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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Update and New Broken China Jewelry In My Etsy Shop

Hi friends! Just a quick update to show off a few new pieces of broken china jewelry that I just finished yesterday and listed in my Etsy shop this morning!

I know Valentine's Day is right around the corner so I wanted to be sure to get a few brand new pieces in my shop before the big day!

I am knee-deep into writing my 4th jewelry-making book (wow that went fast!) and I am SO excited to share it with you...but not just yet...I really like to have the cover finished and finalized before I share the title, if at all possible. But to give you super-sleuths a hint, I will only say that this is the book that most of you have been waiting for and for a long time! Horray!

I hope to have this 4th book available within the next few months. I will keep you posted here in the blog and also over on my YouTube channel - which I, unfortunately, had to take a bit of a break from due to the holidays and also book 4. I can't do it all but I try! I will have some new YouTube videos out soon, I promise.

Not only am I cruising through "book 4", but I am also laying down the foundations for yet another jewelry book (let's call it book 5!) which like I said is jewelry-related but a bit different from my others. I'll just say...wait and see, and if you enjoy the general theme of my jewelry-making books, then I think you'll really like this one too.

One last thing I wanted to say was that I'm still super-bummed that you cannot leave comments here on the blog anymore. I will try to look into it again when I get a chance, but ever since about December '22 we tried to do something called a theme change to switch up the look of this blog, and when that happened - poof - the ability to comment just disappeared. So, I will continue to repost each of my blog posts on my Facebook page, and please leave comments there! I usually don't get to read them immediately, but I promise I do eventually get to read them all! Okay, that's enough of my blabbing. Here's what's new! Have a great weekend!
- Laura

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Saturday, August 22, 2020

How's Your Summer? Exciting News & New Broken China Jewelry

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Hi friends! I hope you are having a nice summer and had a chance to get out and enjoy some sunshine...

A Peek At A Custom Broken China Jewelry Order

I had a lot on my to-do list today...I have soldering to do for an entire new batch of jewelry, and I'm getting ready to shoot a new thrift shop haul video this morning for my YouTube channel...and then of course preparing for that got me in the mood to run to the thrift store hehe...

But before I do that, I realized I had to delete some old photos and videos from my phone to make some room for my new video...you know, lots of photos from Christmas and New Years that I had to quickly organize just to get out of the way, and while I was doing that I came across a few photos of a custom order I did right before the holiday, and I knew I had to share the photos with you before I filed them away!

So you can see what kind of morning it's been - lots of small tasks to take care of here and there that keep leading me from one thing to the next! But who doesn't love looking at before and after photos, right?! So here they are, before I file them away!

This was a custom order for a person who found this single shard of china buried in the ground at the old farmhouse where they live (I think I got that right - I don't remember the exact details!) Anyway, she had this one small piece that was about four and a half inches long or so by about two inches deep and she sent me the top "before" image which you'll see below.

As soon as I saw the photo of the shard I knew right away that it would make a beautiful piece of jewelry! It was a very pretty soft pink color and had a beautiful textured dot pattern and as soon as I saw it I knew just what shape to transform it into! It was very thin porcelain so it was easy to work with, though the reverse side was badly stained with rusty iron stains from being in the earth for a very long time. I managed to scrub out the stains and the two pendants that later emerged from this single shard turned out to be one of the nicest custom orders I've done.

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