Jewels By Helen

I’m real excited to be getting started with this blog.   I plan to use this blog to showcase new items I’m making and discuss materials.  I hope to gt others involved in discussions about materials and where to buy materials.  I am learning as I go and would appreciate all the help I can get and I truly hope I can be of help to others who find themselves is the middle of making jewelry and decide to make it a focus of their lives. 

Just a little history about me.  I started making jewelry about a year ago, and absolutly fell in love with the process of jewelry making.  Right now I’m still beading but I’d really like to get involved with silver smithing and lampwork bead making.  Those of whole other crafts and I’m not quite ready for that. 

I feel my strong points are design and color.  I also paint and color is my stong point there also. 

When I begin a jewelry project I take a plate and put different beads on the plate kind of like a color palet for an artist.  Then I work on the design, sometimes I use all the beads sometimes I don’t.  It is always a fun process and even though I have a idea of how things will turn out, sometimes I’m really suprised.

I really like it when I’m running out of money and I have to get creative and use what I have. 

I’d like to hear what others do with their jewelry making and getting through cruch time.

Helen