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An Expert Guide to Making & Selling Jewelry

The WJA Student Scholarship Application for 2010 is now available!

Attention students and teachers, the WJA Student Scholarship is
now available online at www.callforentry.org.

This year we are awarding scholarships in two different
categories: the Designer Category (based on images of finished pieces
that are designed and created by the student), and a Non-Designer
Category (essay based for those studying to be a gemologist,
appraiser, watch-maker, bench jeweler, or retailer.

Our application is completely on-line through
www.callforentry.org Follow the link and fill out your application
today. Applications are due April 15th, 2010. Any questions, you can
e-mail Lisa Slovis Mandel, WJA Scholarship Chairperson at lisa (at) lisaslovis ( ) com

Learn more about WJA at their site www.womensjewelry.org.

I saw this how-did-live-without-it tool at the Metal Clay World Conference last year and am so glad to see that it’s online now at Naturescape Studio.

It’s next on my gotta-buy list.

http://www.naturescapesstudio.com

Don’t you just love a studio tour? Ginger Meek Allen has posted one on her Orchid blog, with great pictures of her space and tools. I love the picture frame she has on her wall, at the end.

Here it is:

http://gingermeekallen.ganoksin.com/blogs

To see my studio tour, go to this blog post:

http://creativetexturetools.com/news

Are you up to the challenge of making a ring a day in 2010? Check out the great work jewelers are doing over in the flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/rad2010

Tags: RAD, ring a day

Here are mine:

A really cool steel and gold pin made by metalsmith Ken Guth.

My grandmother’s fake pearls, opera length, I wore them for my wedding.

A set of Taxco silver holly leaves-and-berries-and-little-bells-that-ring earring and pendant set. I wear them once a year to a Christmas party. The screw back earrings jingle quietly in my ears and I can stand them for a few hours before I have to take them off.

Now if I can just find where I put all these things, I’ll take some pictures…

Read more entries from the carnival bloggers:
Andes Cruz

Tonya Davidson

Lora Hart

Tamra Gentry

Vickie Hallmark

Lorrene Davis

Pam East has published about her successful experiments on how to fire Art Clay Copper so that you can enamel on it. It’s here: http://www.pameast.net/library

A member on Metal Clay Gallery recommends Bead Manager Pro for the macintosh. I haven’t tried it, but thought I’d pass on the tip, since this is a question that often comes up.

It’s downloadable and costs $127.00.

Here’s the website: http://www.beading-software.com