Turquoise earrings

Last week I was wearing one of my various sundry pieces of jewelry when a coworker called me over.
She was looking for a pair of short dangling blue-green earrings to match a top she had at home.
I could do that!
So I gave her my usual disclaimers:

I don’t work with precious metal
If they break I’ll fix [...]

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Stupid Beading Tricks: The hostess gift

The lovely and talented Kristen had us for Easter Dinner back in April so I decided to make her a little hostess gift.

The brown beads appear to be painted shells. There are little moonstone beads in between them. I made the clasp myself with non-tarnish silver wire.
And I think LGB – LadyGypsy Beads – [...]

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Stupid Beading Tricks: Wire Wrapped Pendant

Even though I don’t blog about it all the time, I’m still messing around making jewelry. My creations have gone from strands of nothing but beads to wire links and beads and now it looks like I’m enamored with mostly wire.
I always wanted to make a wire wrapped pendant but never could figure it out. [...]

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Stupid Beading Tricks: What a Sunday!

Yesterday, WM and I spent the entire day cleaning up the bedroom. We washed every last scrap of clothing, sorted the piles, put the piles away, dusted, vacuumed, etc. Sometimes I get an urge to clean and I can’t stop it. Unfortunately, those urges are few and far between.
All of that work yesterday left me [...]

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