Rena Klingenberg

Wow!  Check out these official Fall 2012 colors! What a tropical feel this Fall palette has. If someone had handed me this color chart and said, “Guess what season this is for?” . . . I would have said “Summer.” Here are the Pantone Fall 2012 colors: Top row, left to right: Pink Flambe French [...]

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When I first moved to the town where I now live, I asked one of my new friends if there was a health food store in this area. My new friend, who was born and raised here, answered, “There is a health food store – but the lady who owned it died.  Is that not [...]

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I’m working hard on the finishing touches to the “Jewelry Blogging Success Guide” I promised you. I’m also creating a “Q and A” resource with my answers to the jewelry blogging questions you sent me – which I’ll be posting here soon! In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek from one section of my upcoming [...]

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I got in touch with this panel of experienced jewelry artists, and I asked each of them: “What’s one thing you wish you’d known when you first started selling your work at events?” Their generous answers are a treasure trove of tips and experience: ———— Karen Wolffis: How much work and effort goes into a [...]

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A while back, a jewelry artist told me she felt boxed in by her customers’ expectations. She had become successful with a particular style of jewelry she created, but she’d gotten really tired of making it. She yearned to create new, different jewelry items – and felt jealous of the creative new directions she saw [...]

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The Pantone Color of the Year 2012 has been announced today. It’s called Tangerine Tango – a warm reddish orange that’s “reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset”: Of course you may want to include Tangerine Tango in your jewelry designs if you have components in that color. But as always, many people will [...]

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About a year and a half ago I had a glimpse into the future. While visiting the Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, I went to a presentation given by one of the museum’s scientists. He told us about several of the fascinating scientific advances that were being worked on then at [...]

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