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Summary: Handcrafted earrings make wonderful gifts. Learn the supplies you need to start making beaded earrings in this free video clip about making jewelry with beads.
Dona Whitehurst operates two businesses. One is Avalon jewelry, and they specialize in sterling silver. The other makes handcrafted jewelry using stones and crystal. They have been in...read more
"The next thing that we are going to talk about is earrings and making earrings. One of the great things about, is you can be very creative with your colors. You can use crystals and genuine stones. These are a few of my earring forms that I like to use. Each of these, some of them do come with already the wires attached to them so you don't have to wire it yourself. These are all forms that are used so that you can put your beads on to these and design them really nicely. This right here are studs that you can attach to this particular form to make a stud rather than a French wire. This also is a different type of wire that are used so you can attached those as well if you prefer something more dangily. These are more for the studs. All of these are sterling silver. They come from different countries. The antique ones are usually from Indonesia. They look very nice on the earring especially with someone with long hair because you can make these with one bead on the end or you can make them as long as ten beads if you would like for a really long dramatic look. And this is a sample of what I have made and then here is the catalog book, you can see all the different shapes and sizes of your studs, and also the French wires and French hooks. And then also you can do a wire that goes around with a hoop and you can string your beads on the hoop and it's already preformed."
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