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 Jewelry Designer Manager Pro
Jewelry designers, myself included, are notorious for resisting rational organization and number crunching. We are much more interested in exploring and developing our latest visual inspirations rather than thinking about the hard numerical realities of our business.
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 Anti-Tarnish Sterling Silver Wire
Sterling silver wire that doesn’t tarnish! Pretty amazing, we thought. So I put some in a zipper bag with my breakfast eggshells to see what would happen. (Normally, I use eggshells to add an antique patina, i.e., tarnish, to silver when I don’t feel like messing with chemicals.
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 Cool Tool
This is a great tool! The Bead Stopper is a sturdy spring with loops bent up on each end. When you pinch the loops toward each other with two fingers (very little force is needed), the spring spreads so you can catch the end of the cord or wire – multiple or single strands – between the spring coils. Release pressure on the loops and the cords are held firmly.
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 Sludge by Any Other Name
All good inventions are created out of need and Arrow Springs new Dip-n-Go Sludge is just another example of filling a need for the flameworking industry. When you have the creative bug and want to make a new glass bead, there is nothing more frustrating that have to put bead release on your mandrel and then wait, wait wait while the bead release dries.
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 Art Affair Software
by Oasys Design and Development
Art Affair Software (v. 2.1) is a Windows-based program designed to help artists in any medium manage the business aspects of their artistic endeavors. Art Affair will track your inventory, prepare shopping lists, price finished items, and handle bookkeeping chores.
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 Lacy’s Stiff Stuff: Is it worth the price?
By Kevin Henry
I’ve heard a lot of people argue about the cost of Lacy’s Stiff Stuff versus pellon. Some say Lacy’s Stiff Stuff is worth the cost; others say that pellon is the same thing as Lacy’s Stiff Stuff. So I decided to test Lacy’s Stiff Stuff against pellon.
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 Faux Bone™
Creator Robert Dancik
Faux Bone™ is a new, user friendly, inexpensive and extremely versatile material. Faux Bone™ can be cut, and carved, sawn and sanded. It can be filed, hammered, polished, drilled, stamped, riveted, inlayed, dyed, and painted.
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