Can you saw?

Join us on Thursday night for Technique Thursday and you can learn to do a pierced pendant and really work that jewelers saw. You'll leave with a sweet little copper charm and a better knowledge of how to make that saw do what you want.

You may even learn how NOT to break blades!

See you Thursday, 6:30-8:30.

Customer Work - Skull and Wire Earrings

We have a contest going on over on our Facebook page. We've invited customers to share their favorite Ornamentea item on their facebook wall and I love seeing what folks like and why. The fans are excited to have a chance to win $10 gift certificates, I like the fact that I can peek into our customers studios. 

I like seeing what they make with the items they like.

These earrings are by Cindy Mays of Sweet Southern Charmer. She shared the skull beads (which I also like a lot!) but I really liked her super-wrappy wire work on these earrings. That kind of wire wrappy-wrap-wrap stuff is harder to do that you might imagine and almost impossible to teach to people. You just have to understand the way the wire is going to look and relax about it lining up just exactly. Cindy's work is sold at the Old Wilmington City Market among other places...check it out.

The Facebook contest ends on the 8th.

Atami Necklace featuring kimono cording...

 

see the full directions and how-to photos here on our tutorials page

Garden Jewelry

Vintage chandelier crystals hanging from our bamboo bean trellis.
I used Wildfire to hang them, just looped it over the bamboo.

They are very pretty in the sun and surprisingly sparkly in the dim light of evening.

Customer work - Star Statement Necklace

See how Mor created a dramatic and personal gift for a friend...right at our work table!

New tutorial-Decopatch pennants

We have a lovely video that will show you how to make waterproof pennants for your garden.
I love the idea of pretty paper decorations that can withstand the heat, humidity and thunderstorms of a North Carolina summer.
These pretty pennants are not hard to make.
We've made it even easier with a discount on Decopatch paper through June 5th.
Hurry!

Join the Patriotic Craft linky party at Craft Test Dummies

 Are you already thinking about Patriotic crafts for July 4th? It's not too early...the crafty folks over at Craft Test Dummies (one of our favorite sites here at the office!) have started a link party to celebrate Patriotic Crafts.

You can join in...just go read the instructions on their site right here.

I can't join the party (we are a 'selling site' and so prohibited) but I'll share some red-white-and-blue jewelry ideas that go a bit beyond the safety pin flags you made in 3rd grade all month.

What would I do with the items pictured here?

I'd string those beads up in a chunky necklace on red or blue leather cording and cut out some of my favorite states from the map and make charms using bezels and ecopoxycraftresin. 

Win a $10 Ornamentea gift certificate

Today through June 8th we are giving away one $10 gift certificate every day at our Facebook page.

All you have to do is visit Ornamentea.com and share your favorite item on your Facebook wall. Then go to the Ornamentea.com Facebook page and tell us what you shared and why. We'll choose a winner each day, so the winner for June 1st (today) will be announced on the Facebook page tomorrow. You will have to 'like' Ornamentea.com to enter the contest, but maybe you like us already?

The full contest rules are here.
You do need to have a Facebook account to play!