Farewell, Squidoo

It is with a heavy heart that I write that Squidoo will be no more. Squidoo has been the home of my online articles for 8 years, one of the best online writing platforms on the web, and a fun, supportive community that I and my fellow writers on the site will miss terribly. I have been very honored to be the official Squidoo Contributor for the Bangles, Baubles and Beads niche, and I will forever be grateful to Seth Godin, Megan Casey, Corey Brown, Gil Hildebrand, Bonnie Diczhazy, Robin Svedi, Susan Deppner, Stephanie Mangino, and the many people who made Squidoo a truly remarkable place.

Now I have to make some difficult decisions about where to move my more than 70 articles that currently reside on Squidoo. HubPages will be acquiring some of Squidoo's content, and I plan to move many of my articles there. But not all of my articles are a good fit for HubPages, and I may well be moving some of my jewelry making articles here, my recipe articles elsewhere, and the rest of my articles to still other sites. I promise to let everyone know as soon as I do where they can find my content in the future.

In the short term, until all the jewelry making articles I've linked to from this blog have found new homes, some of them may be temporarily inaccessible. If so, I apologize sincerely in advance. I will do my best to get my content relocated and update the links accordingly. In the interim, I hope you will understand and hang in there with me through the transition period.

Many thanks for your support!

Margaret

I was just interviewed on Squidoo!

Recently I was interviewed by Robin Svedi of Squidoo about my new role as Squidoo's "Bangles, Baubles and Beads" Contributor. I was really exciting this morning to see it posted on the Squidoo HQ blog!

If you'd like to find out how I fell in love with jewelry making when I was a young girl (thanks to my mom and some gorgeous Venetian glass beads) and ended up designing and making one-of-a-kind jewelry professionally, I invite you to check it out. :)



My interview about becoming Squidoo's new "Bangles, Baubles and Beads" Contributor

Welcome to the "Bangles, Baubles and Beads" Jewelry Making Techniques Blog!

Hi! I'm Margaret Schindel - jewelry artist, Senior Editor/Technical Editor of Metal Clay Artist Magazine and the new Bangles, Baubles and Beads contributor on So Crafty magazine on Squidoo.

I love making jewelry using many different materials and techniques including contemporary and vintage glass beads, findings and components - especially vintage-inspired jewelry; silver, gold, bronze and other metals - especially metal clay techniques; polymer clay - especially polymer clay mokume gane; and an ever growing number of others.

Here are some examples of my jewelry designs:

I also love learning new jewelry making techniques and sharing my experience, expertise and discoveries with other jewelry artists and jewelry lovers. So whether you're a jewelry making newbie or a professional jewelry artist, you'll find tips, trends, techniques, tutorials and plenty of inspiration from me and other jewelry makers. Start by checking out my helpful jewelry making articles and tutorials on metal clay jewelry, beaded jewelry and polymer clay jewelry as well as all my crafting and jewelry making articles on Squidoo.

Let's have some fun and share our passion for jewelry making together!

~ Margaret