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These easy wire wrapped beads make great spacers with more antique trade beads or more organic gemstone beads. Being sort of a newcomer to wire work and wire jewelry-making, I have always admired those folks who can take a piece of wire and bend it (like magic!) to transform it into a bead or jewelry...
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This bright and cheerful wire-wrapping, wire-coiling teardrop earring project was designed by Lindsay Burke for Fusion Beads. With the upcoming holiday season, these would look great for all those office parties and family get-togethers on your busy calendar! Now, I'm no wire wrapping or wire jewelry...
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When I was in high school, I got bit by the jewelry-making bug. I had been experimenting with making jewelry from beads, paper, fibers, buttons and anything else I could get my hands on. A friend of mine was doing a lot of wire-wrapping with polished rocks and stones, and her pieces looked so beautiful...
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Sep 18, 2011
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My "Hypnotize Me" bead embroidered pendant uses wire wrapped dangles as fringe. How easy is this? Take a couple of beads and string them on a head pin. Make a wrapped loop, and you've got one of the most versatile components for jewelry making and beading projects that you can imagine....
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Jul 31, 2011
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Beading Daily is three years old this week. In this short time, we have grown to more than 220,236 members from nearly every country in the world. That's certainly something to shout about! Here at Interweave, we blew some party horns, ate cupcakes, and laughed a lot to celebrate the fact that Beading...
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Aug 2, 2010
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As many of you Beading Daily readers know, I recently came clean on the fact that I'd never done seed beading. Shortly after my confession, I had a lovely seed-bead soiree with my peeps, so my secret is no longer a secret. In fact, it's turned into a full-blown addiction. I was warned, teased...
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New materials, diverse style Inspiration comes from many places, and sometimes the same sources inspire you in a surprising new way. Recently, I was once again admiring the work in Ancient Modern , Ronna Sarvas Weltman’s polymer clay and wire book, and I found myself bathed in a glorious flood...
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Hook and eye clasp is hardware chic! Rubber tubing called “spline” is one of my favorite hardware store materials. Commonly used to press around a screen door panel, it’s cheap, easy to cut, comes in a few gauges and shades of gray or black, and (most important) is hollow–perfect...
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Nov 6, 2009
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Simple Earrings, Simple Pleasures Remember when you first got your ears pierced and you had to wear a simple post earring for a few weeks while they healed? Geez, those weeks seemed interminable. That curious ritual of putting holes in your earlobes was surely a rite of passage. It was either a trip...
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Michelle Mach
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Jul 24, 2009
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A Lifetime Supply of Wire When I started working with wire, my local bead shop talked me into a 20-foot spool of silver craft wire for practicing wrapped loops. I left there convinced that I had bought a "lifetime" supply of wire. It took me forever to make a single wrapped loop--I was always...
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Today's guest Connie Fox has been making jewelry for over 10 years. She teaches at major jewelry events including Bead Fest Wire and is a frequent contributor to Jewelry Artist and Step by Step Beads . Connie writes the "Wire Workshop" column in every issue of Step by Step Wire Jewelry...
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Inspired by YOU Some days (OK, most days) you amaze me! In the Reader Showcase area of the forums, I was blown away by Australian member Huan Pham who created the beautiful wireworked seahorse pictured here. Isn't it amazing? View the larger photo in the forums if you want to be impressed by his...
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Jan 23, 2009
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A Fool for Tools My friend Jan recently dragged me to a knitting class. Of course, I knew that we'd need to buy yarn and needles (I do work for Interweave , after all!), but I was suprised to learn that we needed more than two needles, plus a stitch holder and darning needle. (And a crochet hook...
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Michelle Mach
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Dec 19, 2008
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Your Favorite Gift The most unusual beading gift I've ever received was a silver hoop earring that had been run over by a car. The owner of the earring was devestated--she had purchased the earrings on a special vacation and they were very sentimental. After hanging onto them for several years, she...
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Dec 12, 2008
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What Makes a Piece of Jewelry a "Winter" Design? • Is it jewelry type? I hardly ever create bracelets for winter because I know they'll just be buried under miles of sweaters and jackets. • Is it color? I wear many of my necklaces year round, but there are a few like my Reveille...
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Nov 7, 2008
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