...I eat Mexican food.  And I've been so exhausted this week, which fosters little creativity, that I've been eating quite a bit of Mexican food. :)

I keep thinking maybe that burrito...or the taco...or even the lettuce, tomato and cheese just MIGHT inspire a new design.  It hasn't happened yet.  But tomorrow is SUNDAY.

SUNDAY is a very good creation day for me.  It seems I *always* come up with something new and exciting on a Sunday.  After the week I've had, I'm not sure it will happen THIS Sunday.  But I have hope.  I have faith.  The new idea will arrive!

In the meantime, I'm looking at my sword pendants and O Rings here on my desk, and feeling pretty grateful I came up with those designs.   I wore one of the sword pendants last night at my bowling adventure.  The idea was I would "slay" everyone...including our pastor...who, unbeknownst to me, appears to be a champion bowler. Or very close to it. I still did rather well, surprising even myself since I hadn't bowled in soooooo long.  And yeah, my body is paying for it today with soreness...I'll be limping into church tomorrow!

So as of tonight...I have no new idea.  I have a belly full of Mexican food though.  Perhaps I'll try adding some lemon cake into the mix?  Maybe the tart flavor will refresh my mind a bit and enlighten me whilst I sleep.

Stay tuned.  Tomorrow new ideas will come. :)

This month, I've released two new tutorials...The woven Sword Pendant, and the popular O Ring.  With Christmas coming up, this is a great time to expand on your jewelry skills and have some new and unique fun designs to offer your customers, or to make as gifts for your friends and family this holiday season!

Keep your eye on the tutorial page - I'm writing several more between now and the end of the year!

Also, check out the addition of our newsletter page...sign up to receive our monthly newsletter and you'll also be registered to win a FREE piece of jewelry!  One lucky winner is selected each month.

I spent months learning how to make these peapod jewels.  Of course, I was making the process much more difficult than it was.  :)  I had looked and looked for a tutorial on it, and couldn't find one.  Once I finally figured out how to do it, I decided to write my own and add it to my jewelry tutorial offerings, so others who would like to make peapod pendants and earrings could learn how as well. 

You can get the Woven Peapod tutorial on our tutorials page.

I plan on adding several more tutorials over the next few months to help others learn how to make some of these fun designs. :)

I'd have Christmas year round if I could. :)

Each year, I create one new Christmas tree pin or pendant design.  This year, I've created a wire tree pendant, adorned with gemstones.  This pendant features genuine garnet, and a vintage crystal dangling from the bottom for added glitz.  It will truly be a fantastic addition to your Christmas tree jewelry collection!

The design was inspired by a vintage Eisenberg wire Christmas tree pin and also the work of Swoboda jewelry (another vintage jewelry company) who used gemstones in their pieces. The two inspirations swirled around in my brain for quite a while, and finally everything came together to create this gorgeous tree.

The tree is available in my Pendants section. :)