Posts Tagged ‘gunmetal chain’
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
We thought it’d be fun to share paparazzi photos of Rings & Things beads on stars.
Then we thought, why not feature some Bead Stars?!
Good Advice
Erin Prais-Hintz won second place in Bead Star’s “heart designs” division. Her whimsical “Good Advice” on pages 26 and 71 to 72 cleverly deploys quite a mix of Rings & Things items…
Beads:
Findings:
Wire:
Erin is a Rings & Things blog partner, by the way!
Falling Leaves
In the “pearls” division, second-place winner Susan White’s “Falling Leaves” (pages 38 and 77-78) mines a vein of copper tones…
Fragile Love
Another R&T blog partner, Heather Powers, won third place in the “gemstones” division with her Fragile Love (pages 57 and 86), backed up by these Rings & Things items:
Beads and such:
Findings and stringing materials:
Carnelian Garland
Finally, Mary Harding McCallion scored an honorable mention in the “stones” division with her Carnelian Garland (pages 58 and 86 to 87). Mary shows that you want trusty findings to back up your fine focal pieces…
For gemstone bead combinations like the ones in Mary’s garland, check out Rings & Things’ selection of:
(PS, see the magazine for the wonderful finished projects!)
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Also known as Garland Street (in Spokane)!
Two Rings & Things artisans are featured in an art show celebrating the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz”. Appropriately held at the stalwart Tinman Gallery in Spokane, this OzVitational exhibit showcases artists’ unique takes on the legacy of Dorothy and friends.
Sondra Barrington, our Sales manager by day, mixed found objects with quality vintage-feel findings for a steampunk bracelet titled “Flying Monkeys”. Like a wearable video clip (from the scariest part of the film!), this piece sports stills from the classic movie transferred onto copper stamping blanks.
When monkeys fly out of film onto charms!
Some R&T stock used in the bracelet:
Kurt (Metalman) Madison is our Art Clay Silver certified expert. He and partner Margot Casstevens created a collaborative print/sculpture/jewelry piece that the Inlander newspaper called
“one-of-a-kind pendants — ruby slippers, a yellow brick road, the heart so sought after by Tinman himself — hang[ing] from inside their gray weathered box. A knothole in the wood becomes the “O” for Oz and the wood itself is said to be from Dorothy’s Kansas farmhouse…if you let yourself drift to where childlike wonder lives, you can almost believe.”
The exterior of Kurt & Margot's "OZ BOX"
Many other gifted artists are in the show, too. So if you’re in Spokane any time this month, head to the Garland District for a visual treat!
Tags: antiqued silver beads, art clay silver, bead showroom, bead shows, BeadTour, copper blanks, copper head pins, copper headpins, copper stamping blanks, copper wire, flying monkeys, gunmetal bracelet blanks, gunmetal chain, gunmetal disk & loop chain, gunmetal jump rings, gunmetal jumprings, idea-ology, image transfer solution, jump rings, kurt madison, margot casstevens, metal stamping kit, ozvitational, sondra barrington, spokane inlander, stamping blanks, tim holtz, tinman gallery, win-ox, wizard of oz
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Thanks to a number of kind people who talked about Rings & Things in the last week…
Bead Origami has already made some splendid beaded beads she shows in her blog, that use amethyst just bought at our trunk show.
In other tour-related blogging, KJ at the Silver Parrot tantalized us with a promise to show off her discoveries at our latest bead show. AJ at Erthefae managed a mini-vacation to our BeadTour show and to the Bead Museum in Arizona…lucky! SoftFlex Girl Sara also managed to visit us at the Phoenix show, and blogged about it.
Heather at Humblebeads paired some Rings & Things brown lava beads with some cool, lustrous-toned beads and a striking handmade wing pendant in her Earth Angel necklace.
Heather also posted a nice-looking “Luna Flor” (Moon Flower) bracelet design at the Art Bead Scene blog. Dawno at Dawno’s Beaded Badge Lanyards devoted one day’s post to interviewing me. I’m humbled… She also wrote up an informative review of Rings & Things’ black rattail cord!
Tish over at JustATish wrote up a nice project using some of our hammered-oval gunmetal chain for a necklace and matching earrings!
Margot Potter put up a fun design of her own, the Peekaboo mixed-media necklace, at her Impatient Crafter blog.
A discussion over at Etsy about “what free gift do you include in your sent-out orders?” mentioned our candy in a positive light. The conversation generated a huge amount of response, by the way, and is really worth reading to get your marketing gears turning.
Thanks so much to everyone who found us worth talking about this week!
May giveaway:
* You enter by leaving comments this month
* At the end of May, 2 winners will receive coveted Rings & Things goodie packs!
*So read the blog regularly, to enter a lot & to see if you won!
Tags: As seen in, bead origami, bead shows, beads, BeadTour, brown lava beads, Dawno, erthefae, gunmetal chain, hammered oval chain, humblebeads, impatient crafter, justatish, lava beads, margot potter, Rings & Things bead shows, silver parrot, softflexgirl, thanks
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