Guest Blog: The Working Girl’s Guide to Handmade Jewelry by Marie Rounsavell

by guest contributor Marie Rounsavell

book-cover-for-sale-on-naughty-secretary-club.jpg The Naughty Secretary Club book is finally out! Way back when, I first  laid my eyes on author Jennifer Perkins’ cute resin bracelets in the ad section of BUST Magazine. Now she’s a big ol’ crafty superstar. With a book! (The lit major in me considers this to be the epitome of success.)
The Working Girl’s Guide to Handmade Jewelry’s 30 step-by-step jewelry projects are well laid out, beautifully photographed

and written with the pith and sass you’ve come to expect from author (and IndieFixx guest blogger) Jennifer Perkins. Projects in the book are rated based on the level of skill you’ll need to complete the project, from “First Day on the Job” to “You Deserve a Raise!” And as every girl knows, even your accessories, must have accessories, so the 30 step-by-step projects are accompanied by 20 more variations to inspire you to tie your look together with a coordinating brooch or earrings.

But let’s get down to brass tacks here; not all crafters are direction followers. Nor do all crafters have access to a multitude of plastic gnomes (though not for lack of wanting). For you, The Working Girl’s Guide to Handmade Jewelry will have you eyeballing that pile of junk mail in a whole new way. For crafters who not only color outside the lines, but who maybe don’t even see the lines, The Working Girl’s Guide to Handmade Jewelry is a mood setter of a craft book, like an album you’d put on to get ready for a party. It’s filled with little side notes of statistical data on office romance, uses for old pantyhose, and the best music to load into your MP3 player for those long, lunch-time walks. Whether you’re a crafter, an actual 9-to-5-er or none of the above, The Working Girl’s Guide to Handmade Jewelry will put you in the Naughty Secretary mood to make use of the things around you in terrific new ways.

A peek inside…

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About the Contributor: Marie Rounsavell writes the blog Marimello. Marimello is a new space to highlight offbeat crafting, discuss the how and why of crafting’s resurgence, and help crafters promote themselves as the original greenies in a big box store world that is getting greener (so they say anyway).

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