To balance out the more complicated earrings I've been drawn to lately, I decided to whip out a few super simple pieces this week. I pul...

As I try to increase my jewelry production, I'm exploring the idea of working with components. I find it much easier to sit myself down ...

For whatever reason, it seems I make earrings more than anything else, followed by pins and bracelets. I don't make enough pendants or n...

I still get blank looks sometimes from people who think that different silver clays cannot be mixed. From a chemistry point of view, all the...

Naming jewelry is always a tricky thing. I want a name that connects to the piece somehow, but after using birds in my jewelry for years, I...

I've been trying to get into a groove with earrings, both metal clay and Argentium. I just keep working back and forth between the two. ...

I have been plugging away at several new brooches, because I want plenty to select from when I submit images to " Behind the Brooch ,...

This week I wanted to create a signature piece of jewelry, one that would epitomize my work. I've made several small pendants lately, bu...

So you're wondering how to get from simple, beginning, generic designs to your own recognizable artistic style? The idea is to develop a...

I decided to play a little more with resin to add a jolt of color to some simple earrings. I started my experiments with my poor bubbled bac...

Over the weekend, I ran two more loads of sterling clay, with mixed results. I had the working theory after my failures last week that moist...

Although I've completed quite a few projects now in sterling clay, with minimal issues, this week introduced me to a range of more sever...

I was so close to putting a bronze carved treetop brooch into the kiln, and then I pressed an appliqué onto the back just a bit too firmly a...

The second treetop brooch came out the kiln with some minor issues of its own. First, there were a couple of branches that had breaks, one a...

My first set of repairs with sterling silver clay came out of the kiln yesterday. I wasn't sure how to approach it. Is it really necessa...

I totally love the new sterling clay! The idea that I can embed sterling posts for earrings or pearls or other attachments is just so appeal...

I have a fetish for the backs of my work. I want the reverse side to have as much care and planning as the front, so I often embellish it. E...

I ran another course of sterling clay through the kiln last night, technically finishing my Four a Month project on time, although I didn...