Stupid Jewelry Tricks: The Loreli

I have a good friend who plays World of Warcraft and is also an artist! One evening I was watching her livestream a piece she was doing featuring her elf, Loreli.
The colors were so vibrant that I was inspired to grab my beads!

I popped it in the mail without telling her and she received [...]

Stupid Beading Tricks: The pendant, finished

My first go at the pendant Friday night was disastrous. I couldn’t get the wire loops to fit within each other like I wanted. Funny enough, it was WM who came up with the solution. “Do you have smaller wire?”
Yes! I did! So I moved from having a 14 gauge outer loop and a 16 [...]

Stupid beading tricks: The pendant

There was a Kay Jewelers store commercial on TV around the holidays – it was for a pendant called Love’s Embrace. I’ve never been a diamond girl although I’ve had some pieces in my lifetime. But this one just looked neat.
But you know what would be neater? If I could do something similar out of [...]

Stupid Beading Tricks: Christmas Tree Earring Giveaway

Ready to die from cuteness?
The lovely Kristen emailed me last month asking if I could replicate these earrings that she saw on Etsy. Uh, sure! It took me a bit of time to find the materials, and I found out that it was better to buy in bulk.
And now I have quite a few [...]