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Jewelry & Beading

Archive for October 2007

October 31st, 2007

Pumpkin Head Necklace

Here’s one more for the road. This is a fun project from the Michael’s craft store web site. It combines felt and a bell to create this charm you can dangle from  the center of a necklace cord.  I bet you could make this smaller and make a few to use as earrings as well: […]

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October 30th, 2007

Beaded Halloween Card

You don’t have t just make jewelry for the holidays - though there’s nothing wrong with that! You can use your beading skills to make lot of other cool holiay crafts such as thie Beaded Halloween Card.
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October 29th, 2007

Candy for Kids Jewelry Project

Candy corn jewelry seems to be really popular. Here’s a project your kids may enjoy making with you. It’s called Candi the Corn Pin.
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October 28th, 2007

Black Cat Seed Bead Earrings

Here’s a bead weaving project for you using odd count peyote: Beaded Peyote Cat Earrings. This looks like a nice small project for anyone who’s trying to learn to create patterns in your peyote bead weaving.
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October 27th, 2007

Charming Halloween

Super easy and super cute - Use charms in your jewelry designs. These cute enamel charms are from Oriental Trading. Add them to ear hooks for instant earrings, attach a few to a bracelet-sized chain for a charm bracelet, or slip on a longer chain or even some rat-tail cording to make some super quick […]

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October 26th, 2007

Bead Babe Blogs 10/26/07

Art Bead Scene
Virginia Miska shows a step by step, easy and inexpensive way to remove tarnish from your silver beads and components, with common materials found right in your kitchen!
 
Bead Arts
There are lots of great lampwork and hot glass forums out there! Can you think of any to add to Cyndi’s list?
 
Katie’s Beading Blog
Beading Daily […]

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October 25th, 2007

Kid’s Halloween Jewelry

Though the Kaboose site is sadly in need of some pictures of the finished craft items it provides instructions for, you can find a wealth of information over there mainly directed at crafts for kids. However, I did find a number of jewerly items for the little gobblins such as Candy Corn Pin and some Clay […]

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October 24th, 2007

Spider Earrings

Like my larger version of the bead and wire spider, these are pretty much the same thing just scaled down plus the addition of a hook on top of his head so you can attach it to an ear hook to make them into spider earrings. I still wear these just about every year and […]

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October 22nd, 2007

Tibetan Skull Beads

These earrings combine Tibetan prayer beads (which I got years ago at South Pacific), gold-stone beads, and limestone beads. Very easy! Very fun for the Halloween holidays.
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October 22nd, 2007

Lampwork Dead Heads

These are from a join web site of Penny Michelle and Joan Miller. They call them Dead Head Pendants. And the hats! Got to love those hats!
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