by Gail DeLuca | Jul 20, 2017 | Products & Tools We Love (& How to Use Them), Projects & Cool Ideas, Tips
Essential oils have gotten incredibly popular over the last few years. People have taken to carrying certain mixtures with them; some even wearing particular scents on their person throughout the day. Oils can be used to help soothe headaches, to ease anxiety, or just...
by Gail DeLuca | Dec 4, 2014 | Miscellaneous Musings, Products & Tools We Love (& How to Use Them), Projects & Cool Ideas
Christmas Eve is officially twenty days away. Hanukkah is twelve days away. The winter solstice is seventeen days away. The holidays are sneaking up on us fast! Are you in need of quick, inexpensive gifts that don’t smell like strawberry-kiwi or come from the $5...
by Gail DeLuca | Oct 9, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros, Products & Tools We Love (& How to Use Them), Projects & Cool Ideas
Check your holes! Any bead can get clogged with debris – but when you’re working with two holes, and the first hole is clear, you may do a lot of stitching before you get to use the second hole in a two-hole bead. And if it’s clogged? Frog stitch...
by Gail DeLuca | Oct 1, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros, Miscellaneous Musings, Projects & Cool Ideas
The project: I completed this piece as a bracelet using the Bead Spinner and a whole lot of seed beads. It wasn’t until I had tied and trimmed the many strands that I realized it was too long to be a bracelet. Normally I have no problem ripping a piece apart...
by Gail DeLuca | Jul 15, 2014 | Projects & Cool Ideas
We’ve been making dragonfly earrings for years using Tierracast’s awesome dragonfly wing beads. We even had kits for them way back in the day. We’ve since phased those out, but the beads are still cool! So here we are with another take on the...
by Gail DeLuca | Jun 20, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros, Projects & Cool Ideas
Some of my favorite things to do are make super simple, super quick pieces of jewelry – for gifts, to match a certain outfit, or just plain because. What I’ve found is that these simple pieces are often the most versatile pieces of jewelry that I make. 10-20...
