Challenges and Collaborations

The UncommonGoods Jewelry Design Challenge!

UncommonGoods is celebrating jewelry this month with a call to enter their 3rd annual Jewelry Design Challenge! I was recently contacted by an associate at UncommonGoods to share the details of their current design challenge. UncommonsGoods is an online shop based in NYC that promotes merchandise made by artists and small manufacturers. The company has […]

Wellness Words Jewelry Challenge

Welcome to my little corner of the Inspire Change: Wellness Words Jewelry Challenge hosted by Tracy Statler! A month ago, Tracy issued a jewelry-making challenge and blog hop – one with a great twist, a positive twist. In Tracy’s words, “It involves choosing a powerful word or phrase that is meaningful to you and […]

Adventuring into 2013

– Origami tops sent by one of my Uncles in Japan – Hello! Well here we are, a full week into the new year! With all that transpired in a week, I can hardly believe we were just ringing in the new year one week ago! It flew by with a nice visit […]

The Kalmbach Bead Soup Party

Hello! Today I have a little something to share – a project made for the Kalmbach Bead Soup Party. As you may know, Kalmbach is the publisher of Lori Anderson’s recently released book, Bead Soup. I was happy to contribute jewelry designs to the book and had fun participating in the publisher’s party as well. […]

The Do Over Challenge

Time for another fun jewelry challenge! Today’s challenge? The “Do Over” hosted by Jeannie Dukic! How’s this for a great idea: Jeannie sent us a piece of jewelry that she made in her early days that she no longer intends to sell. We were to take the piece of jewelry and run with it. It […]

Wrapped, Stacked & Layered Challenge

Tracy Statler of Make Bracelets issued a challenge, one that caught the eye of many of us in this jewelry community. We were challenged to make a collection of bracelets, stacked-wrapped-and-layered – sound like fun? In Tracy’s words: The trend of wrapped, stacked and layered bracelets has been around for awhile and it shows no signs […]

Copper Component Blog Hop!

In the midst of winter, I’ve been transported back to a sunny summer’s day. How did I get so lucky? I jumped at Kristi Bowman’s challenge and joined her Copper Component Blog Hop! For Kristi’s blog hop, the participants chose to work with either her sea-inspired Urchin or Ammonite components. Kristi’s copper clay components are […]

Bead Soup Blog Party time!

Thank you for stopping by the sweet bead studio corner of the great big Bead Soup Blog Party. The blog party is hosted by my friend Lori Anderson, and this is my 3rd time participating in this international event. Lori has created a blog hop (and it’s much more than a blog hop) that so […]

A Bead Soup Sneak Peak

Hello friends The very first thing I would like to say is thank you. Thank you for all of the heartfelt words that you left for me after my last blog post. Your stories, words of understanding, and virtual ((hugs)) meant so much to me and gave me comfort. Have you enjoyed seeing the many […]