All Things Metal Clay
An Expert Guide to Making & Selling Jewelry

Jewelry folks all over the world are busy creating awesome tutorials, here’s a list of some of them:

Alison Lee has a video on how to make a Shrinky-dink Christmas charm necklace:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPoD6LUdMuY

Shrink plastic is suddenly every where I look! Sabine Alienor has a tutorial on making sturdy stencils out of shrink plastic, what a great idea!

http://www.sabinealienor.com/dotclear/index.php?post/2012/12/18/Fabriquer-des-gabarits-How-to-make-templates

From Shari Haab, a nice looking necklace made of recycled materials:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=378142.0

Sue McNenly wrote up a kiln smackdown!

http://suemcnenly.blogspot.ca/2012/12/kiln-smackdown-paragon-e-12a-vs-jewelry.html

A video from Maggie Bergman on cleaning up fingerprints in Photoshop, for creating a photopolymer plate to make fingerprint jewelry:

http://pinterest.com/pin/245305510925083779

And here are some fun things to make that aren’t metal clay or jewlery, but are still cool:

http://abeautifulmess.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/hot-chocolate-spoons-.html

http://lishdorset.com/2012/02/19/project-duck-tape-coffee-cup-sleeve

And if you’re in the Chicago area, there’s a new DIY photo studio:

http://www.snipsnapgo.com

Finally, hot trends in business for 2013:

http://admin.openforum.com/articles/7-hot-trends-for-small-business-in-2013

How about you? What tutorials are you reading these days? Have you posted one yourself? Please share the link in the comments, thanks!