Jewelry Making Magazines

On the beach, in a bubble bath, on the train, in a café . . . I've always got a favorite jewelry magazine nearby. Even if I'm not sitting down to actually make the jewelry projects I see in Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry and Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazines, I'm always in the mood for browsing and inspiration. It sounds simple, but I love the big project photos in jewelry magazines, and I love seeing all the new jewelry-making materials featured by the editors as well as in the ads. Yes, I just said I love magazine ads! All those new tools and supplies get my creative juices flowing, and I'm constantly tearing out pages of things I want to make, remember, or order. Plus jewelry-making magazines feel timeless to me; I can pick up a year-old (or five-year-old!) jewelry magazine and enjoy it just as much as I enjoyed it when it first arrived.