Rings by Nana V. Mizushima

Well-known jewelry designer and author Nana V. Mizushima has been hard at work on a new book title. It's called Make Your Own Rings and covers a variety of jewelry making techniques such as metal clay, resin, silver, and wire, all focusing on making rings.

Besides mixing up techniques, which you don't often see in many jewelry making books, another "out side of the box" idea implemented by the author is to offer the text in a few different ways. You can get a hardcopy of the entire text, either from Amazon.com or her web site, or you can purchase downloadable pdf instructions for individual projects. So for example, if you aren't interested in metal clay but like some of the wire ring projects in the book, you can just purchase the wire ring projects you want, one or all of them. I have to say that this is a pretty clever idea! You can find more information about her book along with a Table of Contents, pictures of projects, sample pages and more at her Make Your Own Rings web site.