How to Use a Bead Board for Refurbishing Jewelry

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Marie French with laying out the necklace now here at Expert Village. So what most people use is this lovely designer bead stringing chart. It will give you the different lengths of what your necklace will be. You can have the choker size. You can have around 20 inches and some people go to 26. Most times I design a necklace of either the choker height or I do a double strand so that I have a long necklace that somebody can make into a 20 inch necklace and/or a 36 inch necklace. What we are going to do here because of the pendant that I have chosen, I feel it is going to be much prettier at a choker level so that your necklace is just going to drop down a little bit and it gives you that focal point right at the neck. So we are going to start laying it out that way. So I am going to take this board and I am going to put the pendant right smack in the middle. Now I am only going to have the 16 inch line showing. I am going to cut my pearls now and I am going to add two pearls on either side here. Now I am going to add chain, rose quartz, I figure I am going to add more chain and rose quartz. Now I am going to do a string of pearls on each side and I'll add some more rose quartz here and now I'm going to add long chain and then we'll use the closure to close it."