Small Biz how-to: 5 top tips for packaging your products

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 {via Pocket Carnival here}  Once, when I bought some fabric online, the parcel travelled all the way from America to Australia covered in only a flimsy paper envelope with no further packaging. Fortunately it arrived unscathed, but it could have been a WHOLE bunch...

How-to : Choosing your materials for jewellery – Part (ii) – non-precious metals

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  This is the second part in my How-to on jewellery metals, and this one’s about the common non-precious metals used in jewellery. I’ve written it with the beginner-jeweller in mind, because I am absolutely passionate about excellence in...

How-to : Choosing your materials for jewellery – Part (i) – precious metals

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  This post has been prompted by something I’ve seen several times recently that makes my toes curl and my ears cringe – the wrong metal in the wrong place. Yep, it’s one of my pet hates. I’ll tell you more about why later. While you CAN...

How-to : Choosing the right materials for the job. Part 1 – fabrics

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  Welcome to the next lot of How-tos. I’ll doing a few of these posts looking at different materials, but this one focuses on fabric – which, by the way, was always called “material” when I was growing up – confusing, no?  *...

Design How-to : A final word

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  OK. So here we are at the very last post in my series – Design How-to. It’s been a blast finding lots of totally fabulous stuff to share with you and illustrate each Element and Principle (although it’s meant an awful lot of time trawling...

Design How-to : Unity

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  Hello! Welcome to the almost-last post in this series on Design How-to.  This one’s on the concept of Unity. Unity is the overall approach to the artwork.  Stand back from your work; take a look at it as a whole. How well does it “hang together” (both...