WigJig Newsletter for 7/11/2004

NEW PRODUCTS:
We now have several new brass plated earring drops in our Internet store.  These earring drops are a metal body for an earring.  To complete making an earring with these earrings drops you would need to add an ear wire finding at the top and several bead dangles at the bottom from the loops or holes in the drop.  You can view these products in greater detail in our Internet store.  Select any picture below to view the details on that product.  You can view earrings made with these earring drops in the techniques section of this newsletter (below). 

CANADIAN VENDORS:
We are very happy to sell our WigJig Tools to any store anywhere at our wholesale prices.  In many countries we have reliable vendors selling our WigJig tools.  By clicking here you can view the international vendors selling our WigJig tools.  Unfortunately, we have not found a reliable vendor in Canada.  With many subscribers to our newsletter mailing list in Canada, we would like to be able to offer our WigJig tools without our expensive international shipping costs via a Canadian vendor; but to date we have not found one.  Should any of our Canadian subscribers knows of a vendor selling our tools in Canada, if the vendor will send us an e-mail we would be happy to add their contact information to the above web page.  Should any subscriber know of a shop that would be interested in selling our WigJig tools in Canada, please ask the shop to send us an e-mail we will be happy to provide them our wholesale pricing information.  Once the shop places an order for our WigJig tools, we would add their contact information to our web site and begin referring Canadian customers to them.  We are also happy to work with stores in any other country.  We are aware of a significant opportunity in Canada, and don't know of unfulfilled demand to the same extent in other countries. 

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.  Select the picture itself to view that specific item in our Internet store.  Quantities are limited for these items so please shop early.  This sale will be effective through July 23, 2004. 
 

7 Way Filigree Earring Drop
Brass-plate

Topaz Swarovski 6mm 25 Facet Round Beads Light

Earring Post with Ball and
Loop Gold-filled

8mm Magnetic Clasp 
Gold Plate Silver
 

Bali-Style Bent Pipe
 

18G Natural Silver,
Silver-plated Artistic Wire
 

W Chandelier Earrings

Jewelry Making Technique:
This weeks jewelry making technique is how to turn a finding that we call an earring drop into a pair of earrings.  Select any picture or the text link below the picture to view our instructions for tuning an ear drop into a pair of easy earrings.  The technique is very simple, you add bead dangles from the loops in the ear drop finding and you add an ear wire finding at the top.  In this case we used our Post with 4mm Ball and Loop ear wire finding for all three earrings shown at right.  We used 6mm 25 Faceted Round Swarovski Amethyst Crystal beads for the earrings on the left.  For the center earrings we used 4mm 25 Faceted Round Swarovski Aqua Crystal beads.  For the earrings on the far right, we used both 4mm Bicone Swarovski Garnet Crystal beads and one 6mm Bicone Swarovski Garnet Crystal bead with a 3mm round gold-filled bead.  All three earring drops shown are brass plated. 

Easy Earrings using an
ear drop finding

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. 

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.