Category Archives: Making Jewelry

How to make your own jewelry

How To Make A Jewelry Kit

Jewelry kits are great gifts for people who love crafts and/or jewelry. Depending on the person, you can make a simple or more sophisticated kit.
How To Make A Really Simple Kit
Simple kits are could be interchangeable chains and pendants. These are for someone with very little crafting skills but likes variety and personalization. Basically [...]

Happy Mothering Day

In the U.K., today is Mothering Day. This is their version of Mothers Day. To all mothers out there, thank you for all you do.
In the US, Mother’s Day is May 9, 2010. Though that seems far off, if you are actually make jewelry gifts, you may want to buy the [...]

Bracelet Making Ideas

Sometimes one needs inspiration for jewelry making projects, so now that the holiday gifts are opened, I can share some of the crafts I have made. Here are some projects that were finished last minute – I took pictures of them yesterday.
Fun Bracelets
I enjoyed using a variety of clay, glass, cloisonne and gemstone beads [...]

Craft Supplies Sales

If you are an avid crafter – here are two sales to enjoy!
Until 9am (PST) on Thursday, November 12, 2009, Artbeads.com is having it’s famous $1 day sale. There over a 1000 items being sold at $1. Beads, stringing supplies, charms, pendants, and findings.
Create For Less Virtual Craft Warehouse [...]

How to Make Beaded Bracelets

Making jewelry can be very easy. Sometimes we forget just how easy making them is! Here’s our newest video on how to make memory wire bracelets. It shows you step by step what is involved to making a great gift.

We intentionally kept in some of the gotchas that may happen so [...]

Where to Get Beading Supplies

For those who want to start beading, ArtBeads, has great beading supplies.
I have found them to be the cheapest priced vendor for Griffon silk thread on the net when I have searched. Even cheaper than EBay. If you appreciate the convenience of having the needle already attached to the [...]

Beading Supply Sale!

If you like beading, ArtBeads is having their dollar days sale!
Their dollar days sale has over 2000 items at $1.00. This includes a wide selection of beads, stringing material, findings and more. Save up to 60%!
I love the Griffin Silk cards for $1 — they usually are [...]