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WigJig Newsletter for 4/11/2004

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ON SALE:
We update the jewelry supplies we have "On Sale" with every newsletter.  A small sample of the products we currently have for sale at a discount are shown below.  Please click on any of the text below the pictures to view our entire list of sale items.  Quantities are limited for these items so please shop early.  This sale will be effective through April 23, 2004. 
 

 
WigJig jewelry making tools and jewelry supplies.

Bead Crimping Pliers

WigJig beads and jewelry making supplies.

Swarovski 6mm Bicone
Garnet Beads


WigJig jewelry making supplies

8mm Magnetic Clasp Gold Plate

 

WigJig jewelry making supplies.

Sterling Silver Earring Post
With Ball and Loop


WigJig jewelry making supplies.

Earring Clutch Sterling Silver
 


WigJig jewelry making wire and other jewelry supplies.

18g Artistic Wire Natural Silver Non-Tarnish Silverplate wire
 

 
FREE JEWELRY DESIGN:
With every newsletter we provide a free jewelry making design from WigJig University to spur the creative juices.  This newsletter's free designs are the designs for wire chandelier earrings shown at right.  The earrings shown were made with Swarovski 6mm bicone emerald crystal beads, 20 gauge wire, and ear wire finding, and some 24 gauge wire (optional).   These earrings are a beginners project and while they have a lot of steps in their construction, each step is easy to accomplish.  You can find complete instructions for this jewelry making design here
 



Emerald Chandelier Earring

Past Techniques:
We maintain a jewelry making techniques web page that provides links to the discussion of techniques in our prior newsletters.  You can visit this web page here.  Follow the links on that page to the discussion of the technique in that newsletter.  You will need to scroll down to view the techniques section in each prior newsletter. 

Jewelry Making Technique:
This newsletter's jewelry making technique is how to make the bookmark shown at right.  This is a simple project and is suitable for children.  The bookmark is made from an 8 inch segment of 18 gauge wire, some beads, a head pin and some 22 gauge wire.  Instructions for making this bookmark follow.

Begin by cutting and straightening a piece of 18 gauge soft wire 8 inches long.  Make a spiral either using the WigJig Spiral Maker, or as shown here.  Leave about 3-4 inches of straight wire and make a loop in the end of the wire opposite the spiral.  A wrapped loop was used in the bookmark shown at right, you could also use an eye loop.  (The technique for making a wrapped loop is shown here.)  Attach a bead dangle to the loop in the end of the wire.  In the book mark show at right a wrapped bead link was used to connect between the bead dangle and the loop in the end of the wire. 

All of the skills involved in this project are beginners skills and are described in our "Beginners Start Here" section of WigJig University.  This is a good opportunity to use colored wire and to coordinate the color of the wire with the beads. 

We are continuing to improve our newsletter, so please feel free to provide feedback at custsrv@wigjig.com

Announcements:
Online Books.  If you are looking for new and interesting jewelry making projects -- try one of our Online Books.  Our most detailed jewelry making instructions are for sale online.  Please select here to view our selection of online books.  These books are delivered over the Internet and there are no shipping costs on an order with just online books.  This week, our Wire Design Basics Book 2 online book is on sale for 20% off. 

Shipping Policy.  We ship all retail orders over $60 for free within the US.  For International orders we ship via FED EX International and charge $34.95 (our average cost) for this expedited shipping service.  Please select here to view our entire shipping policy.

WigJig University.  We provide Over 1,500 web pages of free information, tips, techniques and free jewelry making designs in WigJig University.  We encourage everyone to view this information as a source for new ideas, projects, or a way to learn new techniques.  We now have a page in WigJig University that shows our designs by sorted by the WigJig tool used to make them.  Please select here to view that information. 

International Vendors.  We do have vendors who sell our WigJig products outside the US.  We encourage customers to contact these vendors in their home country.  Please select here to view our list of overseas vendors.

Classes.  We are still working to develop web pages showing who has jewelry making classes where.  If you are interested in classes, please select here.  If you know someone who has classes in using our WigJig tools, please ask them to send us an e-mail so that we can include them in these pages.  Please send the e-mails to custsrv@wigjig.com

FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS OVER $60.00 SHIPPED to USA - Customer Care - WigJig, PO Box 5124, Gaithersburg, MD 20882; (800) 579-WIRE (phone), (240) 597-2262 (fax), custsrv@wigjig.com (email).  Privacy Policy.  All content on this web site including jewelry and wire designs are copyrighted by WigJig.  WigJig is a registered trademark.  Last modified: January 11, 2008

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This WigJig jewelry making newsletter is provided as part of WigJig University.  We try to provide interesting jewelry projects using beads, jewelry wire and other jewelry supplies.  We hope that these pictures will provide you enough information for you to complete this project.  Some of the skills and jewelry making techniques have not been discussed here.  For beginners, we suggest that you visit our Beginners Start Here pages. These pages discuss the skills necessary for making jewelry in the detail that beginners need. We also suggest that beginners to jewelry making might need to visit the WigJig University College of Jewelry Making Techniques for additional information about some of the skills and techniques shown. 

 Most, but not all of the jewelry supplies shown here can be purchased in our WigJig store.  We try to have a complete selection of jewelry supplies in our store including chain, wire, glass beads, findings, watches, tools, etc.