Jewelry Blog

Diva Craft Lounge seems to focus mainly on scrapbooking and stamping. However, they have craft-related podcasts for pretty much all craft lovers, including recently one for us jewelry making folks, which include Impatient Beader and jewelry book author, Margot Potter.

Check out this and other crafty podcasts on their web site some time.

We’re up late now…it’s Christmas Eve, and we’re waiting for our daughter to at least pretend she’s asleep. We’ve already gone through the whiny repetoire of “I was reading and I had to go to the bathroom.” You parents know what I mean. And we’re so tired our eyes burn. I think next year we have to make a rule. Once she goes up, that’s it. Lights out, li’l missy. No going to the bathroom. Santa takes refunds.

Since we need to wait a little longer before we can lay out the bounty of Christmas shtuff around the tree, I decided to post some pictures that I finally got around to taking today. Some of these pieces I’ve had a while, a couple are brand spanking new as of this week.

Have a Merry Christmas, and I hope you get the one thing you asked for.

“Fuschion”

“Desert Roses”

“China Girl”

The snaps worked great on these peyote bracelets. But only by accident did I find out.

I wanted to try regular snaps, the kind you would sew on clothing, instead of a jewelry clasp.  I was sewing away, in my own little peyote world, half watching and half listening to the TV when I realized I had sewn both sides of the snap on the underside of the bracelet. Hello!! How ya goin’ snap it now? Unless I pinched the ends together and snapped. That would look really stupid. And I was NOT taking all that thread out.

Lightbulb!! I get a lot of lightbulbs appearing over my head. I must look like an idiot like that Arby’s man. The solution was to add another snap on top of the one already sewn!! I used a small jump ring to connect the ends of the second snap. To remove the bracelet, just unsnap one side. It works great. And I love how it does not add any additional length to the bracelet.

 AFTER

BEFORE

Here’s how the snap looks.

       

So… these three are done.  Next up.  The half finished Rivoli bracelet before I go off into the night sewing on my neglected Janome.