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Halloween? It is a great time for making jewelry. Halloween is a chance to be playful and create themed DIY holiday jewelry designs. You do not have to take yourself seriously. Craft a cute little cobweb. Add glam to your pirate gear. Sneak a little flair into your office attire. Or think out of the box and use the Queen of Hearts as part of your earring set.…
What a phenomenal week of jewelry making videos! We have some delightful jewelry project ideas for you. We designed bracelets that use jump rings in a clever way. We crafted gorgeous pendants and lariats. We made some stunning earrings. And we had fun opening mystery jewelry Design Kits. These videos are educational and fun. You are going to love them! They are almost…
Margie Deeb revisits a jewelry making trap. Dark metallic iris beads are pretty amazing. They are full of highlights and colors. They are little rainbow planets with hot spots, oil slicked surfaces, and a base color. But if they are overused, they can be drab and lifeless. They can even seem reptilian and alien. Margie sees them used as a crutch quite often. Beaders will sometimes settle for th…
It is design kit day at
Soft Flex Company. We are so excited! Our design kits are themed jewelry making kits. Each kit is a mystery until we reveal the contents (a month after initially offering it). Last month we offered our Unicorn Sparkles Design Kit. Today we are going to take a look at some finished jewelry designs from that kit. Let's see what Soft Flex Company staf…
What a fantastic day to celebrate beaded art. We think jewelry and beadwork enriches the world with culture and folklore. Beads have been
intertwined with the human experience for ages. Beads are a symbol of behavioral modernity - they note a transition when early humans left a life of pure survival and embraced culture and modern thought. They are truly transcendent. Beads have elevated us. B…
My goodness. Halloween is only a month away. It is time to scare up some DIY Halloween costume and Halloween
jewelry ideas. We have some frightful suggestions. We have a bunch of great jewelry making videos this week. One Halloween video and a mixed bag of other treats. We look at jewelry making kits, our big Closeout Sale, and a fun wire wrapping episode of Conversa…