by Gail DeLuca | Oct 30, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros
If you make jewelry, you will be asked to do a repair. It happens. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, rest assured that it will. Sometimes it’s as simple as restringing an inexpensive bracelet on elastic. Sometimes it’s in-depth, a multi-strand...
by Gail DeLuca | Sep 17, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros, Products & Tools We Love (& How to Use Them)
or Why, after 10 years of shunning them for bracelet designs, I am now welcoming them back onto my arms. I have been making jewelry for well over 10 years now. Beautiful, time consuming designs, with those little tiny seed beads, each one stitched into place by hand....
by Gail DeLuca | Aug 14, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros
Getting into beading as a craft and getting to the point where you feel comfortable and confident in calling yourself a ‘beader’ can be quite the process. Beading and jewelry-making is a whole world unto itself, full of its own celebrities, history, lingo, and...
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 | May 21, 2014 | Design Techniques & Tips for Pros, Events, New Class Just Added
08/17/2014 – 08/17/2014 Map and Directions | Register Description: Bead finishes can be tricky and frustrating. Why does one bead appear green in the tube, blue when I place it on the table, and gold when I string it? Why does one bead sparkle and the same...
