Take A Trip Down Turquoise Street - Meet Designer Brittany Chavers

Take A Trip Down Turquoise Street - Meet Designer Brittany Chavers

A thoughtful present from grandma transformed young Brittany Chavers' life. One of her first memories is getting a deluxe kit full of beads. She embraced the craft and spent hours stringing and restringing jewelry. This little gift turned into a lifelong obsession with crafting, being creative, and collecting beads. Every bead whispers a story to Brittany. Every shape and every color is a song…
Spotlight On Our VIB Jewelry Making Community: Designer Janet Boyer

Spotlight On Our VIB Jewelry Making Community: Designer Janet Boyer

Our VIB jewelry making community is full of creative crafters and uncommon artists. Talented jewelry designers from all over the world post their creations daily. It is an exciting hub of inspirational media and educational messages. Today, we are putting the spotlight on one designer, Janet Boyer. Janet is a maker of many talents. She has been an interior decorator, a book reviewer, award winn…
9 Easy Mistakes To Avoid When Making Handmade Jewelry

9 Easy Mistakes To Avoid When Making Handmade Jewelry

You should be making gallery quality jewelry. What is holding you back? We are looking at nine things that will help make you a better beader. Learn how to make a secure necklace that will never break. Learn how to enhance your designs with color and components. Learn the difference between generic beading products and professional jewelry making supplies. We have a jewelry demon…
Find Creative Inspiration And Motivation In Our Joyful Beading Challenges

Find Creative Inspiration And Motivation In Our Joyful Beading Challenges

Join us for Joyful Beading! Our daily Joyful challenges are designed to lift your mood and ignite your creative spirit. Every Joyful event we kick off is a celebration of handmade jewelry. If you are feeling blue or just in a creative slump, Joyful inspiration will fuel your imagination and help you become a better beader. We are going to share some Joyful creations from our VIB community. W…
Halloween Is Almost Here, We Have Some Jewelry Making Ideas To Put You In The Spirit

Halloween Is Almost Here, We Have Some Jewelry Making Ideas To Put You In The Spirit

Halloween will be here before you know it! Let's look some exciting jewelry making ideas for the most spooktacular day of the year! Melissa J. Lee gave us some wonderful jewelry and craft ideas. She uses traditional Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos icons - skull pendants, evil eye beads, and cobwebs. She also plays with unexpected colors, like floral pink and bright yellow. She has some playf…
Daily Joyful Beading Challenges For Coronavirus Quarantine

Daily Joyful Beading Challenges For Coronavirus Quarantine

Stay joyful and blissfully bead along with us! We are living in very unusual times. Shelter-in-place and isolation rules means that many of us are facing the coronavirus alone and without our peers to talk to and keep our minds at work. Quarantine does not have to be boring! This is a great time to beautify your world and light your passion to create. We are posting daily 'Joyful Beading'…