Amazing what you can do with old zippers. The contemporary handmade jewelry trend with vintage zippers has been a craze for years now. Still, I do spot new jewelry designs still today. Sure you’ve seen our ‘Zipper Jewelry’ -tutorial before. It was simple back then. Today I want to show you the added sophistication that [...]
Made a pair of New Age earrings: gold-colored owl pendants with turquoise beads. Turquoise Beads These beads are ordinary turquoise-dyed beads, but the real deal: semi-precious turquoise. Real turquoise is typically a little less vibrant in color as their dyed substitutes, so that’s how you know the difference. Also real turquoise beads are actually [...]
: free project of a beautiful designer necklace with laced beads by world-renowned beadwork designer Diane Fitzgerald. While the beads remind her of fortunetellers and gypsies, the necklace is actually tasteful ‘bling’ that has never been more fun to make. Pin It You can download this free project here, or sign up for [...]
I did discovered something new, that’s just so cool that I wanted to share it with you: Did you know that if you take a bit of (your favorite) mohair wool yarn and you wrap it loosely around your finger 2-3 times, and you go about your business of cooking and cleaning, along with usual [...]
Oh, we all crave creativity. But sometimes copycat-designs are ‘just the thing’ to shave off time of making something ‘unique’. Here’s a novel idea that looks so ‘belonging’, that could be made with recycled items. I’d long to make it one day: a tribal necklace a la designer Proenza Schouler’s Resort Collection 2011. [...]
I had a golden name necklace when I was about four years old. Did you too??!! (Am I giving my age away now??? Yes, it was long time ago.) ;Well, these old fashioned name necklaces are back. Big time!! How so? New York Celebrities are wearing these instead of the LA glam girls’ beaded leather [...]
Step-by-Step Instructions 1. Collect materials: string, or strip of leather, or yarn or jewerly wire coverd in fabric,….. ~ or equivalent.. + pretty beads + tools to attach beads. 2. String them together, creating a long beaded jewel for the book bottom end, and a tiny beaded end-jewel to be topping out of the closed [...]
Linky Party-time. Last week, I contributed a day’s worth of lessons from my jewelry repair workshop. Today, my Linky Party contribution is an overview of all 50 jewelry articles we have on this site, many of which I bet you’ve never seen before. Bookmark this page for future reference, and link up your own party [...]
This jewelry-making tutorial features the necklace-making basics. You can find the basic beading instructions on how to make a necklace in this video.
Now with your kids at home who want something fun to do, I thought to show our series of handmade jewelry tutorials and ideas. HANDMADE FASHION JEWELRY: BRACELETS & NECKLACES Fine Craft Guild’s Handmade Jewelry Directory Ideas & Tutorials for Unique Jewelry Projects Beaded jewelry Barbie Doll Jewelry Crochet jeweler Cheap but fun [...]
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