Paisley Love Earrings - Available

an original design by M

In2wire craft workshop: Student's Creation

I just received this and so happy to see the result :)

This is from Alison and you can view her blog at http://mettaville.blogspot.com/
Metta means loving kindness. You can view GREAT photos...and i really mean GOOD because her photos are not just photos but stories captured thru camera lens.

I am glad to know YOU alison and thank you for sharing your blog :)

In2wire craft workshop: Student's Creation

Great work on your first try at wire wrapping!

This is Haslina's second class with me. The first class she learned how to make a spiral bracelet, which i have forgotten to take pictures.....really i must must make the effort to remember that . After few workshops i have done and forgotten to take photos, darling hubby suggested that i ask my apprentice to tag along just so she can take some snapshots coz i will for sure not remember! :)

In2wire CRAFT WORKSHOP

Girls! You have all been fabulously patient with me and i THANK YOU very much :)


It was good exercise for me  going around and helping with each one of you and it was great to see your  enthusiasm and spirit to do the projects. For some its your first experience doing the wirework craft itself and i would say, great job! :)

Perhaps some of you may find it a little bit difficult at first but don't sweat it. In no time with practice you will master little details like making the spirals, hook and jump rings. As i said to Hui Ping later after class, even for me to master making the jump rings, i practice on one spool of wire! and that is a whole lot of jump rings, about 250pcs of em  :)

as you "let yourself go" into the craft, you will notice how easy things will get soon after and in no time you will be creating your own creation. I know we all want to do it right, but even for me its always still a learning process and as time pass by, you will just get better and better. 

This craft will define the meaning of patience and your patience will be paid off with a beautiful piece of jewelry handcrafted by you. 

Take care and smile always :)

M

p/s

During the workshop, each student received one Box containing printed color tutorials, 2 spool of wires, one beadbox containing some choices of beads for you to work and as a bonus if you noticed, you have more crystal donuts to work on for few more extra creations for intermediate class and for the elementary class i have added on two extra glass beads with different color choices :)

the first 10k mark :)

hi everyone,

my website's meter accumulate faster that my car meter and oredi overtake it! my car's mileage just touch 7045k since i got it in december 2007.....and my site started to get active sometime in april 2009....wow....means i "drive" lagi banyak kat sini then on the road! :)))

thanks everyone for the support just by taking your precious time to visit my site...

take care.... and see some of you this saturday at beading.com.my :)

M

Jewelry Making Benefits For Kids

few days back, my friend suggested that i do some research about how jewelry making hobby can benefit growing children. As we all know, art and craft is always one of the subjects in every school education module. why is that so?  i have not gone into depth with regards to this but what i have found so far has definitely made me glad that i have been doing craftwork with my kids as young as they were 3 years old!

My kids enjoy making jewelry and ever since i started teaching them the more creative part of wire working jewelry, they have become more and more creative beyond my expectation. just shows that there is no age boundary to creativity and skill. Children are like sponges. they will absorb everything we teach them and lets just instill good positive ones and hope it will stay on with them and pass on to future generations to come.

so with whatever little information i have manage to "google" so far, let me share some with you.

:)

M

BENEFITS OF ARTS AND CRAFTS - JEWELRY MAKING FOR KIDS


Young children are very active. They are learning so many different things such as dressing themselves, eating properly and being social. Everything that a child does is a critical part of his or her development and a very important part of their life. You hear a lot about crafts for young kids and how important it is to introduce them to making crafts but have you ever wondered why it is so important?
There are many benefits associated with introducing young children to crafts.

• Crafts help to inspire the imagination and creativity
• It keeps the child active and entertained in a positive way
• It encourages hobbies
• They make great family gifts
• Crafts provide a sense of accomplishment for the child
• It gives the parent a little extra free time

Crafts can be almost anything that you can imagine. For instance, kids can draw their own pictures and color them. They can cut pictures out of magazines and glue them on construction paper or put together a scrapbook. Making jewelry or macrame are crafts that children love. Even knitting and crocheting are excellent crafts for kids that help to build character.


Most of the time you can find everyday household items that can be used in craft making. Add some colorful construction paper, glue, crayons, paint or markers designed for children and who knows what you can come up with. You can also buy craft kits that can make specific designs by following simple easy directions.


Kids learn fast and the crafts they do today could turn into future hobbies they can always enjoy. Crafts help to build the character and self-esteem that children need to make it through this life. Help your child develop his or her creativity by introducing them to crafts at an early age. 

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lisa_A_Mason

The Art of Living With the Help of Jewellery Making


Everybody loves buying and wearing jewellery. But there are some people who love making them too. Apart from the jewellery maker, the goldsmith etc., there are people who love making jewellery as a hobby. Making jewellery can be quite a satisfying and fulfilling hobby. It also brings about positive changes in us. And therefore many parents and schools encourage this hobby among children. In this article we are going to look at some of the benefits that jewellery making brings about in our life. 

Jewellery making is a creative activity - and therefore it enhances creative thinking. This creative thinking also trickles to other aspects of life as well. If you are involved in jewellery making, your hobby helps you think creatively in various situations in life. You start to resolve problems in a creative way. Everything you do, has a touch of elegance in it - and that would also impresses not just yourself, but also others who come in touch with you.

Jewellery making also improvises your organisational skills. You tend to grow an uncanny sense of how things are to be done and where and how the resources would get utilised. It builds your concentration power and you can focus on things pretty well. And having a strong ability to focus and concentrate is very helpful and critical in every sphere of life.

Helping your children take part in this activity would not only help them build these soft skills, but also apart from these, jewellery making would instil self confidence in them. If you too are actively involved in your child's project, it will help you spend quality time with them. They would connect with you better and that would strengthen the bond of love further. Having made the jewellery, your child can wear them and this in itself is a great pleasure - a great feeling of exhilaration.


written by paul shane. Paul Shane cherishes a hobby of studying and collecting Jewellery, to dig out the making and story behind them, especially the rare or exquisite ones, also the Pearlsbeing used for manufacturing the jewellery. He also loves studying consumer behaviour related to jewellery selecting and buying. At present he is associated with a leading group called E-Beads Limited.

"buttons, spirals and swirls..." by SNA

,words can't describe how i felt when my apprentice showed me her latest work.

soon there will be more demand for her designs than mine! ;)