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This week's IndieMade featured artisan is Lisa Boland of Lisa Boland Designs. She's here to talk about how she honed her love of all things sparkly into a business and how she keeps the creative fires burning when there's always so much to do. An IndieMade "veteran" -- here's Lisa Boland.

This week we're talking with one of the queens of IndieMade social media marketing. We see Nancy on Twitter everyday sharing her pieces as well as pieces from fellow artisans both on IndieMade and Etsy. Today, she's here to talk about how she got started selling online, what inspires her and what she would do if she had the whole day to herself. Please welcome Nancy of Jazz it Up with Designs by Nancy.

Taking a good photograph is just the first step in the product photography process. Pretty often, when photographing small products, the photograph is larger than life size. For example, a ring is about an inch wide but the picture can be five to ten times as big as that. When viewing products at this magnitude, all the minor scratches, blemishes, reflections, etc. suddenly become visible and make your product look bad. That’s when photo editing and retouching becomes important.

Are you a jewelry designer on the lookout for really unique beads and pendants? If so, there are many wonderful art bead resources available on IndieMade. Art Beads can be defined as "A bead, charm, button or finding made by an independent artist. Art beads are the vision and handiwork of an individual artist. " Art beads are not made in a factory. They are handmade individually or in small batches. Art beads can be handmade of glass, textiles, ceramic, polymer clay, metals etc. The key points are that they result from the creative ideas and the hands of the artist who is offering them. Each of the artists highlighted below are well worth a visit. You'll find yourself excited and inspired to create fabulous jewelry designs with their tiny works of art!