Featured Texas Artfire Shop

This week's featured studio is A Blond and A Torch. Jenn creates simply beautiful jewelry and loves custom orders.

A Blond And A Torch offers artisan crafted metal jewelry that is simple and organic, yet elegant. Each piece is designed and hand crafted by Jen Nixon in her home studio in Texas with an eye towards wearability. Working primarily in solid sterling silver , A Blond And A Torch creates earrings, bangle bracelets and necklaces in a variety of sizes and styles and welcomes custom orders.

http://ablondandatorch.blogspot.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennixon/

3zArt Texas Artfire Promotion

3zart on Texas Artfire Promotion, read about here!

What did I do yesterday? Organized a craft fair!

That's right, as Guild Master of the Texas Artfire Guild I organized my first ever and Texas Artfire's first ever craft fair. It was small and intimate; more of an experiment but I feel confident stating that it was a success and everyone involved from sellers, customers and venue managers ended up happy with the results. You can read about it on the Texas Artfire Blog complete with pics of the attending Houston area artisans.

I started Texas Artfire with the primary goal of networking Texas artisans. If we pool our knowledge and resources we can create our own low/no cost venues and long term business relationships. Most of us love customs orders and what better why to find and create future business that networking with each other. If each of us has only one great idea think of the potential since great ideas tend to breed environments for more great ideas. That's the mission of Texas Artfire.

2 Belles and a Bead Texas Artfire Promotion

Sorry folks! I meant to start this promotion last Monday but some personal issues tripped me up and it had to be delayed. But here we are! The first Texas Artfire shop to be promoted is:

2 belles and a bead
Pictured is a beautiful lariat necklace listed in their shop along with many other gorgeous items.
This very lovely shop is run by a mother and daughter team, Karen and Crystal.

In their own words: We started about five years ago (wow, has it really been that long?!), and our passion for the art gets deeper every day. We especially love working with gemstones and metals.

We have a wide variety of items and also do custom jewelry orders of just about any kind. So if you're looking for something specific, ask away and we can probably create it for you. :o)

If you're looking for jewelry supplies, check out our other shop: http://BellesBeadsnThings.artfire.com