3 Ideas For Handmade Holiday Gifts Using Gemstone Beads To Make Jewelry - Perfect For The Essential Worker In Your Life

3 Ideas For Handmade Holiday Gifts Using Gemstone Beads To Make Jewelry - Perfect For The Essential Worker In Your Life

3 Ideas For Handmade Holiday Gifts Using Gemstone Beads To Make Jewelry - Perfect For The Essential Worker In Your Life I love to make gifts. I was the kid that sewed a small stocking for every member in my extended family (which you realize is a lot when your Mother has 9 brothers and sisters and you have 18 first cousins). I was the teenager that would macramé bracelets in colorful thre…
Weekly Video Recap: 'Tis The Season For Christmas Crafts And Holiday Jewelry

Weekly Video Recap: 'Tis The Season For Christmas Crafts And Holiday Jewelry

Ho! Ho! Ho! The holidays are here! We have some great jewelry making videos for you this week. We had a holiday party with friends and traded beading kits. We have instructive videos on how to make necklaces and earrings with beading wire. We made a Christmas angel that can be used as a suncatcher or ornament. Adorn your holiday house with beads! Kristen started the week off with…
Learn How To Make A DIY Lariat Necklace

Learn How To Make A DIY Lariat Necklace

Would you like to learn how to make a beaded lariat necklace? If you are a beginner, this fun jewelry style is a great way to master  new techniques and learn how to break the rules. Lariats are, basically, long necklaces that do not require a clasp to finish. Fundamentally, lariats are a single length of beaded cord, beading wire, or chain. They are not closed into a loop…
Weekly Video Recap: Give The Gift Of Handmade Jewelry - Here Are 4 Unique Design Ideas

Weekly Video Recap: Give The Gift Of Handmade Jewelry - Here Are 4 Unique Design Ideas

Why settle with store bought jewelry when you can make your own? Give the give of handcrafted necklaces this year.  Handmade crafts and jewelry are created with love and make for instantly memorable moments. Money cannot buy the care and compassion DIY jewelry exudes. We have three timeless designs in this recap (and a teaser for a fourth). These instructive videos are great for beg…
Finished Jewelry Designs From Our Fall Masterpiece Design Kit

Finished Jewelry Designs From Our Fall Masterpiece Design Kit

Oh my goodness - it's Kit Day! If you are like us, you look forward to this day all month. Kit Day is a Soft Flex holiday. It is the day we launch our newest mystery beading kit. We unbox our previous kit, live, and make jewelry with our friends. And we take a look at last month's kit creations. Kit Day is a day full innovative design and creative exuberance. You cannot help but get i…
Weekly Video Recap: Rattan Wicker Jewelry And A Live Beading Party With Joyce From Just Bead It

Weekly Video Recap: Rattan Wicker Jewelry And A Live Beading Party With Joyce From Just Bead It

Have you recovered from the  Great Bead Extravaganza? That was such an amazing journey. Whether you marathoned all of the live jewelry making classes or just caught some here and there, it was such an awesome variety of beading techniques and incredible finished jewelry. This week, we moved forward with more beading fun. We made some modern Boho styled jewelry for fall. We held a&nb…