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Mood Swings Earrings, triple dangles by Kate Drew-Wilkinson

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:06:41 -0500

$68.00
Well now, how about these colors! As you can see, they can be simply one color, or change into several different ones at the same time. Magical, pretty and light, these are downright festive! They are made with Sterling silver throughout, with some fancy effect in the rings from which the dangles hang. The whole earring hangs just over 1 ½ inches below their sterling ear wires. I put in some little copper hishi made by the Giriama Tribe from Kenya.

Earrings, Mood Swings 2 by Kate Drew-Wilkinson

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:55:39 -0500

$26.00
These earrings are delightful, I think they look a little Morrocan! They too change color all day long and are from my “Mood Swings” collection. The earrings hang 40 mm below their Sterling silver hooks. I only use Sterling silver, never plate. They are light, easy to wear and graceful.

Mood Swings Earrings by Kate Drew-Wilkinson

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:46:09 -0500

$28.00
These earrings are very light and lots of fun. The beads are from my “Mood Swings” collection and they will change color all day long. You can see that the one on the left is a different color from the one on the right. The focal beads are 12 mm wide and 15mm long and the whole earring hangs 33 mm below their sterling silver hooks. I put just a little copper into the design to dance with the earth tones in the focals.

Montana Swarovski Earrings by Kate Drew-Wilkinson

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$19.00
These little earrings are great with blue jeans. I like to think that they would perhaps become the pair most frequently worn by their owner for every day wear.I will include a pair of little earring clutches, before they go out.
The Swarovski crystal is 7 mm and they hang 19 mm from their silver posts.

Rose Swarovski Crystal Earrings by K D-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$19.00
These Rose Crystal earrings are made with love. I have actually been working with Swarovski crystals since before some of you were born! I had a production company and my line sold all over the US. Now I make them for fun and for my gallery. I felt it was time to bring some of them to you.
The crystal in this series is 7mm. I will include earring clutches with them.

Jet Swarovski Crystal short earrings by KD-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$19.00
These might be just the thing, discreet, chic and good to wear with Fall colors and to the office. The crystals are 7mm and the earrings hang 19mm from their silver leverbacks.

Jet Swarovski longer earrings by KD-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$36.00
Here's a longer version in my Swarovski crystal and sterling silver series of earrings. Black jewelry is not easy to find and this crystal is luscious. These earrings hang 37 mm from their silver hooks. These are the kinds of earrings I made for the Nature Company years ago, and they still look as if I designed them today. Jewelry making is such fun!

Charles Van Damme Ferry Colored Print by KateD-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$15.00
The Charles Van Damme Ferryboat was built in 1916, and served the route between Richmond and Marin. She was a working ferry for 40 years. She settled into the mud at the Sausalito Waterfront and became home to many very creative musicians, artists and their children. For more info, go to wwwCharlesVanDammeFerry.org

This is one of a series I drew in the late 1970s. It is a color print, one of many I did at the time. I will be putting up more from time to time!
It is 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

Basic Wire Work for Bead Jewelry Making by KateDW

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$14.00
This is a simple and comprehensive guide to classical wirework: the assembly of jewelry using beads or any objects with a hole. In 96 pages with 115 illustrations, it provides an introductory course in Kate's "closed circuit" technique of making earrings, necklaces and pins. It is an A to Z tutorial, from selecting tools and the correct wire through to finishing touches that distinguishes professional quality work from amateur hobbyist results. An excellent companion book for teaching wirework.

I illustrated it and published it myself in the very early nineties because there was no other book on the subject that I could find.. in fact I still haven't found one before mine that really teaches... It too has sold consistently throughout the years and we still ship them out to catalogs and magazines. So... this little book has taught many many people professional wirework and I am proud to be part of the growth of this kind of work over the years! Actually, the Lapidary Journal featured it side by side with Tim McCreight's great book called"The Complete Metalsmith in a half page ad for at least a year free of charge... I reckon they thought my book would bring in beginners and Tim's would take them to greater heights! It will be signed...

How To Be Successful in the Bead Jewelry Business by KateDW

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$24.00

Packed with practical advice on all aspects of designing and selling bead jewelry. You are guided in selecting the workplace, whether it is at home or in a studio workshop, participating in art shows and fairs and selling through stores, galleries and catalogues. This 140 page illustrated book also helps in designing ahead for the next season and targeting your market. Kate Drew-Wilkinson has written a regular how-to column in the Lapidary Journal and is well qualified to help new jewelry designers on their journey to success.
So... that is the info on my web page about my book. You need to know that there is nothing about internet sales in it...I wrote it in the early nineties because there simply was not a book on either this, or Basic Wirework, which is my other book. I illustrated them because at the time I was not using a camera (!) and published them myself. Fact is, this book has sold continuously through the Rio Grande catalog, The Lapidary Journal before it changed, Rings'n Things, Fire Mountain, and so you can bet it is full of good info, and some tell me it is an entertaining read! It will be signed.

Earrings Silver Drops by KateDW

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$25.00
These earrings are made with beads I bought during the time I was designing and making jewelry for the Nature Company.. remember them?
Because I bought these beads when silver prices were lower, I will pass them on to you at a lower cost than I could today. These beads are thick, strong, and will take punishment! The same kind of bead, if it was made in Tasco, Mexico would have been made with much thinner silver these days. Don't get me wrong... I love much of the silver work coming from there, it's just that the company I buy from in Attleborough, Mass, makes their beads so strong. I made the head pins too, because this style would have lost much charm if I had used the commercial flat head pins. (It's all in the detail!)The earrings hang 39 mm from their Silver lever backs and the base of the bead is 10 mm wide. This is the kind of jewelry you can wear every day, with jeans or something more chic!

Lampwork Bead Pendant Seascape by Kate D-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$125.00
It has been quite a while since I put up any new lampwork on Etsy and I am determined to do better... This is a little gem though I say it myself! Light, clean, clear and full of fun, the seaweed dancing around the shells, a sandy bottom and a blue star hanging in the sky, I think this is a bead for someone who loves the sea. It is annealed and signed and set on one of my 18 gauge silver head pins with a very tasty silver bead cap.The pendant is 1 3/4 inches high, 1 inch wide and is made with recycled Spectrum glass remnants.

Dichroic Lampwork Bead Bracelet by Kate D-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$67.00
This bracelet flies out of my gallery in Bisbee Arizona...
It is fun, light catching,and above all, strong. It is strung on 1.5 Stretch Magic. For those of you who don't know, this is FAR stronger than the 1.0 thickness. Time was you couldn't find this thicker one in catalogs and this may still be so.. I have 25 rolls at a time drop shipped to me. So. A bracelet like this can be worn year round for at least 3 years... I have not made them for longer than that so I cannot know how many years a bracelet can last.
This bracelet is 7 inches I think.. fairly small. Each bead is about 20mm long and the rest is copper hishi made by the Giriama tribe in Kenya and the old familiar granulated silver daisies usually made in Bali or India.
There you have it... a magical bracelet to make you smile...

DVD Making Beads With Stained Glass Remnants Pt 2 by KateDW

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:37 -0400

$45.00
MAKING BEADS WITH STAINED GLASS REMNANTS Pt 2

Now you have become familiar with the wonderfully creative process of melting and mixing colors from your box of stained glass scrap, it is time to move on to some more advanced techniques.
In this DVD I show you how to make a tree bead, a small bottle for holding some Essential oils and other exciting designs. This DVD is also 1 ½ hours of calm and unthreatening instruction.
I have many friends who have become professional glass bead makers with the help of my two instructional glass DVDs.
I went into using and teaching this method of making beads with stained glass scrap because there are many of you out there who have boxes of the stuff piling up under tables and in cupboards in your stained glass studios. I believe it is true to say that it often eventually gets tossed because the scraps are too small and you are moving on too fast with windows, lamps and occasional slumped pieces of jewelry to attend to those thumb-nail sized scraps. If you have made the move into bead making, wash them and punty up several colors at the same time, melt them in the flame and wind the glass around your mandrel, miracles can happen!

Swarovski Montana long Crystal earrings by KD-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:36 -0400

$36.00
Montana, the name of this colored crystal by Swarovski is a favorite. It is such a smart blue, and goes very well with Denim and also I think, black. I find this color moves very rapidly out of my gallery... These earrings hang 37mm from their hooks and the Crystal is 8mm.

Earrings in Silver and Azurite by Kate DW

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:36 -0400

$75.00
These earrings are made with Sterling Silver, Copper, Azurite and Balinese Silver Daisies. They hang 60 mm or nearly two inches below their Lever Backs. I made the Silver head pins too.

Yummy Earrings by Kate DW

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:36 -0400

$45.00
My gallery has gone under the name Uptown Tribal for over twenty five years because I think the name fits many of my collections in the gallery.
Anyway, this is a design I first put together several years ago and I still love it. The little hanging pieces are brass, the blue is Cobalt glass and the settings and wire are silver. The earrings hang just under two inches below the ear wires. They are surprisingly light.

Slender Silver Earrings by Kate DW

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:36 -0400

$18.00
These slender silver earrings are made with beads I used to use in designs for the Nature Company.. remember them? The long beads are over runs from those days... the orders were huge... I worked so hard to get them in on time! Anyway, these will narrow the face of the wearer, long skinny earrings do that... The little silver tongues at the bottom flutter and catch the light. The earrings hang 55 mm below their silver hooks.

Lampwork Museum Repro 100BC by Kate D-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:36 -0400

$25.00
I generally spend my summers with fellow glass workers in Le Treport, in Normandy, France, who have a gallery called "Verre Mer" They make, among other things, museum reproductions of beads found in the area from the Meringovian period. (400 to 800 AD)
I have been making some beads from that period for my gallery in Arizona, and also some from earlier times. This bead has had the surface broken down in the process of making it, to replicate the surface of a bead from that period. Thsi particular style of bead is also typical of the "Jerusalem Glass", circa 300 AD.
So, it is simple, but arresting, a lovely bead for a man in my opinion. I deliberately don't set these beads on anything else but a fairly thick black cotton cord, to continue the timeless feel of them. I will put up more soon. It has a lovely feel and weight, not heavy, but just right!

Swarovski Mink Crystal Earrings by KD-W

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:53:36 -0400

$36.00
These Mink beads are no longer made as far as I know...and I have had these a long time. This is the perfect year for them...just look at the fall colors in the stores...wonderful dark plum, rich berry colors, olive greens, I can see these earrings being very chic! They hang 37 mm from their hooks and the crystals are 8mm. I used to make this style for the Nature Company years ago, with semi-precious stones instead of Swarovski Crystal.

Bracelet, African Trade Beads, Copper Silver by Kate D-W