Whoopsie Update for SABOS classes

Last night's sign up was wonderful! Thanks to one and all.
Future students, so nice to meet you!
Not signed up yet? Better hurry, seating is limited.
I'm checking, there was a mix up in the order of classes.
Everything is in it's proper order below. So sorry for the error!


Saturday - May 2 -
11-1pm
Winter Tree of Life

2-4pm
Flutterbye Bracelet and Earring Combinations

Sunday - May 3 -
11-1pm
Toodles Weave Adjustable Ring

2-4 pm
The Cross Pendant

Beginners are Welcome! Supplies included.
Tools available for your use in class, tips on which ones to buy!

Have a question? Want to sign up now and pay later? Email me - sherrys.jewels@gmail.com

SABOS Spring Bead Bazaar - The Classes

I'll be teaching four classes, two hours each, at the SABOS Spring Bead Show, May 2 and 3, in Live Oak, near San Antonio.

Here is the line up of classes -

Saturday -

11 am - 1 pm
The Winter Tree of Life
Complete a Winter Tree in our first 2 hour class, then you can make trees for all the colors of your wardrobe. Learn to bend and forge wire, twist and shape the tree, tips on various bails and finishes, including oxidation secrets.
Join the afternoon Toodles Ring class to learn how I weave the bail on my trees, for a more elaborate and impressive pendant.
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2 pm - 4 pm
Flutterbye Bracelet with Earring Possibilities
The Spirals remind me of butterflies, the wiggly links look like serpents. Learn to form and forge the wire, cage beads and use the straight up noose to make links or earrings. Learn to make your own clasps, ear wires, jump rings and dangles. More hammering, oh delightful joy!

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Sunday -

11 am - 1 pm
The Toodles Weave Ring
I wrote the tutorial using this weave to form a bezel around a stone, published in Step by Step Wire Magazine. Popular demand resulted in classes for this adjustable ring. See the amazing results on my student blog.

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2 pm - 4 pm
The Cross Pendant
Celebrate your faith! Class will complete a pendant size cross, learning the art of shaping wire, forging with a hammer and weaving beads on a frame. The design makes a beautiful wall hanging, too.

Special introductory prices for classes at the SABOS show -

$25 will include 2 hours of instruction and helpful tips, (come pick my brain), and all the required materials and supplies needed for each project. I will have tools for your use, or bring your own, since your hands are already familiar with them.

Paypal to sherrys.jewels@gmail.com or mail a check to Sue to reserve your seat.

We'll work in copper during the classes, because it's beautiful, and it feels like sterling, but allows the freedom to explore and create without budgetary inhibitions. You are welcome to bring your own wire, if you would prefer something different.

Copper feels like dead soft sterling, so your new skills will translate straight over to your silver projects.

Check out my student blog to see the quality of my teaching skills. *grin*

I can't wait to share my passion with YOU!

Here are the details thus far for the SABOS Bead Bazaar, snipped directly from their website ---->>>

Spring Bead Bazaar

The 2009 Spring Bead Bazaar will be Saturday, May 2nd & Sunday May 3rd at the Live Oak Civic Center (map).

Hours:
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

Free Admission!

Event details may change as we are still in the early planning stages. Please check back often for updates.

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Live Oak is a little town just north of San Antonio, for those of you who are not quite local. The event will be about two minutes off IH 35. See the map.

Sign up NOW to reserve your seat, space is limited - sherrys.jewels@gmail.com

Taking suggestions for SABOS classes

I'll be teaching four classes at the SABOS Spring Show, May 2 and 3, in Live Oak, near San Antonio. More details as they come available.

Which classes would y'all like to have available?
Wander thru my blog and see what has gone before. The projects must fit into a two hour slot, so there are a few that won't work, but lots of other choices...

Leave a comment here or PM me - sherrys.jewels@gmail.com

Finally, photos of the other projects for Bead Jamboree!

Holey moley walkamolee, if it could go wrong, it did. Latest bump in my road, the camera is freezing up and then telling me the "card is unreadable" and "reset the camera." What's a "reset"??? Where did I put that instruction book....

Sooooo, I pulled out the little Fuji and got these shots, nearly suitable, sort of...

These trees are not quite so wonky as they appear. Character! That's it, they have character! The one on the right needs another limb or two, come see how to add them.

The Twisty Bracelet with Czech beads. These beads are yummie! Want some? Click here and scroll down.

We're going to play with rings! How many can you make in 2 hours?

The Intro to Wire Serpent Bracelet. How many ways can you see to use these components? There are at least 8 earring combinations here.

Click here for the schedule and the other class photos.
See you in Austin!
Hey, there's still time to sign up online and reserve Your seat.
sherrys.jewels@gmail.com

Beaders! Join me!

Beaders! Are you looking for new direction to set your work apart from run of the mill?
Interest in wire working is growing exponentially, since wire lends itself so nicely to individuality.
My classes are all about technique - adapt the new skill and make it your own.

The possibilities are endless!

Join me -
Austin - Jan 23-25
Bracken - Jan 30
(click the date for details)

I love to spread the passion!

Classes at Austin Bead Jamboree - Jan 23-25

I've been invited to teach at the Bead Jamboree Shows in Texas. My first gig will be in Austin.

Austin Bead Jamboree Austin, Texas
Friday, Saturday and Sunday January 23rd, 24th, 25th --
Fri and Sat - 10am-5pm, Sunday 11am-4pm
Crockett Center 10601 North Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78753

Public Welcome, Free Admission, Free Parking

Retail & Wholesale

There will be a drawing each day for a $100.00 dollar shopping spree at 1:00pm

You do not have to be present to win.

I've been putzing with the class roster for too long, trying to gather the "best" classes to offer. I'm making myself crazy, so here y'all go. Pick the classes that suit you best.
Feed back would be welcome!
(Corpus and San Antonio students - there's time to make requests before I set YOUR schedules for May and June.)

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Sign up immediately, space will be limited. Email me NOW! sherrys.jewels@gmail.com
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Two hour classes are $30 and One hour classes are $15.
All supplies are included and I will have tools for your use, but you are welcome to bring along your own.

If you need tools but don't know the difference between jewelry and auto mechanic tools, be sure to attend the Intro to jewelry class, to learn about my favorites.

All my classes are suitable for beginners and fun for the Professional. Come learn my secrets.

**** Friday, 10am-5pm
* 10:30-12:30 - Intro to Wire - The Serpentine Bracelet
* 1-2 - Intro to jewelry - tools, stringing, finishing
* 2:30-4:30 - Rings for your Fingers and Toes - Explore a variety of styles

**** Saturday 10am-5pm
* 10:30-12:30 - Border Wrap a Square Stone into a Pendant -*The* basic technique for turning flat objects into jewelry
* 1-2 - Intro to jewelry - tools, stringing, finishing
* 2:30-4:30 - Toodles Weave Ring - Learn my technique, first published in Step by Step Wire

**** Sunday 11am-4pm
* 10:30 - 12:30 - Twisty Bracelet - Weave your favorite color Czech beads into a fun little bracelet.
* 1-3 - Tree of Life

Pictures will soon be added to this post, so bookmark it and check back often. Here are a few-

You missed it! Next class in Bracken - Spirals and Forks Rings - Jan 2 - Fri

Spirals and Forks Rings

Make 2 fully adjustable rings! One technique, two different results - one with piles of spirals and the other reminiscent of ancient fork rings, with many more styles possible. Learn to bind wire, make spirals, and forge with a hammer.

*Techniques utilized – forge and hammer wire, proper use of tools, oxidize metal.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

Jan 2 - Fri -- 12-3 or 6-9

Sign up online or go visit the ladies at And The Bead Goes On

Happy Merry Blessed Christmas to each and every one!

Perhaps some wonder why - I wish you enough - ?
Those who have been around email chains since forever probably recognize it. I spent some time tonight, wandering thru google, and found some interesting versions. I also found Bob Perkins, who says he's the original author, and says it was featured in Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul. Spend some time wandering around his site.
Here is the pertinent part, and my wish for each of you - May you have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain you -

"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much
bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."

My dear friends, I wish YOU enough...

Class Friday Dec 26 in Bracken

Join me on Friday to learn the Toodles Weave.

This is the weave which dear Denise Peck, editor of Step by Step Wire Jewelry, asked me to write for the magazine. This weave makes beautiful rings, as you can see above, and bezels for pendants, and bails like my Tree of Life, or use it in smaller bits for interesting detail and texture in the midst of other projects.

Learn the Weave, then go all out and make a bracelet ala Princess Leia Goes to the Beach -

Treat yourself! Come have a play with wire day!
Sign up now, online, at And The Bead Goes On Go to the calendar for December and scroll down.

Choose the daytime class - 12-3 - or the evening class - 6-9
Instruction for the Toodles Weave Adjustable Ring - $45 plus the wire.

A Tumbling experiment

Ooooo la la, so purty the wire looks! WWJ was having a discussion about tumbling and how it effects glass. So, I put all these babies into my Lortone, with one pound of stainless steel shot, a few flat glass marbles for bulk, no water or other extranious matterials.
They tumbled for about 4 hours last night.
The glass beads are all Czech glass and they came thru beautifully. No sign that they were busy all night.
The wire, OMGolly, it's beeeuuutifuuuullll! So smooth and shiny and sparkly.
Why don't I use my tumbler more often???
Oh ya, 'cause it's such a pitb to dig it out from it's little storage spot. Sometimes I reaaaalllly miss my workshop!

Ghost Kitty joins the blog

Awww, Ghost Kitty wanted to join the fun and be on the blog. (He's trying to make up for peeing on my bed. Again) Here he is in his favorite position - right in the middle of my work. Well, actually, he's polite enough this time to lay slightly off to the side.... He adores chewing on my copper wire.

His beloved puff balls! It's absolutely amazing to witness the life he can infuse into those balls, throwing them high in the air and batting them like baseballs. Rolling and tumbling, hopping and jumping.
Second best fun is wrestling those evil wicked rugs! Holey moley those claws are vicious!

How can I stay mad at such a cute lil' thang? Hmmmmmm.....
Need to go to the laundry and wash those bed clothes...
Again!
OK, I understand you don't want to go outside to the litter box when it's freezing cold and windy and rainy, so make Himself leave the litter box inside by peeing on His bedclothes!

Spirals and Forks Rings - - Class in Bracken - Jan 2 - Fri

Spirals and Forks Rings

Make 2 fully adjustable rings! One technique, two different results - one with piles of spirals and the other reminiscent of ancient fork rings, with many more styles possible. Learn to bind wire, make spirals, and forge with a hammer.

*Techniques utilized – forge and hammer wire, proper use of tools, oxidize metal.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

Jan 2 - Fri -- 12-3 or 6-9

Sign up online or go visit the ladies at And The Bead Goes On

Classic Cubed Cuff Bracelet - Class

Three hour class

Learn to make the basic wire cuff bracelet. In class we will be using cubed beads and heavy wire. After learning the technique, use round or bicone or many other shapes of beads, large or small, multiple rows of beads or no beads at all.
Join the class for tips, hints and samples of other possibilities.

*Techniques utilized – proper use of tools, oxidize metal.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

Sign up online or go visit the ladies at And The Bead Goes On

Canceled - Jellyroll Cuff Bracelet - Class in Bracken - Jan 23 - Fri

This class will be canceled, due to my being invited to teach at the Bead Jamboree bead show in Austin Fri, Sat and Sun. Details about That Adventure here.

Jellyroll Cuff Bracelet

A few beads and a bit of wire, viola! Your very own wearable art! Change the beads, change the look entirely! So very many bracelet possibilities. Positively stunning with Swarovski crystals!

*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

Jan - -- canceled

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Hammered Heart Pendant - Class

Three hour class

Hammered Heart Pendant

Hearts and sparkles, won't you be mine? Hammer some copper, wrap some sterling for detail, make a few jumprings, dangle a whole assortment of sparklies, then turn a bit of wire and some cord into a necklace to show off your lovely new creation. This cute heart makes a great Mother gift - use birthstone colors for all the family. Done in red and white and clear, a perfect Valentine statement.

*Techniques utilized – forge and hammer wire, proper use of tools, oxidize metal, cage tiny beads.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

Sign up online or go visit the ladies at And The Bead Goes On

Butterfly Kisses Bracelet - Class in Bracken - Feb 13 - Fri

Butterfly Kisses Bracelet

Butterfly wings gently kissing your wrist. Choose your favorite color beads, add some copper wire and learn to bind and spiral wire, forge with a hammer and fashion a clasp.

*Techniques utilized – forge and hammer wire, proper use of tools, oxidize metal.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

Feb 13 - Fri -- 12-3 or 6-9

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Border Wrap a Square Stone Pendant - Class in Bracken - Feb 18 - Wed

Border Wrap a Square Stone Pendant

The border wrap is a classic, ancient and most versatile setting for jewelry making, with unlimited possibilities from simple to extraordinarily ornate. Learn the Border Wrap concept with a Square so you can easily adapt the wrap to your favorite shaped stones.

*Techniques utilized – Learn to measure your stone, choose the appropriate placement for your bundle wires, bind several wires together to form a bezel to frame your stone, then set your muse free to embellish the details.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

Feb 18 - Wed - - 12-3 or 6-9

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Clover Links with Green Dangles Bracelet - Class in Bracken - March 6 - Friday

Clover Links with Green Dangles Bracelet

Show off your Irish spirit wi' the wearin' o' the green and four leaf clovers.
The lovely little links make a wonderful base for a charm bracelet. Add lots of pretty dangles in your favorite colors.

*Techniques utilized – forge and hammer wire, proper use of tools, oxidize metal.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

March 6 - Fri - - 12-3 Only


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Toodles Ring - Class

Toodles Ring

Three hours - 12-3 OR 6-9pm

Whimsical Hearts for Love or Spirals for the Cycles of Life.
Learn to weave wire in the Toodles Weave style with this cute Adjustable Ring. Choose the finish you like best.

*Techniques utilized – forge, weave, spiral and hammer wire, proper use of tools, oxidize metal.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

Sign up here or go visit the ladies at And The Bead Goes On

Cross Pendant - Class in Bracken - March 13 - Fri

Cross Pendant

The symbol of redemption through thousands of years. Learn to make a lovely free form cross embellished with a variety of sparkly beads woven with merry abandonment.

*Techniques utilized – forge and hammer wire, proper use of tools, oxidize metal.
*Skill Level: Beginner -- Never handled wire before? Come join the addiction!

March 13 - Fri - 12-3 OR 6-9pm

Here is a larger version, 9" tall, which looks fabulous on a wall. Use your newly learned skills to make one for each of your friends.