Michele | June 4, 2010
“That’s not my style.” How many times have you heard that from others or said it yourself? But personal “style”, just like our taste buds, change constantly. There was a rule at our dinner table when I was growing up… “You don’t have to eat but you must taste.” It didn’t matter if we’d had [...]
Michele | October 18, 2009
This month I want to share with you two wonderful Handmade Artisans who define the term. First up is Tiffany Brotherton. A graduate in Fine Arts from Missouri State University, she got hooked after taking a class by Sarah Perkins, a wonderful designer in her own right. Tiffany is a tool junkie and tends to [...]
mikicatdesigns | September 2, 2009
This article is coming out of a wonderful discussion I had with a very talented goldsmith who is trying to educate people on exactly what custom work is. He writes this whole article on his site where he talks about fabricating a ring for you, or making a wax carving and then manufacturing it for [...]
mikicatdesigns | August 28, 2009
They’ve just given us a way to have our Artfire Studios on our Facebook Fan pages and you don’t have to leave Facebook to find everything we make and sell. I think it’s awesome and hope you’ll check out Mikicat Designs Facebook Fan page and our new Artfire Kiosk. It is so cool. In the [...]
mikicatdesigns | August 19, 2009
I’m blocked for blogging. While I love to write and think I do it well, I don’t always know what to write about. After a wonderful chat with the Florida Etsy Street Team tonight, I was complaining about not having any sales. I’ve been with Etsy for many months now and only made one online [...]
mikicatdesigns | August 5, 2009
Almost a year ago I created a pretty loopy chainmaille earring with Swarovski Crystals. I decided to call it Atlantis Spring. Since then, I’ve had requests to make the same earring in different colors. So, I decided to create them after the seasons. Yesterday, I spent 4 hours making jump rings in the size I [...]
mikicatdesigns | July 17, 2009
This month I am also featuring Haffina Creations! A wonderful blogger, artisan, designer and Guild Master. This wonderful woman not only writes articles for Handmadenews.org but also formed the Artfire Chainmaille Artisans Guild, creates some beautiful jewelry and sells it in her studio. She’s even started to make polymer clay beads and opened a new [...]
mikicatdesigns | July 6, 2009
I’ve been spending so much time online, trying to get the web store loaded up with my designs, promoting my fingers off to get more Facebook fans so I can reach 100 and lock in our name, Tweeting, photographing, describing, typing, etc… that I haven’t had a lot of time to work on actually doing [...]
Michele | July 1, 2009
Blogging isn’t easy when you’re not used to it. I think I’m too stiff and need to loosen up a bit. So I’m going to do something that seems against all the marketing rules, but to me, means community and sharing. I’m going to tell you about a wonderful designer I found. Theresa aka Studio618 [...]
mikicatdesigns | May 12, 2009
Some designs just scream out for a name. something other than Byzantine links and rings. Simple. Appropriate. But it doesn’t evoke what the piece really looks like. I’ve been calling once such piece I made Byzantine Scallops. Appropriate, but not evocative. At a recent show, a little girl came up to me and told me [...]
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