What do you do when you have an assortment of special beads that you finally have decided to use? Stringing up a necklace of disparate beads to achieve an attractive result is no easy feat. Yet, Victoria Hughes makes it …
Rachel’s Eye on Design: Imitative Sampler Necklace Read more »
Here’s another treat for your viewing pleasure to tide you over until I return from the ACC Baltimore Craft Show. When I began to think seriously about building a substantial collection of polymer art, I wanted my first purchase to …
Selection from the Collection: Billy by the Riverbank Read more »
Several emails have come to this blog, disputations on the general theme of “who-did-what-first.” So let me lay out for the readers who gather here how I’d like to handle this issue.
While I’m in the studio filling orders today, here’s something to feast your eyes upon. I purchased this necklace in 1997 at MIPCES from Steven Ford and David Forlano when they still worked under the name City Zen Cane. Steven …
Selection from the Collection: City Zen Cane Shell Necklace Read more »
When I started to plan the sequence of innovation-based articles for this site, the task seemed daunting since there were so many events to choose from. That led me to reread Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book, “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of …