Jewelry Making

Link Love: Beading Websites

February 25th, 2010 at 05:00am Under Jewelry Making+ Sites We Love

Yesterday, I published a post on how to get started with free beading patterns. I outlined the tools and materials you will need for beading and defined essential terms such as “crimping.” You can browse a huge collection of free beading patterns at FaveCrafts, including 101 Free Beading Patterns. Here are some additional sources on [...]

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How To: Beading Basics + Video

February 24th, 2010 at 10:30am Under Jewelry Making

My wedding is coming up in just a few months, so my latest planning projects are for all those little details that I didn’t think about in the beginning. The wedding favors, the ceremony “rice toss” (in our case, eco confetti), thoughtful gifts for our wedding day helpers, and of course jewelry for all my [...]

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How to: Get Started with Free Beading Patterns

February 24th, 2010 at 05:00am Under Jewelry Making

If you scroll down looking at the right sidebar of our blog, you will see a poll with the question, “Which new craft would you most like to learn?”  The most popular response with 32% of respondents thus far has been Beading. Many of you indicate that you would like to learn beading as your [...]

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Gift Sunday: Everyone Loves Jewelry

November 15th, 2009 at 10:00am Under Jewelry Making

My girl friends and I exchange small gifts every year around the holidays. We’ve lightened up over the past couple of years, because we’ve all steadily had more and more people to buy for as we get older. So last year we implemented a system where we have to make gifts for each other. Nothing [...]

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49 Days Till Christmas: Homemade Christmas Jewelry

November 6th, 2009 at 05:00am Under Christmas+ Jewelry Making

Get festive this season with homemade Christmas jewelry. These craft projects will help you to spruce up your outfit for a Christmas party, feast or other function. Homemade Christmas jewelry also makes a great holiday gift. Here are my five favorites:
Merry Christmas Stamped Necklace- Stamped metal is an easy-to-learn jewelry technique with impressive results.

Snowflake Angel [...]

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The Beginner’s Guide to the Perfect Crimp

October 18th, 2009 at 12:11pm Under Jewelry Making+ Uncategorized

You can’t make most strung jewelry without out knowing how to crimp. Crimping is the process of attaching your beading wire (thread) to your clasp or closure. For example in making a necklace, you’d have to crimp the toggle clasp (2 pieces) to each end of your bead wire. You’ll crimp one end of the [...]

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Jewelry eBook

September 20th, 2009 at 11:56am Under Jewelry Making

The team at FaveCrafts have put together an eBook, a unique guide to making your own homemade jewelry. These lovely pieces of jewelry look like they were professionally made. In 25 Easy to Make Homemade Jewelry Ideas, you can create your own bracelets, pendants, necklaces and more! The best part about making this jewelry is [...]

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Inspired at Home – Friendly Plastic is back!

September 18th, 2009 at 10:19am Under Jewelry Making

At the Inspired at Home East Coast studio, one of the most popular hand-made gifts at Christmas-time is jewelry. Beaded, baubled, shiny and sleek. It’s a great hand-made for anyone on your holiday list. And I’m not just talking women here! The guys are really loving the retro black macramé wristbands these days (I didn’t [...]

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Product Review and Giveaway: Rings and Things Jewelry Findings

September 4th, 2009 at 05:00am Under Jewelry Making+ Product Reviews

I just introduced a brand new category at FaveCrafts, Holiday Jewelry, which features many jewelry craft projects from Rings & Things. They are a fantastic resource for those interested in jewelry craft. The Rings & Things jewelry findings featured below are a great way for beginners to start making their own jewelry. Inside these “blanks,” [...]

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Handmade Jewelry

September 2nd, 2009 at 02:59pm Under Jewelry Making

Make your own jewelry this season. It’s always nice to wear jewelry and get complimented on it, but it’s even better when you get complimented on the jewelry you made. Jewelry is always a really nice gift to give someone and it makes it even more special if it was made from the heart. While [...]

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