Artist Index

Audrey Garden Lady: Page 2 Beadngems: Page 15

Crazy 2 Wear Designs: Page 22 Designed for Time: Page 12

Fine Windings: Page 6 Joy in Wire: Page 16

Karen Olwen Designs: Page 3 KSANDRA Jewelry: Page 22

MDavis Designs: Page 10 Mes illusions Baroques: Page 16

Miss Molly’s Designs: Page 4 M-ixes Jewelry: Page 4

Shaktipaj Designs: Page 21 Sweet Dreams: Page 11

Twisted Sister Creations: Page 11 Wired 4 Style: Page 25

Editor’s Notes: Page 1 I Need My Space!: Page 13 Puzzled by Pricing?: Page 7 Successful Selling: Page 5 Teaching Craft Classes In Your Home: Page 23 Thoughts about Copyright: Page 19 What To Do When Disaster Strikes: Page 17

Article Index

Editor’s Notes

Musings on numerical gymastics, featured articles,

and the new Ning

Lois Linquist ABeadedAffair.com

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A lifelong crafter with expensive taste, jewelry design was a natural move for Lois Linquist. She founded Copper Wire Jewelers in an effort to unite and connect with people who share her passion.

Through her online store, A Beaded Affair, Lois offers high-quality wire, findings, and beads for her fellow artisans’ designs

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Artist: AudreyGardenLady Shop: AudreyGardenLady.etsy.com

Copper is my passion. I love it's deep richness.

My designs are inspired by nature and I adore

using gemstones, yet I strive to keep it affordable.

Every woman should be able to wear gems!

Here are some of my latest designs-Hand crafted

wire wrapped Crosses and bracelets by

AudreyGardenLadyon.etsy .com

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Artist: Karen Olwen Designs Shop: karenolwendesigns.etsy.com

I have had a lifelong love of fantasy

literature and Celtic mythology - elves,

fairies, wee folk, dragons and epic quests

have always captivated my imagination,

and in my jewelry I try to combine this with

my love of nature to create unique and rich

pieces that you won't find anywhere else.

The Elven collar was inspired by Tolkien’s

Lord of the Rings series - it was constructed

with a soldered wire frame as a base, which

was then filled with wire netting. On this ground I

added graceful loops and swirls of wire

accented with rose

quartz beads. I then

oxidized the piece to

bring add depth and

character.

The cuff is a piece fairly

heavy gauge copper

sheet etched with a

beautiful Celtic knotwork

pattern, then oxidized to

highlight the design.

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Artist: M-ixes Jewelry Blog: twitter.com/MixesJewelry Shop: www.m-ixes.eu/

Wrapped Earrings with Copper, .999

Fine Silver and Copper artistic wire.

I formed Circles from 18 gauge Copper

artistic wire, wrapped all together with

24 gauge solid Copper wire, added

some antique Copper and .925 Silver

beads and a faceted 6mm Cubic Zircon

Dangle. The beads alternate, so from

one side the Silver will show more, on

the other side the Copper will show

more. For Closure hooks I formed wires

from .999 Fine Thai Silver. They will

secure in the open loops on the back,

very Safe. The bare Copper will oxidize

and get a nice Patina over time while

the artistic wire keeps it red Copper

shine.

The inspiration for this set comes from a visit to Key West some years ago. I remember worn and peeling paint on rows of pastel colored homes with decks overlooking the ocean. Each peeled-off paint chip was a work of art in itself, revealing years of color upon color as the cottage was reinvented by successive owners. I pictured weathered Adirondack chairs on the back porches where they could sit and drink iced tea as they watched treasure hunters stoop to pick up shells washed up on the shore. With that memory as my inspiration, I wanted to create the same weathered beauty in my jewelry. I started with layers of torch-fired enamel to build up the color on the copper that I chipped off and re-fired, revealing the copper and other color layers underneath the top layer as they all fused together. The result is exactly what I had hoped it would be: a weathered set that is comfortable to wear and is as casual as an afternoon in Key West.

Artist: Molly Alexander Blog:beautifullybrokenme.blogspot.com

Shop: mjalexander386.etsy.com

Successful Selling

Advertise Regularly: The second in a three-part

series on how to build sales and market your shop

Anna Lee Husband OracleGemDesigns.com

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Toronto jewelry designer Anna Lee Husband offers artisan gemstone delights under her Gahooletree, SassyDLite, and Anna Lee

jewelry brands. Anna Lee is a writer, business owner, wife, mom, dog owner, and marketing consultant who earned her Hons. B.B.A. at

Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON.

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Puzzled by Pricing?

The top ten pricing mistakes to avoid when it comes to placing

a value on your jewelry.

Danette Steimle FineWindings.com

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Danette Steimle is the designer and owner of Fine Windings located in the stunning Pacific Northwest. Somehow the lush beauty of the area always seems to find its way into her designs, as in the Canopy collection found on FineWindings.com. Danette is a business owner, editor, designer, wife, and mom.

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Copper wire and turquoise beaded pendant

necklace.

Copper wire wrapped around and woven,

adding a few beads, and a coyote, on a

copper chain with copper tube spacers to

form this necklace.

Artist: MDavis Designs Shops: mdavisdesigns.artfire.com

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Artist: Jane Christie Shop: twistedsistercreations.com

Eye-catching...?

This piece is made of a taxidermy

human eye sandwiched between two

pieces of copper sheet (one done with

repousse). The eyebrow is made with

some copper mesh I picked up at a

gardening store. I antiqued the

copper with liver of sulphur and

polished it up with Renaissance wax.

A fun piece, but not everyone's idea of

beauty...but it makes you "look"!!!

The goal of Sweet Dreams

is to create original pieces

that can either be worn, or

framed and hung on a

wall. Heavy metal jewelry -

light metal jewelry

designed to inspire new

dreams - as they reflect

organic images found on

my travels. With my

wonderful black dog by

my side I am sometimes pulled to look at things in the ground,

blown onto fences, or scattered on a beach that I might

otherwise have missed.

Personal wearable art, sculpture and garden art

keeps my husband, my dogs and me very busy -

and always on the look out for something

overlooked.

Artist: Susan-Jillian Smith Email: blackdogdancer@gmail.com

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Designed for Time

Matching DragonScale weave

bracelet and ear ring.

Artist: Lloyd Braunberger Shop: designedfortime.com Blog: designedfortime.blogspot.com

I Need My Space!

A stained glass & jewelry artisan shares advice on

creating your own work space.

Lois McIntire crystalwandcreations.com

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Lois McIntire specialize in Custom Jewelry, Stained Glass, Computer Aided Designs (CAD), Commissions & Stained Glass Repairs.

Based in Historic Kokomo, Indiana, her work is available from Crystal Wand Creations.

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Our first class will feature

Perri Jackson

Is now offering a series of wire and bead working classes throughout the state of Florida

Beadngems in Florida

Perri will be teaching the Soutache Braid in various levels and projects over the 3 days of classes.

Classes are being held at the Comfort Inn Universal Studios

Friday Evening, Girls Night Out 5 p.m to 9 p.m. October 15, 2010 Class will be Soutache Earrings. Cost of class is $60.00 which includes your kit, instructions and a light snack. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. which will allow time for meet and greet, and shop-ping with event hosts BeadngemsinFL.

Saturday Morning, Soutache Braid Pendant/Clasp, 8 a.m. to Noon. October 16, 2010 Classes will be Soutache Pendant/Clasp. Cost of class is $80.00, which includes your kit and instructions. Class will begin promptly at 8 a.m. Limited Seating to 15 students.

Saturday Afternoon, Soutache Braide Pendant/Clasp, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. October 16, 2010 Classes will be Soutache Pendant/Clasp. Cost of class is $80.00, which includes your kit and instructions.Class will begin promptly at 8 a.m. Limited Seating to 15 students.

Sunday Class, Soutache Braid Bracelet, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 17, 2010 Class will be the Soutache Bracelet. Cost of the class is $135.00, which includes your kit and in-structions. Class will begin promptly at 9 a.m. with a one hour break for lunch 12:00 to 1 p.m. Seating is limited to 30 students.

For more information and a registration packet, including hotel room rates for this weekend, please email Shelley Costantino at beadsngemsinfl@comcast.net

or you can download a packet at our website beadngemsinfl.com

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Artist: lilibulle Shop: etsy.com/shop/illusionsbarock Blog: lilibulle-illusions.blogspot.com

"la chanson de l'oiseau"

lot of fun making this necklace, The bird focal

is in polymer clay , made with a stamp that i

have designed, and painted with the "faux

ceramic " technique", little nest in copper too.

2 filigrees are combined with polymer clay .

Artist: Joyce Wenker Email: fjwenker2@cox.net

Joy in Wire

What To Do When Disaster

Strikes

A creative solution to a “ruined” enamel-on-copper piece using

copper wire and copper foil.

Linda Reynolds etsy.com/shop/ciaobela

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Linda Reynolds is the designer and owner of Bella Linda Designs. Linda started making jewelry over 10 years ago, and has a passion for organic shapes and materials and always strives for originality, beauty and functionality in her jewelry designs.

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Thoughts about Copyright

Changing our mental approach to creating jewelry.

Perri Jackson ShaktipajDesigns.com

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Perri spends her time bending really small wire into pleasing shapes for Shaktipaj Designs. She’s been doing this and other things like it

for roughly four-fifths of her lifetime.

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Artist: Perri Jackson Shop: ShaktipajDesigns.etsy.com

Blog: ShaktipajDesigns.com

Shaktipaj Designs

Soutache Swirls Bracelet

I love all the little details of embroidery, fine

tailoring, and wire - so it just seemed natural

to combine all of them!

Just recently fell in love with the beautiful

color variation in copper - I know, I'm slow!

This piece uses 30g copper coils over 24g

to create a beautiful fiber type braid in the

band - inspired by classic and ornate

soutache braiding on military uniforms.

Of course - there has to be bling included -

Bam! Swarovski to the rescue!

I write tutorials for all sorts of detailed textile

inspired wire projects - come visit my shop

and be inspired to explore adaptations of

your own favorite 'alternative' medium.

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Queen's Crown necklace and matching bracelet.

Two huge matched carnelian cabachons, netted

and joined with a deeply patinated snake chain, cut

into sections and formed into pleasing

curves.There is just a hint of bright copper for bling.

The oval components remined be of a crown thus

the name.

I collect the things I like then let them tell me how

they should look. I twist and poke until the pieces

tells me it is done.

Artist: LaMata Lewis

Shop: crazy2weardesigns.com

KSANDRA

Artist: Aleksandra Jovanovic Blog: ksandrajewelry.blogspot.com

Copper wire, glass beads

Teaching Craft Classes In Your

Home

Practical advice for conduct-ing craft and jewelry classes

out of your home.

Laurie Silva busycrowstudio.blogspot.com

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In addition to teaching craft lessons herself, Laura Silva also creates beadwork, wire wrapping and more for her Busy Crow Studios..

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This is an owl I call Chuck. He is named after a

friendly homeless man we met. I used coiling and

wrapping to make this guy. He is the biggest so far

in my owl collection. He's 3 1/3 x 2 in.

Artist: Terry Pugh Blog: wired4style13.blogspot.com

Wired 4 Style

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Copper Wire Jewelers

Copper Wire Jewelers Magazine, Issue 3, July 2010. Founding Editor: Lois Linquist (lois@abeadedaffair.com)

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