Feel like some inspiration for your jewellery making? Mix it up a bit with some fabulous fabrics and fibers! This is a review about the book Felt, Fabric and Fiber Jewelry by Sherri Haab. I bought this book originally as I was looking for information on making felt beads. I was really happy to also find some […]
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Bead Along With Off The Beaded Path: Seed Bead Projects
Are you up for a seed bead project challenge? Join in with this fabulous Bead Along project which starts on 1st April 2013. All you need to take part is the book “Metallic Seed Bead Splendor” by Nancy Zellers, some beading needles and a large stash of seed beads! The Bead Along is hosted by Kelly […]
How to make earwires
Drat. You’ve sat down to make those fabulous earrings for your friend’s birthday pressie and found you’ve run out of earwires! You could just order some more and it’ll probably take a day or two to arrive. Or you could just make some in less than two minutes and get cracking on the earring project […]
5 Ways To Sell Your Crafts
Whatever your craft is, you’re bound to be passionate about it. I’m sure that like mine, your craft products are made with the utmost care and precision! I enjoy lots of different crafts but my favourite has got to be beadwork. I find stringing hundreds of little sparkly beads together to make a bracelet or necklace so […]
How To Make Felt: Complete Feltmaking Book Review
Whenever I have a clear out at home, I find there are some of my possessions that safely remain from year to year, which I never get tired of. These possessions are mainly my crafts stash and craft books. Because, no matter what’s going on in my life, I always come back to crafts! Today […]
How to make earrings: easy project tutorial
If you’re new to beading, why not try this easy beading earring project? If you’ve seen or handled a pair of jewellery pliers before, this project should take you around 10 minutes! If not, allow half an hour! For this project, you’ll need: 2 x silver plated fish hook earring wires 2 x silver plated […]
Where To Buy Swarovski Crystal Beads
In 1892 Daniel Swarovski invented a precise crystal cutting machine which, coupled with a secret formula, allowed him to produce high quality lead glass gems. Such gems are extremely sparkly and brighten up any jewellery piece, which is why I like to use them in many of my projects! Swarovski crystal beads can be quite […]
Mother’s Day Handmade Gift: Earring Project
These lovely delicate earrings are perfect for a Mother’s Day handmade gift and can be made up fairly quickly using a right angle weave beading technique. Step 1 Gather your ingredients together! For this project you will need the following: Size 10 beading needle Nymo beading thread (cream, white or beige work well for this […]
Making your own cards
How often have you shopped for a birthday card and found it’s taken you a good half hour to pick one from the rack and even then it’s not really quite right for the person you had in mind? It’s happened to me more times than I can count. What’s more, getting a great card […]
Handmade gifts for kids
Sometimes, it can be difficult to know what sort of gift to get for that special little person in your life. Especially in today’s world, where technology is on tap and just about every seven year old that I know has a ‘LeapPad’! However, I’ve made a few gifts to order for children over the […]
