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Got Some Beautiful Beads And Don’t Know What To Do With Them?
By Terri Batsakis
You log onto a website and come across pages and pages of beads. You walk into a bead shop and find yourself staring at walls full of beads. Where do you start? What goes with what? You look at the beads and wonder, how does that become jewellery?
Let’s face it we’ve all been there at some stage. How do you move to the next stage? Ask an expert! People make a living off making jewellery, ask them.
I bet you’ve look at those reels of beading wire and thought, hmm now that looks like fun, but what and how do I make anything with it? Want to know the secret to mastering wire? Ask the retailer, afterall, if they are selling it, chances are they know how to use it!
Bead retailers that make all their own jewellery pieces are the best place to start. That way you can view the jewellery pieces and know exactly what you will need, to make that item. The fact that they sell beads means you should also be able to purchase the required beads and findings directly from the jewellery artist.
A reliable and trustworthy bead retailer will encourage questions and happily give you free advice, if it means traffic to their store.
Beginners, choose a jewellery piece you would like to replicate. Then contact the bead retailer asking them for advice on what beads, findings, or wire you might need to make that piece of jewellery. If possible, ask for step by step instructions; a customer focused retailer, will be more than happy to supply them.
Regular beaders, with your experience and confidence feel free to shop til you drop. Checking out the jewellery piece you want to make will make it easier to select your goodies; you know what you need.
Some people are not very good at visualizing the end product. You may look a range of beads you think might look great together, but can’t actually picture how they will look as a finished jewellery piece. So go the other
way; find the jewellery piece, then choose the beads. At least then you know what it is going to look like!
There are so many beautiful beads out there, you don’t want to buy a kilo of the same style just because they are cheap and have all your jewellery made with the same beads. Look for beads that are sold in small quantities to avoid leftovers you have no use for. That way you can buy different style beads for the same price and make different jewellery pieces.
Findings should be purchased in bulk. Head pins, eye pins, crimps and jump rings are the foundations of your jewellery pieces. They can be used in many different ways to put your pieces together. Buying the basics in bulk saves you money that you can spend on glamorous beads.
Beading can become a very expensive hobby. An honest bead retailer will show you how to cut your costs without cutting your quality. They will share with you their experience and ideas on how to save time and money. They will guide you along with what tools of the trade are necessary and which ones are just gimmicks. The less you spend on tools the more you can spend on, you guessed it, beads!
Knowing where to start can be daunting. Let a passionate expert enhance your beading creativity. Ignite your passion now. About the author: Terri Batsakis offers advice for beaders just beginning. Taking you through a step by step manual on how to select the perfect beads, to make that unique beautiful piece of jewellery?, even if you are just a beginner.
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