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  • Third Time’s a Charm – Jewelry Making with the Kiddo

    Third Time’s a Charm – Jewelry Making with the Kiddo

    It. Finally. Happened. I made some new jewelry! I hope you weren’t holding your breath this whole time… Everything was laid out – beads, copper pipe sections, cord, glue – EVERYTHING. I *thought* about playing around and making some new pendants. I thought reeeeaaaalllly hard.  Then I put it all away because it was just…

  • Updating the Etsy Shop

    Updating the Etsy Shop

    Finally! New stuff is being added to my Etsy shop! And when I say “new” I mean jewelry I made a couple or more months ago and never properly photographed… It’s not that I don’t like doing it, but I don’t keep up with it. Then it results in LOTS of work to do all…

  • Copper Pipe and Impressed Blanks

    Copper Pipe and Impressed Blanks

    It’s time to take some poorly stamped blanks and make slightly better looking copper pipe pendants out of them! Are you ready? If you don’t remember the whole ordeal that was my first experience with metal stamping, you can find that here. TL;DR – if there wasn’t such a thing as a “rage pendant” before,…

  • Impressart! Metal Stamping is Hard!

    Impressart! Metal Stamping is Hard!

    **Before we get started – this post contains affiliate links!** Ok, metal stamping isn’t THAT tough – but it’s harder than it looks. This week I picked up a metal stamping kit by Impressart to try my hand at it. I have some ideas about how I can use it with my copper pipe jewelry…

  • Shifting Art Gears

    Shifting Art Gears

    October has just flown by! After the past few weeks of doing Inktober and Drawlloween and staying (roughly) on track, I realized that I haven’t done anything with jewelry, painting, or the site. Sorry about that!  It also got me thinking. I’m really loving drawing again. Not that I ever didn’t love it, but I’m…

  • Getting Started

    Getting Started

    Getting started – it’s tough isn’t it? Maybe it’s not the getting started part that’s hard, but getting the start that you want. I had a whole plan for the first blog on this site, all starting with this project I did turning an old book into my current journal. It was called “New Beginnings”…