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Tiny Fake Landscape Jewellery

Tiny Fake Landscape Jewellery

Here’s a question for the creative jewelry artists in the crowd: have you ever used model railroad supplies to make a $1400 necklace? Some of the most astonishingly original pieces I’ve seen in ages (thanks to Di Overton for spotting the dangerously pretty rings) have turned up in Sarah Hood’s landscape jewellery collection — inspired [...]

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Make Your Own Faux-Rock Earrings

Make Your Own Faux-Rock Earrings

Dig out a pair of those earrings you never wear anymore — the ones that were a total mistake X years ago — and give them a funky new life as fool-the-eye faux stones. The secret is papier mâché, and the method is quick and easy. You might even get a bored pre-teen girl to [...]

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Two Bees (Beads) to Share

Two Bees (Beads) to Share

The bee on the left is one of my own honeybees. She lives in a nice white box in my yard and flies about visiting the flowers. Notice that the gentle honeybee, unlike wasps and hornets, won’t sting unless she absolutely has to, to help defend the hive or the honey or the queen mother [...]

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Spanish-Crafted Silver and Enamel

Spanish-Crafted Silver and Enamel

Sterling silver is always my first choice for earrings, and these Berenguela earrings top the list. A classic design is brought alive with tiny cups of silver, filled with hand-applied enamel in rich coordinating colours. Hand-crafted in Northern Spain, where there’s a long and justifiably deserved reputation for jewelry-making, the pretty pair sells for $35 [...]

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A Handy Tool For Chain Jewelry Designers

A Handy Tool For Chain Jewelry Designers

Don’t you hate it when you just can’t keep your chains in line? If you’ve ever wished for an extra pair of hands when beading up a chain necklace or bracelet, here’s the next best thing: Chain Stä is billed as the “stabilization solution” for jewellery-making charmers, holding each end of the chain securely so [...]

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