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Alone Star Jewelry Blog
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Slices of Texas inspire our unique handmade jewelry, designed with silver clay, turquoise and other semi-precious gemstones. Born and bred Texans, our goal is to create handcrafted jewelry that reflects both the flavor of our growing up in Texas and personal interests and ideas. Many of the jewelry pieces can’t help being unique and truly Texan, but in our growing collection you will find designs that transcend local flavor.
Recent Posts
Bronzed
Good evening. I have "finished" these earrings, bronze with chrysoprase and moonstones. They are the bronze domes I showed in a recent post, just fired with the three holes in each. I think these earrings are prettier with all three stones green, but...
Make Your Plans! (The holidays are here!)
I would like to talk about the Mary Queen Christmas Bazaar this evening, because it's coming up--before we know it--the first weekend in December! This art, craft, and food festival is held annually in Friendswood, and was first suggested to us in 20...
Happy Hallowe\'en! & other (technical) topics
Working on a few projects at once, as usual. Keeps it interesting...I have been working with bronze clay over the last few weeks. My first experiences were with domes that fired to about 1.5" but I had some problems with uneven shrinkage so had to cu...
All Hallow\'s Eve
ArtoberFest 2009, Galveston, Texas Tomorrow is Hallowe'en! It's always been my second favorite holiday. Mom used to make donuts in our kitchen, and we trick-or-treated faithfully until well into junior high. So now our kids are carrying on the tra...
Ready to show!
The last new pieces have been finished and we are now in our packing mode, getting ready for the trek to ARToberFEST!This pendant is called "Warmth" and features a Rhodolite cab (garnet family) and 24k gold, which was applied using the Keum-boo techn...
ARToberFEST is this weekend!
We are burning the midnight oil getting ready for ARToberFEST on the 17th and 18th! It's great to be down in Galveston--an important historical town in Texas, and there's nothing like being at the Gulf! I anticipate meeting the artists who will be on...
