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Stelladanza's Confections: September 2010
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Thursday, September 30, 2010. Vintage Miniature Girl Figure. Vintage Miniature Girl Figure. Originally uploaded by stelladanza's confections. One of the little treasures in my collection of miniatures is this vintage girl who stands about 3.75 inches tall. She has suffered damage and been repaired, giving her even more appeal in my book. I featured her in a little stop-motion video. In a post two days ago. As I document my miniatures, they will grace these pages. Enjoy! Wednesday, September 29, 2010.
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: French Ear Wires
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Monday, January 21, 2013. FREE Tutorial: French Ear Wires. In this free tutorial, I'd like to show you how to make sophisticated French-style ear wires with spirals as pictured above. Start with two bead dangles on head pins (click here. Bend the wires over and to the right:. Continue bending the wires until they are wrapped one complete rotation around the bottom jaw of the small round-nose pliers; again, note that the wires are wrapped around to the right:. Use chain-nose pliers to grasp the short, wra...
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Coiling Wire for Jewelry
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Saturday, January 12, 2013. FREE Tutorial: Coiling Wire for Jewelry. Wire coils are an essential wire-jewelry component that every metalsmith and jewelry artist ought to master. Making coils of wire that are evenly wrapped with no gaps and no overlaps is your goal. All it takes is practice to master this important skill. Start with two pieces of scrap wire, cleaned. Bend the finer gauge wire in half to prepare it for wrapping onto the thicker wire:. Coiling wire can be very hard on your hands, especially...
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Copper Cone Earrings!
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Saturday, August 16, 2014. FREE Tutorial: Copper Cone Earrings! Jumbo-sized tapered round mandrel pliers are perfect for creating a cool pair of copper-wire cone earrings! I used 12-gauge half. Wire flush-cutters suitable for cutting up to 12-gauge wire. Wubbers jumbo tapered round mandrel pliers. Wubbers classic chain-nose pliers. Wubbers baby round-nose pliers. Ruler and/or measuring tape. 12-gauge half-round copper wire: approximately 60 inches. 16-gauge round copper wire: approximately 4-1/2 inches.
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Twisted Loop: Hand Dyed And Beautiful!!
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Crafting, Designing, Making and Sharing. Monday, April 28, 2008. Hand Dyed And Beautiful! Hello to all of you! First let me start by saying this craft blog started March 3rd, and I just know some of you early readers are wondering hmmmm where are all the other post. :o) Well I had to start over again.it is a long story and I will not bore you with the details, but let us go from here. :o). This past weekend I purchased some oh so beautiful yarn from the. Here take a look! O) Notice the beautiful drape, a...
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Enameling Balled Headpins
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013. FREE Tutorial: Enameling Balled Headpins. I personally find it easiest to use a map-gas torch with canisters of map gas from the hardware store, but if you’re already set up for torch firing enamels and glass beads with another type of torch, you can use that. Just don’t use butane! The first step is to ball up your headpins using the method described here. You will have to straighten each headpin by hand, too, because they come out of the tumbler all kinky. But, this ted...
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Balled Headpins for Jewelry
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Thursday, January 17, 2013. FREE Tutorial: Balled Headpins for Jewelry. A headpin is a length of wire with something on one end that acts as a stopper, preventing beads or pearls placed on the wire from slipping off. There are many ways to create beautiful decorative headpins starting with plain wire, and of course there are many retailers offering a wide variety of headpins in different gauges, lengths, and styles. And it’s very easy to make such things yourself. I always flush-cut one wire end. The amo...
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