Gail's Tales...and Jewelry Design

My workbench turns into such chaos when I'm working.  I was thinking that I needed a bunch of small containers to hold all the little pi...

A while ago I stumbled on Austin Kleon's blog and a post called How to Steal Like an Artist .  A number of his points resonated with me...

I mentioned before that I'm throwing non-metal beads into the mix when I'm designing.  And with all the beads that I have in the hou...

Sometimes I just love spam e-mail.  I got this one today.... Re: Payment Notification: We are writhing to know if it's true that you...

I've just listed two shows that I have coming up.  In November I will be at the By Hand Show at the IX center and in December I'm at...

You've heard me talk about the Bead and Button Show before.  I've been going to it for the last 8-9 years.  I've learned a lot o...

When I started making jewelry, I created beaded necklaces...seed beads, Czech glass, silver daisy spacers.  My signature style was three-str...

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This is a picture of my workbench. As much as I try...I can't keep it clean while I'm designing. Neatness and creativity don't ...

YEAH....like I'm looking at the beads.....LOL. .

In this 2-day class, learn the secrets of transforming original photos or drawings into highly detailed, low relief images, which look simi...

These are spindle whorl beads. Here is the description of them. These come from ancient Mopti-Djenne (Niger and Bani River area). Reports ...

I've long had this theory that my carbon gives colors because I keep it in the laudry room, just sitting in a bowl absorbing all the sme...

....or maybe it's the fact that I left my carbon sitting next to the litter box for a few days.  Honestly all the talk about storing car...

I put a few things into the kiln last week and the result was all tans and pale greens.  I figured the kiln gods were feeling blah that day....

I've been cleaning up the studio....a reoccuring theme.  It never stays clean but it gets to a point where it is so disorganized that I ...

Below are the minutes from the discussion that took place at the Metal Clay World Conference about a single metal clay group Two volunteer ...

I have so many jewelry books stacked up in the studio that I want to read or study....but this book showed up on my doorstep yesterday and I...