colored beading wire, so you can match up your copper or brass beads with stringing medium to match. Pictured is Metallics by the Soft-Flex Company.
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Color selection is just as important to jewelry designers as it is to clothing designers, and we need to think ahead. Right now, we are in fall 2007, but what about spring 2008? What about fall of 2009? Sounds like it is so far away, but if you try to keep ahead with your jewelry inventory, you really have to think pretty far in advanced.
One resource for keeping up with color trends is the...
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