Meet Soft Flex Company And SilverSilk Staff At The Whole Bead Show In Oakland

Meet Soft Flex Company And SilverSilk Staff At The Whole Bead Show In Oakland

Soft Flex Company is returning to Oakland next week. If you live in the area or are planning a vacation, you should visit us at this fun bead show, we will be with SilverSilk at booth 213! Oakland is a great place to visit in November. Historically, the Bay Area Bead Extravaganza ran during November. It was a strongly attended and incredibly diverse bead show full of in…
Weekly Video Recap: Pumpkin Jewelry, Halloween Crafts, And Christmas Spiders

Weekly Video Recap: Pumpkin Jewelry, Halloween Crafts, And Christmas Spiders

Did you have a spooky scary Halloween? We spent the week  designing jewelry to make our holiday stylish and supernatural. We love making this ghostly day gorgeous. If you like Halloween as much as we do, you are going to love these ghoulish jewelry making videos. We also have a fun Christmas Spider. Add a little fright to your Feliz Navidad! Check out our latest blog, so many w…
Make Your Own Christmas Spiders with Soft Flex Craft Wire and Beads

Make Your Own Christmas Spiders with Soft Flex Craft Wire and Beads

Spiders! These eight legged creatures are so fun to make. They may make you think of Halloween, but these kooky little guys play an important role in another holiday, Christmas! Want to learn how to make some beaded Christmas spiders? You are going to love this simple beading project!While Americans don't typically include spiders in their canon of Christmas creatures, the arachnids are yuletide m…
7 Jewelry and Craft Ideas You Can Make from One Bead Strand

7 Jewelry and Craft Ideas You Can Make from One Bead Strand

From an elegant lariat necklace to wire wrapped spiders to pumpkin earrings and more, this is one very versatile mixed bead strand! Sara, James and I have all had a blast creating with our custom Great Pumpkin Bead Strand made exclusively for Soft Flex Company by Jesse James Beads. We have a handful of strands left and just put them on sale for 30% off, so it's a fittin…
Spiders! Spiders! Easy Craft Wire Halloween Spiders!

Spiders! Spiders! Easy Craft Wire Halloween Spiders!

Behold! My  Halloween hounds, spiders have invaded the Soft Flex Company! Beautiful, bulbous and glittering spiders. These cute little creepy crawlies appeared after James, our Craft Wire guru, created one for his YouTube series, Conversations in Wire. These deliciously wicked creatures can be crafted with just a spool of Soft Flex Craft Wire and some beads. Begin you…
Weekly Video Recap: Holiday Crafts, Jig Board Projects, And A Lovely Lariat

Weekly Video Recap: Holiday Crafts, Jig Board Projects, And A Lovely Lariat

We had another exciting week of  jewelry making videos. We hope you were able to join us live. But if you were not, don't fret, you can catch up! We made some holiday crafts that would look great for Christmas or Halloween. We showed how to make jewelry components with WigJig wire jig boards. And we checked out a lovely lariat from SilverSilk. So many great tips and s…