Share this:Our “Maillers’ Choice” kits have been such a sensation that we thought it would be fun to create some just for the Bead&Button Show this year too! Now is your chance to vote for your favorite color options for 3 different kits (one of which is brand new and won’t even release until the… Read more »
Category: Shows
Guess how many jump rings – the grand total!
Share this:We toted this big ol’ barrel of rings to The DIY Trunk Show this weekend to ask you to guess how many rings were in the jar. We had guesses from 1,000 all the way to 1,999,999,999 with the average being 213,408. Nearly 100 folks submitted their guess in the hopes of being the… Read more »
Cool people and jewelry at Bead Fest Wire 2011!
Share this:I’m just settling back from a great weekend in Pennsylvania at Bead Fest Wire 2011 by Interweave Press. Here’s a quick wrap-up of the folks I met there, along with some of their projects. Enjoy! Joe and Anat Silvera with Joe’s recently released book – Soldering Made Simple: Easy techniques for the kitchen-table jeweler,… Read more »
Ask an Artist: Melissa Banks talks about shows, jewelry, and life as a professional jewelry artist.
Share this:For this third installment of our “Ask an Artist” series, we had the pleasure of picking the very talented brain of Melissa Banks, chainmaille artist behind Rapt in Maille. Questions came from readers about everything from success and rejection to creativity and being a badass. Well, you asked and Melissa answered. I hope you… Read more »
Adventures of B3!
Share this:Even though many folks around us here in Chicago are in full, post-holiday hibernation mode, we’re not letting the weather scare us away from venturing out to get our weave on with you folks. Check out what we’ve been up to the past couple weeks! At the end of January, B3’s Kat Wisniewski had… Read more »