If anyone has been following me for a while on Instagram @andiclarkejewelry or via my “Andi Clarke Jewelry” Facebook page, you may have seen me share that I had a skiing accident just before New Year which resulted in a broken leg. Surgery followed with doctor’s orders of being non weight bearing for 8 weeks and on crutches. Well, my New Year’s plans for my jewelry business took a sudden 180 degree turn and I had to rethink a lot of them. While I was able to do limited jewelr

We live in Washington State where trees are grown for lumber, paper and furniture and we have all sorts of wonderful trees. Washington is in fact referred to as the Evergreen State. We also have some fairly windy storms and lots of rain causing occasional flooding in the winter. This coupled with the fact that we have lots of shoreline in the Puget Sound area, means that tree branches land up in the water, spend some time getting weathered and then wash up on some remote beac

I want to share a tip with you that you will save money if you are using lots of jump rings in your work. People who do chain maille work or jewelry will know what I mean. I use a lot of jump rings in my work as part of the setting around the pebble, broken china or piece of sea glass. I also use them when I make the leather necklace for some of my pendants, both as the top bail of the actual pendant and then to attach the extender chain and also to attach the sterling lobste

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