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Lost Wax Casting – Tutorial

September 25, 2012

We were pretty surprised when we found our favorite author Tammy Powley at about.com had written a useful introduction into lost cast waxing. We have posted on this subject before, so to round out an intro, we thought we’d post it. It’s a great step by step tutorial about casting that gives you a nice […]

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How to Make a Bird’s Nest Pin

September 18, 2012

We just love this bird’s nest pin with gemstone beads. The end result is wonderful. It requires some wire work and a little hammering. What is wonderful is surely you can try different jewelry wire, like gold-filled or sterling silver wire for this and your choice of wonderful pearls, emerald beads, or any round 3 […]

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Wow Wire Wrapping that makes you go Wow.

August 30, 2012

We we found this wire wrapping site – all we could say was … wow! Never has jewelry wire looked so elegant and nicely executed with unique and wonderful designs. It truly is a wonder. Her name is Ula and her website, wirewrapped.eu is a treat to look at. If you like wire wrapping, or […]

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Beginners Tutorial / Make Your Own Jewelry Cast / Recession Jewelry

August 21, 2012

This wonderful tutorial will give you brief knowledge on how YOU can design and make your own jewelry cast. Once you make your own design, you can take it to a jeweler to have your old jewelry cast and melted down to a new jewelry piece. You can learn, you can design something on your […]

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Sterling Silver Spoon Ring Tutorial

August 7, 2012

Find your own sterling silver findings by simply going to your local thrift store. Sterling Silver jewelry made from silverware has been around for a while but looks like it’s a stay. We are fascinated by all the tutorials out there regarding sterling silver silverware used to make jewelry. What caught our attention was finding […]

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Wire Wrapping Celtic Style – a wonderful pattern and idea with silver wire

August 2, 2012

We found this wonderful idea and short tutorial that we stumbled on. It is a wonderful way to explore with jewelry wire. I’m sure you can use silver wire, gold wire, copper, or now silver filled and gold filled. It has a unique Celtic pattern. It’s a little tricky but certainly do-able. Part of the fun of […]

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Unique Bead Ring Tutorial / create your own finding & bead ring

August 2, 2012

You’ll love this finding bead ring tutorial. We found it very unique. Also a beautiful idea. Great for those beads sitting around that may be odd but you love so much you just can’t throw away. We wish we had come up with this but yes, credit goes to Janice from the Jewelry Artists Network. […]

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Free Jewelry Making eBooks.

July 31, 2012

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Do you know the folks over at Jewelry Making Daily have a list of free e-books available? We must have overlooked it. Maybe we saw it before, maybe we didn’t. We can’t remember – age you know. Catching up to us. But, anyway, it seems like a nice long list of freebies to keep you […]

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That Silver and Wood ring sure looks nice.

July 31, 2012

Maybe we are a little slow on late breaking news but as soon as we found this unique wood and silver ring we fell in love with it. Congratulations to Ryan Quantz on his winning silver and wood design on the Aspiring Metalsmiths march metal challenge. very nice looking ring that is… http://aspiringmetalsmiths.blogspot.com/2012/03/and-winner-is.html

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Simple Yet Sweet. Make Your Own 14k gold hoop earrings

July 31, 2012

It’s the simple ideas we like. Those little bits of information you find are like pieces of gold to get the noggin goin on a new project or help weed through the chaos. We found this tutorial and we like how simple yet handy it is to create your own hoops. Great little metalcrafter, this […]

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