learn a few techniques to embellish metal geometric shapes with beads to make earrings and pendants

Announcing my next bead jewellery making workshop I am looking forward to guiding my next group of students in the making of a glass bead...

You know those small packs of playing cards you get in Christmas crackers, the ones that are too small to play with.... These..... Let me...

A brief review of bracelet and necklace restringing clasps used by Angela Smith Jewellery. I am often asked what clasps I use when...

Are you a knitter? Have you ever thought about knitting jewellery with wire but not had any idea about where to start? What type of...

Last weekend I attended a craft and Makers Market in Newport, Shropshire. The theme for the day was Halloween, which is not something I...

It isn't a secret! Most people realise that plastic melts. Did you also know that if two pieces of plastic melt together they will fuse...

I would hazard a guess and say that almost everyone has enjoyed completing a jigsaw at some time. I still remember with fondness some of...

A couple of weeks ago I made the decision to act on yet another idea that had been forming in my head for a month or so. I have two...

This weekend I made an attempt to clear some of my work room, this involved reorganising my boxes of beads to make room for other beads...

It has been a while since I visited my hoard of paper clips - today I couldn't resist! I seem to accumulated them over the years, in...

Gnosall, Staffordshire. Yesterday afternoon I held my first Jewellery Making Workshop of 2023! Setting up, I realised just how many beads...

Already in April! what happened to March? Just a quick post to remind you that I have a jewellery making workshop coming up this month on...