Halloween is almost here and we are planning our jewelry and costumes. We love to have a skele-ton of fun! Join us for some spirited beading parties and ghoulishly good times as the haunted holiday approaches. This week, we previewed our upcoming Trick or Treat jewelry making party with Jesse James Beads. We added some fiendish beads to our shelves. And we raised the dead with some exciting beading parties. Let us put a spell on you!
After a very busy Customer Appreciation Week, you would think we would hide from the sun for awhile. But our creative jewelry designers have the energy of the undead. Kristen started the week with an earring tutorial. Learn how to make beaded drop earrings with wire wrapped seed beads. Sarah James joined us from Jesse James Beads. We unboxed Trick or Treat jewelry kits and discussed the upcoming Halloween party. We threw a beading party with Joyce Trowbridge from Just Bead It. During CAW, Joyce showed us how to cage cabochons with beading wire. This time, she showed us how to cage various sized beads. The way she uses beading wire to mimic a wire wrapping technique is so magical! On Thursday, we had our Takeover Day at the Great Bead Extravaganza Facebook Group. Kristen made some wire wrapped spider webs and Sara created a cute ghost with Craft Wire and a WigJig jig board.
We also visited Kay Goss, from Star's Beads, and checked out her Foxy Lady Design Kit (Sold Out) unboxing. Aleshia Beadifulnights unboxed our Peace and Love Design Kit and gave us a jewelry tutorial. Peace and Love is still available - grab one of these groovy kits! Finally, we checked out two videos from Rosanna Brafford, she made a button bracelet and earrings, with our Foxy Lady kit, that we loved!
Halloween Holiday Ceramic Beads For Playful Jewelry Making
Halloween is here! The most haunted holiday is a howl to celebrate. Add some ghosts and goblins to your jewelry collection!
These beads are sold individually. Mix and match!
These adorable ceramic beads are perfect for the spooky season! These delightfully ghoulish beads are the perfect option for holiday crafts. Involve the little ones and create a chilling collection of ghostly jewelry. Give the Halloween lovers in your life the gift of jewelry!
These ceramic beads have been produced for over 20 years near the ancient city of Cusco, Peru by the Romero family business. The Romeros have dedicated themselves to artisan quality artistic and ornamental ceramics. They have also explored a fun side with their collection of Teeny Tiny beads. They have created thousands of stunning designs and playful bead mixes. Add some exciting ceramics to your beading supplies.
Warning: This product may contain lead and is not intended for sale or use by children 12 years of age or younger.
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Follow along on our Joyful Beading road map. Each day, we begin a new jewelry project. For instance, September 30th is 'Make Halloween Jewelry'. On that day, every project that is Halloween holiday themed, will be entered to win a $10 credit. Projects must be posted to our VIB group before midnight PST, on that date. If you post a kit project on a different date and it is not applicable to that date's project, you will not be entered to win. Make sure every project you post has this hashtag - #joyfulbeading. If you do not include the hashtag, we may overlook your entry.
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How To Make Beaded Drop Earrings With Wire Wrapped Seed Beads
Kristen hosted or sat in a great number of our Customer Appreciation Week videos last week. You would think she needed a couple of days off, but this artist is always ready for some Free Spirit Beading! This episode she showed us how to make earrings with seed beads and Craft Wire. This is a wire wrapping demonstration that even a beginner can grasp.
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Beads To Live By
Beads from Autumn Dreaming
Bead Mix
Soft Flex Silver Plated
Craft Wire, 22ga
Head Pins
Nylon Jaw Pliers
Round Nose Pliers
Flat Nose Pliers
Chain Nose Pliers
Cutters
Ear Wires
Trick or Treat Jewelry Making Party Preview With Jesse James Beads
Teamwork makes the scream work! We love collaborating with Sarah James from Jesse James Beads. We have had beading parties in the past that were amazing. Pool Parties, Trick or Treat, and even Galentine's Day jubilees. Next month, on October 7th and 8th, we are having another spooky Halloween get together.
Trick or Treat Jewelry Making Party Kit 2022
4 projects, 4 designers, 2 nights, 1 fun filled online event! Join us October 7th and 8th! Grab the supply kit here and get the bead kit from Jesse James Beads.
Fearless maker, have you returned? Did the delights of last Halloween not slake your thirst for all things creeping and crawling? We welcome you! The ghouls are all here! Soft Flex Company and Jesse James Beads are haunting your hallways with another spirited set of shows. Jesse James Beads is offering the sweetest selection of spooky beads you have ever laid your bony fingers on. Soft Flex Company has an uncanny collection of spectral beading supplies (findings and wire). Our eerie 2-night event runs October 7th and 8th with 4 designers offering their best tips, tricks and projects. Decompose and decompress as we show you how to design an enchanted piece of jewelry that will make the whole graveyard jealous. If you have purchased a kit from each company, you will be granted exclusive access to an after event full of lively apparitions and more bead talk. We welcome all mortals and eager souls. Join us for a fiendish time!
Order early so you have your kit on hand for the show! If you grab a kit from each company, you will be welcome to join our wine party on Zoom, following the first show.
Important Dates:
10/7 Friday 4-6pm PT - Trick-or-Treat Party Classes, Sara Oehler and Brittany Chavers
10/7 Friday 6-7 PT - Trick-or-Treat Wine Tasting on Zoom
10/8 Saturday 11am-1pm PT - Trick-or-Treat Party Classes, Danielle Wickes and Jem Hawkes
Note: This is a supply kit for a special event. This kit does not contain beads. Please be sure to purchase the matching bead kit from Jesse James Beads to play along!
Live Beading Party With Joyce Trowbridge Of Just Bead It
Our friend Joyce Trowbridge is the owner of Just Bead It. She is an amazing jewelry designer and always seems to have an inventive and clever idea that stops us in our tracks. When she unveiled her Customer Appreciation Week kit, we were blown away with the jewelry making technique inside. Joyce showed us how to cage a cabochon with Soft Flex Beading Wire - instead of Craft Wire. After decades of manufacturing the highest quality Beading Wire on the market, we were blown away that she was teaching us a new trick!
If you would like to try this amazing jewelry technique yourself, make sure you grab one of Joyce's few remaining kits.
Moon Dreams Pendant and Necklace Kit
TGBE Takeover! Coffee & Craft Wire With Sara Oehler and Kristen Fagan
Nothing on earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night ~ Steve Almond
We love Halloween. The holiday is as loaded with nostalgia and memories as Christmas. Two opposite sided holidays bookend such a wonderful season of joyful celebration and evoke the most beautiful moments of being a kid. Every October we love to explore the themes of Halloween that make it such a memorable event. We love to make spooky jewelry and craft haunted beaded keepsakes. We love to share our ghostly charms and string beads with our children.
Check out our new Halloween category for a spooky collection of beautiful beads. You are sure to find some scary beads that will bewitch your friends and family.
Star's Beads: Unboxing The Foxy Lady Design Kit & Warehouse Surprises
Aleshia Beadifulnights: Peace And Love Kit Opening & Tutorial
In Rose's Garden: Making A Button Bracelet With The Foxy Lady Kit
In Rose's Garden: Making Earrings Using The Foxy Lady Design Kit
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Blog contributor Thomas Soles loves Jazz Age writers and crunchy french fries. His favorite gemstones are Lapis and Pietersite. His favorite hobby is day dreaming. And his favorite mustache is Freddie Mercury's. As you can see, he has a healthy (or possibly unhealthy) sense of humor. You can write to him at Thomas@SoftFlexCompany.com