After creating my "Marine Life" beaded brooch in lime/lavender/turquoise , I just had to make another! This time I opted for a  brooch...

And here it is...my “Marine Life” Bead Embroidered Brooch tutorial is finished! And I’ve assembled several limited edition "Marine Life"...

The results of the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads 2015 Jewelry-Making Contest featuring Seed Beads have finally been announced. ...

Although it's a wonderful material for making beads and jewelry components, epoxy resin clay does so much more! I've used it for mending...

It’s lovely to finally have a few free days to do whatever I please! I spent several days last week making metal clay embellishments and...

She's dancing the Tarantella, turning cartwheels, rushing to and fro, bombarding me with ideas for new jewelry pieces. Lately, my mind is...

Practically everything has an expiration date.  When it comes to art supplies, thankfully metal lasts forever!  Polymer clay may get a...

LJJA is short for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine and my "Sea Flower" pin/pendant is in the April 2015 issue...pages 30 through...

I’ve just finished proofreading the tutorial for my “Fire Dragon” Wrap design (inspired by Kate McKinnon's book, " Contemporary...

A scheduled surgery could not happen at a more inopportune time...smack dab in the midst of the holiday season! Thankfully, it is not a...

I never know what goodies I’ll come home with from Bead & Button! Besides purchasing a new Fretz hammer with interchangeable heads, this...

I’m in the midst of working on a new geometric cuff, but I felt the need for a brief interlude. My incentive was a project that could be...

The last five days I've spent at the Bead and Button Show have been fun-filled, exhilarating, exhausting, and awakening. I've met with...

I haven't really had an entire day to bead in the past three weeks! With the arrival of warmer weather, many chores have demanded my time...

I've been weighing, packaging, and labeling Delica beads, measuring lengths of memory wire, and making tiny seashells molds for both...

This earth-toned Variation of the Sea Dragon wrist wrap is coming along nicely (albeit, each row for a piece of this length is taking...

I could easily have made this choker with polymer clay, but given the size of the beads, I wanted them to be as lightweight as possible....

That’s the title of an article in the 2012 issue of “Handcrafted Jewelry” magazine .  I’d been experimenting with Epoxy Resin Clay when I...

I've been making jewelry a long time.  Having learned with basic hand tools, I was happy enough to use them until I started doing shows...

That's the title of this mixed media piece.  A slithery little serpent (say that fast ten times!), made of polymer clay, twines around a...