Missed Tucson? Missing it fondly?
Either way, enjoy some snapshots we took.
18°? Those poor cactuses!
Enjoy our Facebook album of the Tucson bead shows!
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Tucson memories, 2011
Monday, February 21st, 2011
PDF Whatchamacallit?!
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010We’ve been having some fun conversations with our friends in Facebook and Twitter. Stuff like, “What do you call your craft area?” and “For you, is jewelry-making a business, a hobby, therapy, or _____?”
Now, let’s have a conversation here too!
What words do you associate with free jewelry-making information?
(For an idea what kind of info I’m talking about, please look at our info page.)
Leave a comment below, with your suggestion!
‘What’s the prettiest color (and shape/size) of crystals?’
Friday, December 10th, 2010‘What’s the prettiest color (and shape/size) of crystals?’
That’s the great question I was asked the other day.
I say 14mm crystal/volcano Cosmic Square rings…
…I know you’ll have an opinion. What’s your favorite crystal?
Comment below! Send a friend the link to this blog, so they can vote too!
Design challenge results: glass bezels, glass tiles
Friday, December 3rd, 2010Rings & Things just ran a design challenge with several of our Blog Partners. Look what they made!
(Note added on March 30, 2011: also see our next design challenge with brushed copper beads!)
We sent our crafty guinea pigs some packages of Rings & Things exclusive new items: glass bezels and glass tiles.
Krissi Sandvik used these glass findings to frame tiny reproductions of her own paintings:
Click to enlarge!
Armored Hearts came up with the inspiration of using up old beads that were lying around the workshop. They make some really fun patterned designs in resin…
Juli Nocita took two approaches, layering some ArtChix images into the glass bezels…
…and placing same-size glass tiles and glass bezels together to make an image “box”:
Suebeads made this magnet set with Tim Coffey special paper:
Click to enlarge!
Courtney Breul commented, “Loved the bezels, but the clear back can be difficult. You can see the bail.” (So consider covering it up with an image placed inside.) This concern didn’t stop Courtney from making all of these great pendants:
Mouse immersed some metal charms in resin on glass bezels…
…as well as painting unique designs on paper that she resin-ated onto the back of glass tiles.
She’s also contemplating an experiment where she’ll fuse metal clay onto these!
Faye Hadfield made, among other items, this cute Mom gift for her daughter:
What would you do with these exclusive glass tiles & bezels?