Welcome back to our weekly installment of Friday Highlights from the Subscriber Gallery! Where the Art Jewelry editors showcase three jewelry pieces uploaded to the online Subscriber Gallery by Art Jewelry subscribers. To see previous subscriber picks, check out Hazel's first blog about it, Jill's first picks, and Addie's choices ...

 Good news this week for anyone itching to stock up on new jewelry-making projects! You have 5 days left to get 30% off when you buy any of the individual downloadable projects from our Yahoo! store. That means you can get PDFs of individual articles from past issues of Art Jewelry for $2.75! So, let's say you weren't a subscriber in ...

Last Friday was Web-update day here in the Art Jewelry offices. We put a bunch of new content on the site, including a new free project for subscribers, new videos, a template for making "3 Surprising Ways to Integrate Polymer clay and Metal clay" from our September 2009 issue, a packing checklist to reference as you're getting ready ...

In the wake of the Bead&Button show, the Art Jewelry offices have been slightly manic. (Yes, we still feel aftershocks more than a month later!) The last day of the show dropped us right in the middle of crunch time to get the September 2009 issue to the press. All creative maneuvering aside, we're really happy with how it turned out! ...

Happy Earth Day, Everyone! As I write this, the birds are singing, the sun is laying a warm blanket of color over the budding trees, the nubbins of grass (and yes, the parking lot), and the sky is the perfect blue — what a fitting reminder of why we love our planet! For some great ideas on how to practice your planet-love today and throughout ...

 So, here's my confession: I've never taken a class at the Bead&Button Show. Appalling, I know. Especially since there are great teachers from all over the world teaching more than 500 classes, all within a 15-minute drive of my home. Considering that some of you fly across the globe to attend the show, my failure to seize the ...

Our May 2009 issue was exciting to put together, because it was our first-ever green issue! I was lucky enough to be assigned to interview polymer clay artist Melanie West about her solar-powered home and studio in Freedom, Maine. It was so interesting to hear Melanie explain how and why she and her partner, Tom Levesque, have continually made ...