Button Bliss

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Some of you may know my beads, www.joanmillerporcelain.etsy.com
or www.joanmiller.com. My beads have been published in various bead magazines and the Lark book, "Bead Love." In 2005 my Scarab and Dragonfly Necklace won first place clay category Lapidary Journal Bead Arts Awards and in 2007 my Mermaid and Sea Creatures bead collection won first place handmade beads or buttons in Bead and Button's Bead Dreams competition.

Well...anything I can do on a bead, I can do on a button. Buttons may be listed as sets or singles. I am primarily a bead and jewelry artist working in porcelain. My primary Etsy shop is Joan Miller Porcelain. The other day I got the urge to make buttons which I have not made in years. I'm not sure why but I just wanted a button store.......


Here is a set of six small porcelain buttons. Brown glaze turns blue where is pools in the ridges. Very subtle but pretty. Buttons measure approx. 23mm in diameter and are 6mm thick. Garment with buttons can be machine washed inside out(no dryer please!)









This set of 3 four hole porcelain buttons are approx. 28 mm in diameter and 3.5 mm thick. Handmade with colored porcelain slip(liquid porcelain) with clear gloss glaze on both sides.










This set just looks like a party. Buttons are peacock blue colored porcelain with raised slip chartreuse swirls and pink dots. I made 6 coordinating buttons each with a little variation in pattern. Each button is approx. 23mm in diameter and 4.5mm thick. Buttons are glazed on both sides.

Have a special project that needs a very special button(s)? Let me know! Send me your fabric or yarn snips along with number of buttons, size, style ( 2-hole, 4-hole, or shank)and budget. I will make custom buttons for you. Request pattern or theme or let me design for you. Contact me for mailing address if you have fiber samples for me. When your buttons are done I will list them as reserve for you.

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Amazing Porcelain

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Artist Marsha Hedrick has been a porcelain artist for the last 18 years, although, most of her work has been in the form of doll house miniatures and porcelain dolls. In 2002 she was awarded Fellow status by the International Guild of Miniature Artisans.

"I began working with porcelain when I lived in Australia in 1987. I quickly moved from making large porcelain dolls to making miniatures. When I moved back to the US in 1992 I began to paint on miniature china as well as making doll house porcelain dolls. I have been creating original sculptures in miniature of antique china since 2000. My work in miniatures can be seen on my miniature site Porcelain Fantasies."

"In 1997 I began to design some jewelry pieces although my main artistic outlet was still miniatures. I am now beginning to expand the jewelry line with beads, Native American style jewelry, Celtic designs, and some Asian designs. As a Native American living in the southwest I wanted to take advantage of the location , my heritage and my love of Native American art. I am incorporating some of the designs from the ancient southeastern Indians into my jewelry and other Native American art. Here is a brief overview of the history of the Choctaw which will give a general look at the culture from which I am drawing inspiration. I am now creating original designs with Native American themes in jewelry and Home Decor items. These items can be seen at Natika's Porcelain Art."


Organics -- Tails - Gold & Lustre are hand formed porcelain shapes that are designed to be a focal piece in your design. They are designed to frame a special stone or bead to highlight it. Each organic has holes to allow you to wire or string in beads or stones


This delicate piece is hand formed in marbled porcelain and finished with an iridescent finish and a gold border. These types are designed for use primarily in necklaces and broaches where no large heavy objects are likely to impact them with a lot of force.










Wild Roses Aromatherapy Pendant This pendant features hand painted wild rose design with an iridescent border and gold scrolls by well known miniature artist Nancy Duden. This pendant features multiple small holes around the side and a large hole in the back. The idea is to fill the pendant, which is hollow, with cotton and put a few drops of essential or perfume oil on the cotton. When worn the heat of the body will cause the aroma to diffuse into the air surrounding the wearer, while keeping the oil contained within the pendant preventing irritation and prolonging the effectiveness of the scent. Size:2 3/8" (60mm) wide at widest point by 2 3/8" (60mm) long from top to point.




This is a hand painted pendant with a lovely lady face in the Gibson Girl style. This design will be available as either a pendant or a vessel and some aromatherapy styles. Size: 1 1/4" (32mm) wide by 1 5/8" (42mm) tall.

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Earthen Soul Beads

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Earthen Soul Beads sells pendants and beads lovingly handcrafted from earthen clay and fired in a kiln.

"I am a self-taught artist with a background in natural resources and ecosystem assessment, and you can see the environmental influence in my work. I also love to explore beauty in imperfection, and I like to exploit the juxtaposition of tattered and torn edges with the refined and often fickle nature of fashion and personal adornment."




Lavender from my garden was used to create this green ceramic pendant. I added lots of square green gemstone beads, Czech glass beads, and Bali sterling silver to create a monochromatic look. I finished of the necklace with a high-quality Saki sterling silver clasp, and the necklace has been professionally finished with wire guardians and sterling crimp beads. The necklace measures about 20" long and will come to you gift-boxed for holiday giving.






Brown and black are wonderful color cousins, to me, and I really like them in this necklace. The centerpiece is one of my leaf-impressed porcelain pendants, to which I've attached a sterling silver bail. The necklace portion is comprised of matte Czech glass beads, LIMESTONE "coral" (which, unlike real coral, does not decimate living reefs), horn leaf beads (recycled from natural-mortality animals), and Bali sterling silver. The effect is one that any tree- or Earth-lover would enjoy wearing. The necklace has been finished off with a Celtic pewter clasp made by Tierracast in California. Altogether, the necklace measures about 23" long.

A year or so ago, I decided that it was high time I stop denying my age, so I stopped dyeing my hair. Some days I still feel like there's a stranger staring at me from the mirror!

I began making these "cracked egg" pendants as a way to explore "beauty in imperfection" and to grapple with my own discomfort at growing older. I envisioned the cracks in the clay as the ever-deepening wrinkles around my eyes and wanted to somehow reveal an inner beauty in the clay as a way to pacify myself that I was still beautiful, if not young, and if only on the inside.




This particular Cracked Egg necklace is called "At Peace" to commemorate the realization that I am finally at peace myself in my skin, knowing that I have family and friends who love me and that age is just a number. I still like making these pendants and find the cracks and fissures in the clay to be nearly as important to the characteristics of the clay as they are to my face.

The necklace has no clasp. It is professionally finished in the back with gold-filled crimps and crimp covers and features a small Tierracast pewter "Peace" charm. It also contains "Happy Beads" which benefit Smile Train. Smile Train's doctors provide cleft palate surgeries to children around the world at no charge; those are the large speckled ceramic beads. Green turquoise, fancy agate, Bulgarian ceramic, and Czech glass fill out the rest of the necklace. Altogether, "At Peace" measures approximately 25".

"I work in low- and high-fired clay. Porcelain, terracotta, stoneware, and raku clay all find a place in my repertoire."

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Cindi Ginter

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I love to illustrate, make jewelry and throw pots. I can from time to time take special orders! Art is the best part of my life. I would like to share mine with you!


This clay necklace has elements of green glass and is Raku fired. It is a one of a kind gift for a girl or a guy on your list!











These stoneware earrings are made with with sterling silver and glass beads.












This unisex blue clay pendant is made with glass, and hangs on a black cord. It is very cool looking on either sex.

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Off Center Productions

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We are Lana Weed and Joan Tucker, potters at Off Center Productions, our studio/ gallery in Lacey, Washington.

Lana makes dream boxes, mother bowls, and hand-built and wheel thrown vessels. Joan makes pendants and small sculptural pieces for artisan jewelers.




We are interested in ancient design themes, natural forms, and whimsical designs. All pieces are wheel-thrown or hand-built. We do all our glazing and firing with an electric kiln or raku processes.Off Center Productions is a small pottery studio.




We make handmade, one of a kind porcelain and stoneware pendants, focals, and beads. We also make porcelain and stoneware dream boxes, mother bowls, and trays.

We strive to design beautiful pottery and hope to supply artisan jewelers with focal pieces to use in their craft. We fire to Cone 6 - all of the work is glazed and high fired.



This Necklace designed by Norma Dalton with a porcelain tube from Off Center Productions.


We strive to create mutually beneficial collaborative craft relationships. We sell at shops, shows, ETSY, and in trunk shows. We travel extensively and love to share our work with other crafters around the country. We will create special orders of coordinated glazed porcelain items for mobiles, wind chimes, wall art or other needs. We can make personalized miniatures for scrapbookers and beaders.




This Rust and White Pendant has a folded stringing channel.

We sell most of our pieces to individuals and shops; we list only a sample of the styles on Etsy and ask interested parties to email us or call us as to availability and to arrange for a showing of the entire line.

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Celt Craft Designs

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I hand make glass beads, fuse glass, make ceramic pendants (and beads and cabs), design seed bead patterns, teach classes in metal clay and seed bead work. I enjoy teaching others how to make their own jewelry. My grandparents were Scottish, so of course the Celtic element found its way into my wares.



These focal pieces work up wonderful in a necklace. Jump rings can fit through the hole on either end, and a drop can be added at the bottom for extra "flair". Approx 2 1/4" x 1 1/4".




This Porcelain pendant is in a "star" knot pattern. Approx 2" in diameter.



This pendant is based on a picture of an old Viking knife sheath. This pendant is approx 3/4" x 2 1/2".

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Lynn Barnett Pottery

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Lynn Barnett is a ceramic artist who lives in Henderson NV. She and her husband relocated to the area from Gulfport MS after Hurricane Katrina. She had a thriving pottery business on the coast and is now building a new clientele of collectors in the Las Vegas area.

"I am a ceramic artist that does all hand-building rather than using a potters wheel. I make large work as well as beads and pendants. I work in stoneware clay and fire to cone 6."



This is a hand made ceramic pendant with an abstract design. The pendant has a matte turquoise glaze and a silver wire wrapped bail for easy hanging on a necklace. This piece is 1 1/2 inches long and just over 1 1/2 inches wide.


Lynn’s first introduction to making pottery was a wheel class at George Ohr Museum. From that time on she has been deep in clay. She studied ceramics at Gulf Coast College. She has continued her studies traveling around the country to workshops given by well-known ceramic artists such as Kathy Triplett, Virginia Scothie, Lana Wilson, Michael Sherrill, and Peter Callas.




This is a hand made ceramic pendant with silver wire wrapped as a bail for hanging on a necklace of your choosing. This piece is made out of stoneware clay and has a beautiful green copper patina look glaze. The pendant is a 2 inch circle with the bail sticking out above it 1/4 inch high.


Lynn produces pottery and sculptures in stoneware, preferring to hand build rather than throw on the wheel. Although coils are her favorite method of hand building, she also builds pieces working with an extruder and slabs .She has expanded her body of work to include making beads, pendants, and jewelry from the clay as well. She finds that working in the clay has a very meditative quality that is quite relaxing. Lynn’s work is organic and is inspired by nature.



This is a hand made ceramic pendant with an abstract design. It is made out of stoneware clay and has a fabulous red glaze that is a show stopper. The pendant is 1 1/2 inches long and just over 1 inch wide. It has a hole for hanging on a necklace. Every time I wear one of my red pendants I get a compliment on it. I hope customers enjoy wearing it as much as enjoyed making it.



Lynn’s award winning work has been in many local and national shows. Her pottery is in private collections across the country. Wholesale inquires are welcome.

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C-Urchin Ceramics and Sculptural Jewellery

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Through many years of creating, I have experimented with many different media, both 2D and 3D. I have found it very difficult to focus on using one material, but after joining a ceramics evening class six years ago, I decided that clay would be my material.

I was already used to working in three dimensions as I have had a long standing career as one of the senior sculptors/model-makers at Aardman Animations, working on projects such as “Chicken Run”, “Wallace and Gromit-Curse of the Wererabbit”, “Angry Kid” and “Creature Comforts”. After leaving Aardman to have my baby (now two and a half years old) I have found some (limited) time to develop my own style and techniques in ceramics.


As well as an obsession with coral, I'm also mightily intrigued by microscopic cell structure.

This pendant, covered with a honeycomb of craters has a pool of blood red glass melted into each one. The body of the pendant is unglazed porcelain which has a pitted texture. The pendant has been finished with glass beads and a sterling silver bead. This piece is highly textured and sculptural and measures 1.5 inches/4cm in length with a depth of 0.5 inches/1.5cm.


The main body of my work, the sculptures and sculptural jewelry, are primarily influenced by the clay itself. I do not fight with the clay to make neat edges and smooth, even surfaces, preferring instead to leave the tool marks, the raw edges and the natural texture of the clay. The same applies to the glazes I use…I would like to experiment further, but so far I have found that I am most comfortable with matt stoneware glazes, that show different colours according to their thickness. I also have a penchant for silicon carbide, which when mixed with a glaze causes bubbling and blistering, and also iron oxide spangles ... a few thrown on causes lovely rust spotting, but add them on a little heavier, and the effect is a wonderful sparkly pewter. When possible, I also take part in Raku firings.


This pendant, with a large triple concentric crater and smooth body has a mottled violet and blue stoneware glaze. The grooves have been finished with platinum lustre.

This piece is highly textured and sculptural and measures 1.5 inches/3.5 cm in length with a depth of 0.5 inches/1cm. It is unglazed and initialed on the back.


I also take reference form sea creatures, such as coral, jelly fish and of course, sea urchins. I love working with textures and a lot of my work is pierced. I do not smooth the piercing, but instead choose to keep the barnacle effect as the clay splits as the tool moves through it.


This porcelain pendant has been formed using my own handmade mould and then altered. It has textured petals and has been glazed with a glossy chocolate stoneware glaze with turquoise glass in the petals....this has formed white edges between the glaze and the glass.

This piece is highly textured and sculptural and measures 1.75 inches/4.2 cm long with a depth of 0.3 inches/7mm. It is unglazed and initialed on the back. The piece is finished with glass beads.

This pendant will be supplied with a short (16inch)dark brown cord with silver end caps and a barrel clasp. If you would like a longer cord, or in a different colour (in stock currently-blue, white, red, brown (thinner), green, light blue, black) please send me a message when you order. I also have chiffon ribbons in stock if the customer prefers.

Totally unique and original, these pendants are based on my ceramic sculptures. I have been developing this technique for the past five years influenced by coral, geology and the inherent qualities of the clay itself.

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Buttons Beads -n- Other Things

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This heart shaped pendant is 2 1/4 inches across. It has a sprinkling of bright silver sequins and beads.










This pendant is made from Earthenware Clay fired twice to cones 04-06. Cappuccino Mint glaze, lobster claw clasp.










This fantasy fish button was molded by hand with cone 06 clay. It has two holes, it is initialed and dated on the back.
It is 2 x 1 5/8 inches.

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Wearable Ceramic Art by Jessica Sharrah

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In short, I turned 30 and found my creative side! I LOVE making jewelry and ceramic beads. My style tends towards simplistic....with the knowledge that simple can be absolutely beautiful.



This cute pendant is glazed in a fuchsia pink glaze that flows over the white raised dots. The pendant is 1/8 inches thick; 1 1/2 inches from lobe to tip. Each pendant is handmade in my home from earthenware clay. The piece is formed, then fired. Glazes are applied and refired. Each piece is unique.



A new way to wear ceramic art! An awesome bright orange ring created from earthenware clay. The handformed band is 1/4 inches thick. Perfect for those that are sensitive to metal!

I have personally worn my band for 3 months with no breaking or chipping. However, I recommend removing the ring prior to doing tasks such as....practicing karate-chopping cinder block! Simply use common sense, the bands are ceramic and like any mug or plate will break if dropped on a hard surface.


The ceramic links are created from earthenware clay embedded with wire, glazed in purple and white; about 1/4 inches thick. The jumprings and lobster clasp are quality silver plated. This bracelet is 9 1/2 inches long. I can make adjustments to decrease the size without detracting from the original design (at no cost to the buyer).

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