Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist May - June 2017

from the editor SEO BOTH FASCINATES and annoys me. On the annoying side, “search engine optimization” is an ungainly mouthful that makes me pause on each word to remember why it means this even longer mouthful: bringing the people you want to your site when they search online for something you can provide. Another thing I don’t like about SEO is that it was developed for the bots, the inhuman searchers in search engines, yet it perversely affects what people find when they arrive at a site: descriptions that may be unclear, awkward, repetitive, ungrammatical, and all the other tsk-tsk things that, as an editor, I especially find objectionable. What fascinates me is that it’s a human not a techie thing that underlies all this weirdness: what you type into a search…

reader comments & sketches Marie-Chantal Nadeau’s Pierced Overlay Silver Pendant with Opal, COVER. Riffon a design feature of this piece such as color, texture, form, value, line, space, repetition, balance, contrast, unity, or variety for your sketch. Sketch a setting for this colla wood cabochon from The Unconventional Lapidarist, Smokin’ Stones, page 30. DEADLINES: JUNE 30, 2017 Email digital scans at 300 DPI or send photocopies of no more than three sketches per challenge, indicating the design factor that is your starting point. Sketches will not be returned. WRITE TO US ANYTIME: What do you think about what you’ve seen and read in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist? SEND SKETCHES & LETTERS for possible print or online publication to: Karla. Rosenbusch@fwmedia.com. Please include your name, city, and state, and indicate “Your Turn” on the subject line.…

from the editor SEO BOTH FASCINATES and annoys me. On the annoying side, “search engine optimization” is an ungainly mouthful that makes me pause on each word to remember why it means this even longer mouthful: bringing the people you want to your site when they search online for something you can provide. Another thing I don’t like about SEO is that it was developed for the bots, the inhuman searchers in search engines, yet it perversely affects what people find when they arrive at a site: descriptions that may be unclear, awkward, repetitive, ungrammatical, and all the other tsk-tsk things that, as an editor, I especially find objectionable. What fascinates me is that it’s a human not a techie thing that underlies all this weirdness: what you type into…

Re: “Rivet-Prong-Set Ring,” March 2017 Nice article, “Smokin’ Stones: Rhodonite,” in the March 2017 issue. By all implications,the following article, “Rivet-Prong-Set Ring,” would feature rhodonite as the two articles directly refer to each other. However, Photo 1 is definitely rhodochrosite in the ring project. Here is a pair of rhodochrosite/pearl earrings I made and donated to a fund-raising event for the National Wildlife Federation and which raised $210, much to my surprise! Knoxville, Maryland…

LUANA COONEN’S Morpho Encasement Earrings Silver, polycarbonate, reclaimed blue morpho butterfly wings “Wearable Discard” Page 42 DELILAH’S Oversized Green Agate Pendant Green agate, copper wire “Wire Wrapped Tourmaline Bead Ring” Page 72 MARIE-CHANTAL NADEAU’S Pendant Sterling silver, sapphire, onyx “The Jewelry of Marie-Chantal Nadeau” Page 24 “Pierced Overlay Silver Pendant with Opal” Page 30 CINDY GOLDRICK’S Cathedral Windows Necklace Steel wire “Falling Leaves Fold Formed Necklace” Page 56 WANT TO BECOME AN LJJA CONTRIBUTOR? Contributors’ guidelines for print or online publication can be found at www.interweave.com/jewelry KIMBERLY NEWMAN’S Slightly Slanted Ring Craft wire, Swarovski crystal beads “Faux Forged Fan” Page 18 KATHLEEN NOWAK TUCCI’S Camille Necklace Recycled inner tubes, metal clay “Wearable Discard” Page 42 KYLIE JONES’S Mixed Chain Maille Bracelet Silver jump rings, washers “Chain Maille and Agate Necklace” Page 66 TARA LOCKLEAR’S Foundation Chained Brooch Recycled broken skateboards, birds eye maple, oxidized sterling silver, leather “Wearable Discard” Page 42…

reader comments & sketches Marie-Chantal Nadeau’s Pierced Overlay Silver Pendant with Opal, COVER. Riffon a design feature of this piece such as color, texture, form, value, line, space, repetition, balance, contrast, unity, or variety for your sketch. Sketch a setting for this colla wood cabochon from The Unconventional Lapidarist, Smokin’ Stones, page 30. DEADLINES: JUNE 30, 2017 Email digital scans at 300 DPI or send photocopies of no more than three sketches per challenge, indicating the design factor that is your starting point. Sketches will not be returned. WRITE TO US ANYTIME: What do you think about what you’ve seen and read in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist? SEND SKETCHES & LETTERS for possible print or online publication to: Karla. Rosenbusch@fwmedia.com. Please include your name, city, and state, and indicate “Your…