| Are you looking for a new hobby or a new | | | | crystallized or glass beads, acrylic or plastic beads, |
| career? Have you considered learning how to | | | | pearls, resin, fabric, polymer clay, and artificial |
| make hand made beaded jewelry for fun and | | | | mother of pearl. |
| profit? | | | | Commercial imitations of metals include sterling |
| In today's economy people are looking at their | | | | silver and plated gold. |
| untapped skills and talents and considering a new | | | | Nature supplies us with wood, bone, teeth, plant |
| career with other types of companies or are | | | | seeds and tree nuts, stone, crystal, coral, and |
| considering self employment. Jewelry beading can | | | | seashells. |
| be done as a home base business, subcontracted, | | | | Nature's most expensive gifts would be gems of |
| or done in a shop. As a hobby it's mobile; bead | | | | diamonds, sapphire, rubies, and emeralds. To |
| anywhere you want to. | | | | these precious gems let's add gold and platinum. |
| I have been making my own unique beaded | | | | Imagine the beaded jewelry designer within you |
| jewelry to adorn casual and evening wear. I enjoy | | | | making a custom beaded necklace, or bracelet of |
| designing one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces. And a | | | | beaded silver beads with turquoise stones, capped |
| surprising result which I did not expect was to | | | | with sterling silver accents. Or a beaded crystal |
| turn a hobby into a profession. Making beaded | | | | jewelry piece or a heart shaped pendant? |
| jewelry sets satisfies my hobby interest as well | | | | Everyone learns in a different way. |
| as preparing for a new profession. | | | | I started with magazines and books. I had trouble |
| Making unique beaded jewelry opens your | | | | understanding the written directions and correctly |
| creativity allowing for self exploration. | | | | visualizing the patterns. The mistakes included |
| Quiet time allows for relaxation and your mind is | | | | using the wrong cording, incorrect beads, wrong |
| able to cleanse itself of unnecessary clutter | | | | needles, poor choice of closures, and wrong |
| freeing you to think constructively. While you are | | | | jewelry tools. Unfortunately, misunderstanding the |
| learning a new beading craft, the beauty of the | | | | patterns created terrible costly errors. |
| beads and the finished jewelry pieces rewards | | | | It was time to get help. |
| you with a feeling of pride and self | | | | I thought about going to classes, but time, travel, |
| accomplishment in a job well done. | | | | and money were problems. The experiences I |
| Beaded jewelry can be seen at arts and crafts | | | | have had with taking craft classes is that you |
| shows, department stores, specialty shops, | | | | understand what you are doing in the the |
| discount stores, jewelry stores, jewelry boutiques, | | | | classroom, but when you go home and start to |
| and even museums. | | | | work on your project that evening or the |
| Fashion models, celebrities, and the general | | | | following day, you discover that you forgot half |
| population wear many different designs of beaded | | | | of what you learned. |
| necklaces, pendants, bracelets, earrings, anklets, | | | | Note taking is limited because your attention is on |
| pins, and rings. Styles are pop, traditional, original, | | | | the instructor. If the class is very large you lack |
| ethnic, antique or vintage, funky, and medical. | | | | individual attention. And if you decide to ask a |
| See your own self stringing a beaded necklace, | | | | question you feel like you're holding other |
| beaded bracelet, and weaving beaded earrings. | | | | classmates behind. |
| What a wonderful gift it is to make a pair of | | | | Extremely important, jewelry working is done |
| birthstone earrings for that special person in your | | | | within the confines of your hands. It needs to be |
| life, or to make a classical pearl necklace for | | | | magnified to truly see what is being done. |
| yourself. | | | | The quickest way to learn how to make hand |
| What types of beads are used in beaded jewelry | | | | made jewelry for fun and profit is using visual |
| designs? | | | | aids. Tap into videos on your computer through |
| Commercial or man made beads would include | | | | the magic of the internet and get started. |