This necklace uses crystal bicone beads in a different sort of way, making strung wire shapes as accents. You could easily get creative with this, making bows or butterflies or other such things. I stuck with a simple loopy flower. The copper findings work perfectly…
You may think the idea of crocheting wire is difficult, but it’s actually quite easy. We’re not making crocheted fabric here, but only doing a simple chain stitch. The important thing to remember is to string your beads on first. The rest goes…
These little 2-hole sliders make it easy to put together a double strand necklace. You could also use them to make multi-strand bracelets. What creates the scallops is that you use more beads on the lower strand than on the upper. You can design…
Here’s a quick and fun way to use bits of chain to create jewelry tassels that can be used as accents or focal points. You can make them as big or small as you like, use all the same chain or a mixture…
Whenever you make a piece of jewelry with a multitude of elements, like this bracelet with its 63 pearl dangles, there needs to be some kind of unifying factor. In this case it’s shape and finish, as they are all round pearls, plus…
Today’s Friday Findings is a short one that shows a simple, but very effective technique: twisting wire. I show you three different ways to twist wire, including my favorite, with a power drill! Some things you can do with twisted wire: make…
I’ve been meaning to make a bracelet like this one for quite some time, with all the coils and coiled coil beads. The original plan was to use sterling silver filled wire and give it a Liver of Sulfur patina. However, this bracelet uses…
Have you ever come across an interesting object that you thought would be nice in a piece of jewelry but it didn’t have a stringing hole and you didn’t know how to make it work? In today’s video I show you how…
Every time I look at these stick pearls all I can think is “Dragon’s Teeth.” Not sure why, but that’s where my mind goes, so there you have it. I suppose I could have named it “Spiky Stick Pearl Necklace” but that wouldn’t have…
The 1-Step Looper is a tool I spotted in a magazine a while back, went online and watched the demo video and immediately said, “WANT!” But then my practical (and frugal) nature kicked in and I reminded myself that I know very well how to…
