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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…