• I have had a amazingly busy holiday season in my Online Store at Etsy. I have had almost 40 sales in December, which definitely makes for a busy season.  I am very appreciated of all of my wonderful customers!

• I will be putting my Etsy Store on Vacation from Dec 24th-Jan 1st. Please take a look through my Sold Items to see the pieces I have available.  I will be making my shop active again on the 1st, so you will be able to order online again after that day.

• In January I will be working on many custom pieces.  If you would like to have a custom piece of jewelry made for Valentine’s Day, contact me asap with your design ideas and any reference images you might have.

• Please become a fan on Facebook! If you have a piece of my jewelry, or have bought it as gift, please take the time to write a Review for me under the Reviews Tab.  Thank you in Advance! Once I have 25 reviews, I will do a drawing and one lucky person will win a free piece of jewelry!

Become a Fan on Facebook, and Leave a Review for a chance to win jewelry!

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I am now offering 20% OFF of select pieces of jewelry at the Garden Bouquet and Design in Marquette, Michigan.  Sale items are located upstairs.

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• All orders for Christmas must be placed by Wednesday December 16th to arrive on time. If you are still looking to order Christmas gifts after this date, please contact me.

• All custom requests should be finalized by Monday December 14th to arrive in time for Christmas.

Please take a look at my online store at Etsy for your Holiday Shopping!

All orders for Christmas must be placed before Wednesday December 16th to arrive on time. If you are still looking to order Christmas gifts after this date, please contact me.

All custom requests should be finalized by Monday December 14th to arrive in time for Christmas.

I will be selling my hand crafted sterling silver, copper and brass jewelry at the Annual Poor Artist Sale in Calumet, MI Saturday December 5th 2009.

All Matching Sets in my Etsy Shop are on sale for $10 less than buying the pieces seperately!

Beth Millner Online Jewelry Sale

My new owl pieces originated when a friend started asking about owl jewelry.  A couple of days after she had asked me, I saw two great horned owls in our blackberry patch.  It was an amazing sight to see and then I was inspired to make owl jewelry.  Lately this has turned into an owl drawing obsession, so I will probably post pictures of them eventually!

Silver Owl Ring

Silver Owl Pendant

Copper Owl Pendant

I had spent my summer trying to think up a way to make reversible earrings and I finally came around to a very simple solution!  I have been making reversible tree pendants over the summer and I kept thinking that my customers would love to have reversible earrings to go with their reversible pendants.

If you have a pair of my earrings that would look nice reversed, ask me about an upgrade to reversible ear wires.

Here are some of my new reversible earrings.

Reversible Small Leafy Silver Tree Earrings

To reverse the tree on the earring, you just un-thread the tree over the ear wire, flip it over then thread it back on.

Reversible Leafy Silver Tree Earrings

Reversible Small Silver Blizzard Tree Earrings

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I will be selling my handcrafted sterling silver, copper and brass jewelry at the 9th Annual MACC holiday Art Sale! Please come visit me and take a look for some precius handmade items for Christmas Gifts!  The Show is this Saturday November 14th 2009 from 10am-5pm.  The Marquette Arts and Culture Center is located in the lower level of the Peter White Public Library.

I have a new series of Owl pieces that will be debuting at this show!  Here is a sneak peek of what I have been working on!

Owl Sketches

Owl jewelry in progress

Trunk Show

Come to Bella Bella November 19th 2009 to see my handcrafted jewelry, sign up for a Silversmithing Class and get some Christmas Goodies!  Bella Beads is located at 325 W. Washington and the Trunk Show will go from 4-8pm!  Let us know that you saw this on my Blog and receive 10% off of any of my handmade jewelry!  Also, sign up for a chance to win $100 off of any Silversmithing Class or some free pieces of my jewelry!

I am offering many Silversmithing classes at Bella Beads throughout the fall and winter, please take a look at the classes available at Bella Beads by clicking on any of the images below.

Introduction to Silversmithing: Hammered Sterling Silver and Copper Earrings

Introduction to Silversmithing II: Soldering

Introduction to Silversmithing III: Soldering Rings

Intermediate Silversmithing: Bezel Setting

Forming, Rolling and Twisting

Well I have had a very busy summer, I just finished my last two shows of the season and now I am taking a bit of a break, or at least slowing down.  I had 5 best shows over the summer meaning that 5 shows beat my top show of last summer.

My sales have more than doubled compared to 2008 and my business has seen some staggering growth! My body is also responding to all of the work and I had to make a chiropractor appointment… I think my shoulders are out of whack from being at my bench so much this summer. I have been still keeping up with orders, but generally slowing down my production for a few weeks.

Mike and I are going to be moving to town in the next month or so. We have loved living in our little cabin, but space and time are getting the best of us and we have found that it is time to move back into Marquette. I am very excited to have a whole room for a studio space rather than a one room house to do everything in. We have lived in two different one room houses since 2007, neither was bigger than 18X18 ft square. We are pretty confident we are going to rent a larger house close to downtown, walking distance from Bella Beads and most of the places I go in town.

I will be teaching many Silversmithing classes this month, please take a look at Bella Beads for more information.

Fall has started very abruptly in the last few days. We had our first fall frost on Thursday night and the entire garden had to be picked. We probably got 20lbs of tomatoes this year!

I have listed many new items in my Etsy Shop please take a look for any of your Christmas shopping needs!