Dream Life Designs Featuring Hill Tribe Silver
For designs featuring Karen Hill Tribe Silver, go to The Shop at Sandy Point Resort [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMtIyVHZBhk]
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For designs featuring Karen Hill Tribe Silver, go to The Shop at Sandy Point Resort [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMtIyVHZBhk]
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I did a Tuesday show once in Wisconsin where my jewelry was on display. It was one of the rare shows that wasn’t juried, and as a result there wasn’t a lot of high-quality artisans selling their creations. I believe the venue was called Crazy Days, and my beautiful jewelry didn’t fit in. Crazy Days
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Say it with me: SWA-RO’VF-SKI. Try it again. Take a deep breath, imagine you’re at the top of an Alp and let it go: SWA-RO’VF-SKI. I’ve been helping people pronounce this word—this brand name—ever since I started using Swarovski crystals in my jewelry designs. I used to care about it being pronounced correctly the same way
Hill Tribe Silver is made by the Karen Tribe in northern Thailand. This fine silver is 97.5-99% genuine, which is a higher silver content than sterling silver (92.5%). It’s therefore easy to bend and shape into forms. Oxidation, hammer marks, and slight design variances are part of the allure of these distinctive pieces. They can
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This Thursday, July 9, 2009, the annual Christmas in July Arts and Crafts fair will take place in St. Germain, Wisconsin. This will be one of only two juried shows I will be participating in this summer. I will bring with me my traveling jewelry boards, showing off all the latest creations from Dream Life
Amish quilters are known to occasionally slip a stitch in their beautiful patchwork creations, citing “only God is perfect.” As I made this necklace it occurred to me that it was simply too pretty. So I decided to slip a stitch–so-to-speak–by stringing a barely detectable design alteration. Hard to call it a “flaw.” The design
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The Gem Show is SLOW. It’s the response we heard today from each vendor when asked, “how’s it going this year?” Most cited as much as a 50% drop in sales, but one of my regular vendors said his sales were only down 10%. Unfortunately, his prices doubled and I ended up spending twice as
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