Adam drew his inspiration from 80’s-era Jean Paul Gaultier when he chose beads to design a necklace with beads from Beadaliferous, New York City’s bead shopping paradise. Watch as Adam gives a modern day feel and gives us tips and a how to demo on creating a beaded necklace.
Victoria's Double Flame Earrings with Amethyst and Topaz Beads
I am probably the only jeweler on earth who knows almost nothing about beading! For me, beading is all about adding a little sparkle to my otherwise all-metal jewels, as in the earrings above. So although I use some of the techniques that Adam showed in our metalchik how-to this week, I was excited to learn more about the fundamentals!
Adam did such a great job explaining everything that I feel that I only need add a couple...
Being able to make your own jewelry can really come in handy. First of all, you can make jewelry to match any outfit you have. That's pretty much an obvious benefit. However, I was reminded this week of another plus about the whole jewelry designer thing - making jewelry to go with jewelry.
I'm basically a jewelry addict, so while most of my jewelry I make, I also buy it now and then, such as this awesome necklace from Signals.com. On one side, it has a quote from Emily Dickinson, whom I...
Makeovers…who doesn’t love them? Our culture is obsessed…and so is Metalchik! I love to take something old and make it new. It’s like keeping the old soul and adding a cool new body.
While everyone likes a beautiful piece of antique jewelry, some old jewelry is just plain yucky. For those of you MY age (not telling!), the most dreaded piece of jewelry might be the stickpin. Wow, what DO you do with that? Well, while I’m still puzzling over that one, I’ll share my thought about other neat-o revamps you...
I think the saying "it's not what you know - it's who you know" fits in here some how because I recently got the inside scoop about some free new Colourcraft wire projects created by Margot Potter for the Beadalon website, which is being updated as we speak. Casual browsers of the site would not find these that easily because of the under construction stuff going on, but I have some direct links for you, thanks to Margot, to some fast and fun wire project:
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