Beads Baubles & Jewels: Learn How To Make Nealay Patel's Branching Out Necklace

Beads Baubles & Jewels: Learn How To Make Nealay Patel's Branching Out Necklace

Beads Baubles and Jewels is a jewelry making show on public television. Host  Katie Hacker interviews jewelry designers and industry talent. She features segments teaching the viewers how to make their own jewelry at home. The step by step instructions are fun to watch and easy to follow along. Soft Flex beading guru, Sara Oehler, was featured on the first and fourth episodes of the cur…
3 FESTIVE Thanksgiving Beading Project Ideas

3 FESTIVE Thanksgiving Beading Project Ideas

Thanksgiving is still a couple weeks away. Now is the perfect time to gather your jewelry making supplies and have some fun. Let’s learn how to make some lovely beading project ideas for the holiday. We have some clever designs for the beginner beaders and the seasoned stringers. This holiday is ripe with delicious colors. Rich black, orange and cream. Rustic browns dance with war…
Choose The Best BEADING WIRE For Every Jewelry Design

Choose The Best BEADING WIRE For Every Jewelry Design

Do you know what the best beading wire is for that bracelet you want to string? Do you know why Soft Flex carries so many colors of wire? Are you still in the dark about beading wire? Read on and get all of the answers! Let’s start with beading wire companies. Which is the best one? There are so many options. We think you should choose the wire that speaks to you. Go to a bea…
3 Beaded Halloween Jewelry Project Ideas | Spooky Jewelry

3 Beaded Halloween Jewelry Project Ideas | Spooky Jewelry

Oh boy do we have a treat for you! Halloween is right around the corner.Trick or Treaters and ghouls will be walking the streets. You need a talisman to keep the scary spirits away! Today we have lots of great jewelry ideas. You will learn how to make bracelets, pendants, necklaces, and earrings.  First, we have a video for you. Sara discusses how to make some b…
Live Design Challenge Replay With Harvest Moon Beading Kit

Live Design Challenge Replay With Harvest Moon Beading Kit

Sara’s latest live design challenge features our Harvest Moon beading kit. Every month we organize a kit featuring beads and jewelry making supplies. The kits are themed and each item in it is hand selected. The previous kit celebrated the enchanting mystery of the ocean: Mermaid’s Lagoon. A month after the kit hits our shelves, Sara opens one and designs jewelry with th…
DIY Men's BRACELETS & NECKLACES | Men's Jewelry

DIY Men's BRACELETS & NECKLACES | Men's Jewelry

Let's look at men's jewelry. Men's bracelets and necklaces never get a lot of love. Men's beaded jewelry tends to be less flashy and less fun than an elaborate multi-stranded necklace that would find a home on a woman's neck. The color options for His jewelry can be more muted and earthy than Her jewelry. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun designing a necklace for the fellow in y…