10 Questions Jewelry Designers Ask About Jewelry Making

10 Questions Jewelry Designers Ask About Jewelry Making

Why is your necklace breaking? You have all of the best tools and beading supplies in your beading toolkit, but your designs are coming back from your customers broken. What is going on? What is the best beading wire? What is the difference between Soft Flex wire and other beading threads? Will this seed bead fit on my wire? Today we answer ten customer queries we found on A…
Holiday Projects And Design Tips Featuring Soft Touch Beading Wire

Holiday Projects And Design Tips Featuring Soft Touch Beading Wire

Soft Touch Beading Wire is our premium beading wire. If you have never felt the difference between Soft Touch and other beading wire brands, you should take a trip to your local bead store and see how different wires drape and move in your fingers. Let the wire do the talking. We don’t always consider drape as a factor when designing a necklace, but it is every bit as important as the color…
Visit Our Gallery In Sonoma

Visit Our Gallery In Sonoma

You should come visit our gallery! We love to meet new beaders and professional jewelry makers. It is a great time to come visit us and see our collection of gemstones and beads. We also carry jewelry tools and supplies. You can find everything you need to design your next necklace or refill your beading tool  kit. Our Sonoma Gallery is open by appointment only. We welco…
FREE Beading Project Idea: Beading Wire and Plazko Chain Earrings

FREE Beading Project Idea: Beading Wire and Plazko Chain Earrings

We love earrings. Earrings are probably the most versatile piece of jewelry you can have in your wardrobe. Earrings can match necklaces or they can stand on their own merits. They can enhance an outfit or draw attention from an outfit. They can be slender dangles. They can be chunky affairs. Earrings can be a discrete post or a monster hoop. One fantastic thing about stringing your own jewel…
Jewelry Making With Beads | LEARN A New CRAFT With Jewelry Books

Jewelry Making With Beads | LEARN A New CRAFT With Jewelry Books

Have you purchased your first jewelry making book yet? I bet the answer is "Yes." You may already have several! As you know, books can play a huge part in what you learn about making jewelry. The challenge lies in finding the right book. A brief look into the number of books that are on the market today is astounding. Just tap into any major book website and type in the words "Jewelry Making". If…
Reduce, Reuse, RESTYLE | EASY Ways To Recycle Jewelry

Reduce, Reuse, RESTYLE | EASY Ways To Recycle Jewelry

Have you ever wondered how you could reduce your environmental impact? Recycling is a great way to lessen the weight of our footsteps. We think it should be fun. We think  stringing beads can be part of the way we reduce, reuse, and recycle. We look at ways to think outside of the box and create jewelry with the very things we normally consider trash. Bottle caps can be beautiful focal beads.…