Jackie is a medical technologist in Upstate New York. Her full-time day job is working in a hospital lab, but that’s not where her heart is — she’s hiking in the Adirondacks.
And she’s turning the inspirations of nature into jewellery, twisting wire around beautiful stones and pearls and beads to create striking bracelets, necklaces, [...]
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When you’re looking for a craft tutorial, nothing’s better than a good clear how-to video. This one, from Rochelle Dahl, shows a simple way to make polymer beads. The project is easy enough for beginners and kids, but the results — as the video shows — can be stunning and quite sophisticated.
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Polymer clay is [...]
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Could a piece of jewelry get any less attractive?
Seriously.
That’s a real question. And it’s also the whole point of the Ugly Necklace Contest put on by Land of Odds, now in its 6th year.
I’m thinking, just off the top of my head, of a Cleopatra-inspired collar necklace of old stogie butts, [...]
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