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How To Make a Beaded Kumihimo Bracelet with Seed Beads
Using the Miyuki Long Magatama seed beads, you can create this beautiful Kumihimo snake like bracelet. It is made exactly the same as the beaded Kumihimo with Swarovski or the round Miyuki seed beads. Emily Kersh In House Designer HelpFul Links Simple 8 Kumihimo Braiding Technique
Don’t let obstacles such as time get in your way of making jewellery
Last month we introduced you to The Bead Shop’s new feature on how to achieve your jewellery-related goals for 2013. This week we look at how you can stick to these goals. It is easy for us to set ourselves goals such as “Create exciting new necklace designs” but when we are asked “How will you know when you’ve reached … Continue reading
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‘Design and make 5 new items of jewellery this month’
Here at The Bead Shop we are always looking to find new ways to inspire you with your jewellery making, whether if it’s creating new jewellery ideas or keeping you up to date with the News & Trends. That’s why we would like to share with you some ideas for setting targets and keeping goals. If you ever find yourself … Continue reading
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Sparkle with statement jewellery in 2013
Want to start the New Year by glamming up your fashion style? Statement jewellery is a great way to do this. Statement jewellery pieces can add the finishing touch to an outfit and ensure you will gain admiring glances. With so many different jewellery items to choose from it can be difficult to make the right decision and you can … Continue reading
How to realise your New Year jewellery resolutions
As we step into 2013 and New Year resolutions are in abundance, we have been thinking about our own resolutions. Aside from the usual health-related resolutions, we have been focussing on our jewellery-related goals for the coming year and we are sure that many of you have too. Often the problem with sticking to resolutions is not visualising your … Continue reading
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Alice In Wonderland Cameo Necklace and Bangle’s
This super cool Alice in Wonderland cameo cluster necklace is made using our brand new Beadsmith Collage Sheets. We’ve been really excited about these as we’ve been able to try them out with some of our new glue’s and glazes and we think they’re a really cool addition of any charm bracelet or necklace. The collage sheets come in several … Continue reading
Take on the ‘make do & mend’ attitude
The recession has hit Britain but The Bead Shop in Manchester has seen even more customers come through their doors, now that people are returning to the ‘make do and mend’ attitude, something The Bead Shop is a huge fan of. Harvey Kersh, who founded The Bead Shop with his late wife in 1993, believes small, creative businesses work well … Continue reading
Beadalon Beading Wire: The right wire for the job in hand
Beadalon beading wire, from the USA, is the ideal flexible stringing medium for your beading creations. Produced in a choice of three thicknesses: 49 strand, 19 strand, and 7 strand, Beadalon beading wire will help you to create fabulous beaded jewellery which looks and displays exactly how you intend it to. Beadalon wire is specially formulated using a series of … Continue reading
Colour me happy, colour me sad
Because we see colours everywhere we use them to describe everyday things. We can visualise what is meant by post-box red, sky blue, or sunshine yellow, and we associate colours with feelings and moods. Colours do affect our moods: seeing someone wearing black beaded jewellery might make us feel sad, as it has long been associated with bereavement and mourning … Continue reading
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Visual Branding Will Help Sell Your Jewellery
The best advice is to “Keep It Simple” Regardless of how you choose to sell your handmade jewellery in the UK or worldwide, you will need to advertise what you make in some way, so some time spent in creating an image for yourself will be a benefit. Using a computer graphics program it is fairly simple to create … Continue reading
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