Bead Jewelry

Now that flea market and yard sale season is here I’m starting to hunt around for deals forgotten pieces of older bead jewelry. Instead of just harvesting the beads from some of these jewelry pieces and creating completely new bead necklaces and bracelets this year I hope to try something a little different.

Don’t break up that old jewelry, simply freshen it up to make new jewelry creations!The most expensive part of creating bead …

I attended an Earth Day conference yesterday and one of the many things that kept being emphasized is our need to use more renewable resources, which are natural resources that can be created or sustained as fast as they are used. If, for example you plant a tree for every one you cut down then trees are renewable resources. A better idea might be to plant two or three trees because the time it takes for a tree to grow is definitely a big factor! A great example of a renewable resources that is being used more …

I checked out the elegant and unique jewelry over at KKPW Designs after designer Shannon Culmo left a short comment on one of my earlier posts about how to buy wholesale beads. I visited her KKPW Designs website and was instantly amazed at the many different unique and elegant jewelry pieces she makes and sells. Many of her pieces are put together using traditional beading skills, but she combines silver other metals and wire work and gemstones in a very original and modern way! All …

There are lots of great bead jewelry sites out there. Some have a bunch of free beading patterns, some feature bead tutorials and instructions, some sell lots of beading kits and books and some have a regular beading blog filled with tips and archived bead jewelry posts. Not many sites have all of that and much more, but the Beading Daily site manages to offer all that at more, all while offering a daily blog post that you can receive for free in your email!…

At some point most serious bead jewelry artists begin to take a good hard look at the money they’re making with their jewelry and comparing it to their expenses and quickly realize that the one item the most money is spent on is the beads themselves. The same is true, of course, for artists who make their own beads whether it be out of glass or silver clay or some sort of polymer or even paper! The raw materials used to make the jewelry are often the most expensive part of any jewelry making business. This …