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I love making charm bracelets, and I love Christmas, so if you put the two together, you get Christmas-y charm bracelet fun! I make my charm bracelets using either 8 mm rings and 4 mm rings to join them or 10 mm rings and 5 mm rings to join them. You’ll want to get at...
These Christmas snowflake forms are a lovely way to make ornaments for your tree, and at $4.00 for eight, they’re also inexpensive. I suggest using acrylic beads for this project – they’re inexpensive, weigh less than glass or wooden beads, and come in tons of pretty colours! For these projects I used 4 mm clear...
Check out the tutorial for this Twilight inspired bracelet from Rings & Things! The red and black beaded bits are easy charms to make – we’ll be making these in our class on September 17th – and you can make the bracelet itself with some 10 mm and 5 mm jump rings (although we’ll be...
This is an example of our two tiered earrings with the two loops! As you can see I am using plastic shepherd hooks because I can’t wear metal in my ears! I hope you enjoyed the incredibly chaotic class yesterday! If you’re interested in learning more about jewellery making, please join us Thursday, September 17...
This is a very poorly photographed picture of my favourite bracelet – the hydrogen cyanide and oxygen bracelet. If you have too much HCN, you won’t have enough O2!Welcome Yarrow craftsters! I hope you enjoyed the group yesterday. If you’re interested in making more jewellery or want copies of the handouts, please click here for...