jewelllery making for 2010

yukkibear

My makes from this afternoon, all listed in my folksy shop

princesspoppypop

Kandipandi and yukki you have both been busy working on some fab creations.

Kandipandi- I just love your earrings they are amazing.
Yukki- love the green bracelet.

Poppy x

nic2075

Kandipandi, I love the stuff youve made, especially the first one. Can I ask where you got the bracelet with the heart clasp?

Yukkibear, there all really good, the earrings are very cute. i also like the green bracelet.

Kandipandi

nic2075 wrote: »

Kandipandi, I love the stuff youve made, especially the first one. Can I ask where you got the bracelet with the heart clasp?

Yukkibear, there all really good, the earrings are very cute. i also like the green bracelet.

Thanks, the bracelet I made myself, with a length of chain from Totally Beads, a lobster claw clasp and the heart clasp is just a silver plated charm from Jillybeads.

LJM

yukkibear love your pieces they are really nice

clairewop

lovely peices from everyone here

thistledome

Kandipandi wrote: »

Thanks, the bracelet I made myself, with a length of chain from Totally Beads....

I went to their site from your post and bought some seed beeds and got them the next day, which I was very impressed with. (Essex to W. Scotland in less than 24 hrs!).

Anybody got any tips for working with seed beeds? I've never had any before and I'm currently picking them up with a licked finger and threading them onto the wire from there. Have dropped a couple and lost them. How do you experts handle them?

Also, can anyone recommend a good basic beginners book for beads and wire? There are so many books available and they're all quite expensive. Our tiny local library has none.

Taypier

thistledome wrote: »

Anybody got any tips for working with seed beeds? I've never had any before and I'm currently picking them up with a licked finger and threading them onto the wire from there. Have dropped a couple and lost them. How do you experts handle them?

I do exactly the same. I hear them ping onto my bedroom floor and can never find the blumming things! I'd like some tips too

sparklygirl71

Taypier wrote: »

I do exactly the same. I hear them ping onto my bedroom floor and can never find the blumming things! I'd like some tips too

If you havent already got one, i would strongly recommend a bead board, hopefully when you drop a few you can catch them in one of the compartments. My bead board is very well used, infact I couldnt do without it now.

Also thistledome, I would recommend trying out some magazines first rather then books. Theres some great ones out there - i currently subscribe to the US bead and button magazine as theres lots of different types of jewellery projects including seed bead work. Also the UK bead magazine is pretty good too - they also run beadTV which for some types of projects you can watch for free, its a great way to get inspiration going too!

karren

Taypier wrote: »

I do exactly the same. I hear them ping onto my bedroom floor and can never find the blumming things! I'd like some tips too

My dog munches and beads that ping!!! and the sod eats any jewellery left around, its so not funny as she must think mmmmm lunch when i go to make jewellery so i now lock her in the kitchen when i work! but my daughter has lost a few nice pieces to the muncher!