Marie Dans Le Jardin Necklace

Mixed Media Jewelry Workshop
Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:00a~3:00p
Nancy Jamar, Designer and Instructor
Workshop Fee: $60 (kit included)

Create this lovely little mixed media necklace in our theme of "Marie in the Garden," incorporating cold connection techniques, wire wrapping, collage, metal aging, image under glaze and even a little sewing thrown in for good measure...we will do it all! The end product is a necklace that includes vintage velvet ribbon, findings, pearls and a portrait of Marie herself.

This is a good intermediate class for those students who have already done some cold connection or lots of fun for beginners willing to tackle a little bit of everything. All materials are included in this class, including the fabulous pearls shown, old stock Miriam Haskell and new baroque keishi. Please bring your jewelry tools if you have them.

Marie's sweet countenance gazes out at us from under a leafy bough set with a single vintage rhinestone. Below her a tiny fleur de lis dangles in front of the baroque keishi. The necklace itself is created from a combination of Czech faceted glass, pearls and rolo style chain in an assymetrical design, as unexpected as Marie herself!



All class fees are prepaid. Kit fees are paid directly to the artist. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help! Details on the class blog at www.gildingthelilyclasses.blogspot.com.

French Florettes with Dollybelle!

Beaded French Flower Workshop
Friday Evening, March 13, 2009 5:00p~9:00p
Christine Rose Elle, Designer and Instructor
Workshop Fee: $65 (or $115 if combined with the Manon Dore Nest)

Learn the centuries old art of French beaded flowers, which date to as early as the 1500s! Under Christine's skilled tutelage, you'll learn all the techniques you need to start creating your own dazzling floral compositions with wire and seed beads.

Create flowers, leaves and buds using the techniques learned in this class, and fashion your components into a wonderful French beaded brooch, or use them to adorn a mixed media art composition, as Christine does in her shadowboxes (shown below).


Friday evening's class may be continued with Saturday's Manon Dore Nest for a combined workshop fee of $115 for both days. Samples for both classes are on display in the store.

All supplies are included in kit fee:
• beads
• wire
• beading mat
• floral tape
• bead cups
• clippers

Please bring:
• pair of small jewelry pliers


All class fees are prepaid. Kit fees are paid directly to the artist. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help! Details on the class blog at www.gildingthelilyclasses.blogspot.com.

Manon Dore French Nest

French Beaded Flower Composition
and Mixed Media Workshop
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:00a~3:00p
Christine Rose Elle, Designer and Instructor
Workshop Fee: $65.00 (or $115 for two classes; French Florettes and Manon Dore Nest)

Inspired by Shakespeare's Spring song from Love's Labors Lost

"Daisies bloom and violets blue
Lady Slippers all silver white
Blooming buds of yellow hue
Paint meadows with delight.

Maidens dance in ribboned ring
Blooms of every tree
Hearing gentle robin sing
Spring is here sings he."

Create this lovely mixed media composition centered around the art of French beaded florettes. The traditional art of wired beaded florals originated in France, and is transformed here under the artful hands of Christine Rose Elle of Dollybelle Atelier into this charming tableau.

Create your own homage to Mistress Spring! Call her in with Gilded nest and Beaded Florette!
Learn french flower beading techniques and make this tinsel nest birdies and all! Kit fee is included and contains:
• paper mache' egg half
• birds
• tinsel
• trims and papers
• faux flowers (if you do not take the Florette class)

If you have the following please bring:
• needle and thread
• Modge Podge
• yukky brush for glue
• scissors
• any ribbons, trims, thin paper you might want to personalize your project with

• Christine will provide glue guns and other various supplies!

Students wishing to take both Christine's Friday evening class in French Florettes and continue Saturday with the Manon Dore Nest may register at the reduced rate of $115 for both classes.


All class fees are prepaid. Kit fees are paid directly to the artist. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help! Details on the class blog at www.gildingthelilyclasses.blogspot.com.

Relics Locket Necklace

Mixed Media Jewelry Workshop
Sidney Hanner, Designer, Instructor
Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:00-3:00 Skill Level-All
$60 Class Fee (Kit Fee, $8.00)


Compose a beautiful locket filled with relics of your own family members and tiny treasures that recall them. Or, choose a different theme for your locket and make it your own. Learn to wire wrap buttons of all kinds, tiny Christmas bulbs and car fuses, and then give them the look of soldered charms with out the soldering! A vintage finish surrounds the picture on the top of the tin and wiring the relics tin to your decorated chaining completes the project!

Materials List: (students bring these materials):
Buttons for chain and tassel (approx. 25 to 30, vintage or not) and small ones for the tin • Fibers of any kind (knitting or creche thread, metallic, eyelash, etc.) in several colors and different textures • Good written script for encasing in charms (bulbs and fuses, furnished by instructor) • Chain in the length of your choice • Pictures: one for the Tin top and 2 for the inside (no originals please, re-sized on a good matte card stock, sprayed with a fixative • Red back double stick tape or one that is fairly heat resistant, for all 3 pictures • E600 glue to secure buttons, charms, beads, pearls, memorabilia, earrings etc. on top of tin as well as inside • Wire: at least 2 feet 20 gauge, and 6 feet 22 gauge for attaching buttons and charms (wire can be sterling silver, copper, gold filled or colored art wire) • Clasp: your choice or make from the 20 ga wire • Tools: flat and round needle nose pliers, wire cutters, embossing heat tool if you have one (Instructor will supply two)Your Kit Includes: Written instructions in color • pre-drilled and fired Altoids tin • cardboard for risers inside tin • ribbon to heat and melt for vintage look inside tin • assortment of embossing powders and adhesive • Diamond glaze for tin top picture. Sid will have different fibers, tiny Christmas bulbs and fuses ready for wire wrap, glass glitter, and extra tools to use, fan brushes for diamond glaze, sand paper, and extra embossing heating guns.

All class fees are prepaid. Kit fees are paid directly to the artist. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help! Details on the class blog at www.gildingthelilyclasses.blogspot.com.

"Paris" Vintage French Souvenir Bracelet

Cold Connection and Collage Jewelry Workshop
Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:00a~3:30p
Nancy Jamar, Designer and Instructor
Workshop Fee: $60 (all supplies included)

I've always had a fondness for the old French souvenir bracelets, and have several in my collection; one from Lourdes, several from Paris, but I have a particular love for the old mother of pearl and filigree bracelets. We now stock the "Amour" bracelet at Gilding the Lily, and many of you have asked for a "Paris" bracelet as well. We will introduce our new Paris bracelet with this class, and the kit as well.


Composed of mother of pearl discs, filigrees, rings, and stamped brass letters spelling out "Paris," the bracelet is finished with a fob of mother of pearl with a beautiful fleur de lis collaged on top. Each letter is separated by a beautiful faceted mother of pearl rondelle....

Class will be held Sunday, April 19, from 11:00~3:30. Cost is $60, and everything is included... just bring yourself, and tools if you have them. This bracelet will also be available as a kit ($45.00) for those of you who live outside the area. All cold connection techniques, with vintage styling and authenticity.


All class fees are prepaid. Kit fees are paid directly to the artist. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help! Details on the class blog at www.gildingthelilyclasses.blogspot.com.

Victorian Festoon Necklace

Cold Connection and Collage Jewelry Workshop

Nancy Jamar, Designer, Instructor

Sunday, March 15, 2009 11:00-3:00 Skill Level-All

$50 Class Fee (Kit Included, see below)

This Victorian-styled festoon necklace is built on a base of chain in different sizes and weights to create texture and interest. The main focal will be an antique metal button combined with old mother of pearl and collaged on a lovely filigree, and shaped filigree bails will be made from connectors, and joined with textured rings. The inner festoon of chain will hold a lovely vintage heart-shaped locket, set with a mother of pearl cabochon.

This is a great beginning to intermediate cold connection class that lets you leave with a lovely necklace finished and ready to wear with your best dress or jeans and boots. If you have additional components, beads, or dangles that you would like to incorporate into your design, please bring them to class, and we’ll work with them during the composition of your necklace. We will build the book chain shown, as well as the decorative bails/connectors.

All class fees are prepaid. Kit fees are paid directly to the artist. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help! Details on the class blog at www.gildingthelilyclasses.blogspot.com.

Memories Under Glass with Sherry Goodloe

“Memories Under Glass”
Mixed Media Jewelry Workshop
Sherry Goodloe, Designer, Instructor
Sunday, March 8, 2009 12:00-3:00 Skill Level-All
$40 Class Fee (Kit Included, see below)

Create your own “memories under glass” with Sherry Goodloe in this mixed media jewelry project using antique opticians’ lenses, ephemera, as well as your own pieces of memorabilia and meaningful items.
All supplies will be included by the artist, with the exception of tools. Please bring with you a pair of detail scissors and any personal items you would like to include in your necklace (you may want to make copies of vintage or antique photos, retaining your originals; make sure photos, or the image area you want to work with, are no larger than 1.5x1.5 inches in size.
You will create a vintage optical lens necklace with your photos or images, or you will be able to select from image sand clip art that Sherry will bring with her. Decorative papers, printed words, watch parts and other bits and bobs will be supplied by Sherry to embellish your necklace, as well as a choice of ball chain or velvet ribbon for your necklace, and suede leather for backing your pendant.


All class fees are prepaid. Kit fees are paid directly to the artist. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help! Details on the class blog at www.gildingthelilyclasses.blogspot.com.

"Wired Embrace" Necklace

Mixed Media Jewelry Workshop
Sidney Hanner, Designer, Instructor
Saturday, March 28, 2009 11:00-3:00 Skill Level-All
$55 Class Fee (Kit Fee, $6.00)

Explore free-form wire-wrapping and wired component techniques with Sidney Hanner and this piece called “Wired Embrace.” This is a beautiful mixed media piece that incorporate found items, buttons, stones, beads and imagery.


You will learn several wire wrapping techniques, fiber bead construction, how to forge an “S” hook closure, wrapping beads and charms.

Materials List: Wire: 20, 22, and 16 gauge; the latter you will need the least...only a foot or so. Most of the work will be done in 20 and 22 gauge wire...your choice of copper, gold filled, or silver. Jump rings, a dozen or so heavy duty ones in the same metal, and chain to match. Patin solutions available at store for use.Beads of your choice, chandelier drops (2 hole variety), vintage buttons and charms.


Tools required: Small hammer, round and flat nose pliers, wire nippers, and bench block. Your Kit Includes: Full color instruction booklet • Pre-soldered focal bead ready to wire wrap and add an image • Diamond Glaze • Fibers to make a couple of fiber beads if you like and some glass seed beads (liver of sulfur if needed)

All class fees are prepaid. Kit fees are paid directly to the artist. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help! Details on the class blog at www.gildingthelilyclasses.blogspot.com.

Links of Love - Part Deux!

Links of Love Deux

Friday, February 20th 5:30 – 8:30pm
Skill Level – All
Price $65 Includes Class Kit and Supplies

Links of Love make their appearance once again in this divine necklace. Who can resist the wee bit of pink we all fell in love with the first time, a flash of crystal and a splash of vintage that all come together to create the “Links of Love” necklace; a piece of jewelry that echoes the beauty of the past.


Join Somerset Artist and Writer Kristen Robinson in creating this delightful necklace. Sterling silver charms with words full of love intertwine with pearls, vintage charms, rosary chain, silver chain and the centerpiece - a felted heart. The class is process based with bounds of inspiration to take with you into other projects. We will cover basic composition, jump rings, wire wrapping and the principles of needle felting. Please feel free to bring additional trinkets or charms you may wish to attach to your necklace.

To reserve your space call Gilding the Lily at (714) 680-8893
Please Bring With you
• Needle Nose Pliers (for jewelry)
• Wire Cutters

Included in your Class Kit
• Silver Chain
• Sterling Silver Charms
• Crystal Rondelles
• Sterling Silver Wire
• Handcrafted Felted Heart Charm
• Vintage Charms
• Swarovski Crystals
• Jump Rings
• Inspiration and Delight