~~~ Happy Holidays To All ~~~

When the Show Melts, You Find Butterflies

My very dear friend Corra gave me an advanced copy of her wonderful new holiday tutorial - SnowFlakes Wired Chinese Knot Earrings. I had ( along with many others), pestered her so much about it, she stayed up all night one night to do it. It is based on her Cubic Knot Earrings tutorial, which was great by itself, and these are even more fun.
I went to town when I got it, and by accident, created my own variation..... After the first butterfly was born, I was thoroughly addicted. I've tried not to get carried away, but they keep evolving, and I love playing with different color combination's. The purple one is my favorite (so far), and the blue one is on it's way to Germany as a gift to a customer. If you're as fascinated by this design as I am, please visit Corra's shop at Etsy, or her blog DecorsHandmades. She has 9 delicious Wired Knots Tutorials, and 5 mini-tutorials available. Fall in love with all of them and she has 3 different tutorial packages to satisfy your need for knots.

Thanks for stopping by - stop back again soon...................
~Bobbi
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." ~Scott Adams

YIPPEE - Its Finally Finished - Tutorial - Prong Pendant - Slider Style

This one was a real struggle - My camera died part way through - Sooooo I had to bite the bullet, get a new camera (OUCH ) and then re-do the images (and the tutorial pendant) several times to complete the tutorial.
I'm very happy with the way it turned out.

This tutorial teaches the techniques to wire wrap a slider style pendant, with a prong setting. It can be altered to set either a cab, or faceted stone. Modifying the gauge of wire and number of prongs, it can be used to set almost any size and shape of stone.
You can find this and my other tutorials in both mt shops at ArtFire and Etsy.
Thanks for taking a peek....
~Bobbi
"It is better to fail at originality, than to succeed at imitation." Herman Melville