I was working on a piece of jewelry yesterday and noticed that the metal curved a bit. My intention was for it to be straight. We’re talking about a curve of maybe ½ a millimeter. But do you know where my brain went immediately?
“Okay, here’s one for the garbage pile.”
Then I stopped myself and realized I was going against everything I believe in…. and I’d been GOING there for awhile now.
Here’s what I tell OTHER jewelry artists, “It’s not SUPPOSED to be…
The other day, we were discussing something in the SRAJD forum. Someone casually mentioned they were looking to purchase the kind of finding that goes on the end of those necklaces like those multistrand Native American chokers.
I cut a circle(ish) from a piece of scrap leather that I already had in my workshop. I use pieces of scrap leather and suede between things like my…
The Collective Consciousness of Jewelry Making
You know what’s worse than discovering someone out there is selling jewelry almost identical to yours? Finding out they’ve been doing it longer than you.
Just goes to show that more than one person can come up with the same idea.
Sometimes people think in similar ways. It just happens.
There’s a thing called “multiple discovery” that is described as: “… the hypothesis that most scientific…
I recently ran across these great videos by Cyndi of JewelryFX that do an excellent job of explaining Etsy promotional listings.
Cyndi's explanations makes sense and she doesn't have those 5-10 minutes rambling introductions like some video tutorials do. Her instructions are right to the point and don't waste time.
Cyndi also has blog posts that go along with (or are instead…
I'd like to thank those who are providing additional information and suggestions for my testing. These first two rounds of testing were not definitive in any way and there's still lots of tweaking and more options to try.
Please note that I did not "heat cure" the ProtectaClear. I followed the manufacturer's directions.
In order to cover as many bases as I can, I…