WigJig Jewelry Making Newsletter for 12/12/2004

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WigJig News:
Starting on Monday, December 13th and continuing through New Years Day, we will begin sending as many orders as possible via UPS Ground shipping.  This allows us to have a tracking number on our orders during the Christmas rush period.  We make this change so that we can ensure delivery of our orders during that time when the US Post Office is busiest.  For most customers this will not result in any slow down in delivery of your order.  For customers in the West, unfortunately, UPS Ground is slightly slower than Priority Mail so these customers may experience slightly longer times for delivery. 

During the Christmas period, many people are shopping for presents, which must arrive before Christmas Day.  Should you find that shipping your order by UPS Ground will not get your order to you in time, we can expedite the shipping.  If you need expedited shipping, please e-mail us after you complete your order.  We can upgrade to UPS Three Day shipping service for an additional $7 in shipping.  We can upgrade to UPS Two Day service for an additional $9 in shipping.  Finally, we can upgrade to overnight shipping for an additional $11 in shipping.  As always, we ship orders on the business day after the business day that we receive the order. 

On Sale:
We update the jewelry supplies that we have "On Sale" with every newsletter.  A small sample of the products we have for sale at discounted prices 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.  This sale will be effective through December 25, 2004 or until we run out of that item. 
 


Swarovski 6mm Bicone Siam Beads

6mm Bicone Swarovski
Siam Beads


Swarovski 12x10mm Crystal Cross

10x12mm Swarovski Crystal Cross
 


Cur Bur Economy Jewelry Making Tool

Cup Bur Economy Tool


Gold-Filled Ear Wire Jewelry Finding

Gold-Filled Ear Post
 with Loop

 

Freshwater Pearl Beads

Freshwater Pearl Nugget White


Bali-Style Medium Snake Beads

18 Gauge Artistic Wire
Natural Silver Silver-plate

 

Free Jewelry Design:
With every newsletter we provide a new jewelry design from WigJig University to spur the creative juices.  The new design for this newsletter is design for the 4 Dangle Earrings shown at right.  These were made on our new WigJig Centaur, but we also provide patterns for making these earrings on any clear WigJig jewelry making jig.  The combination of the Swarovski Crystal beads with the silver lined bugle beads in the bead dangles seems to be very popular.  This is an advanced beginner's jewelry making project.  Select here to view our instructions for making these 4 Dangle Earrings with Beads. 


4 Dangle Earrings with Beads

Past Techniques:
We maintain a 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. 
Jewelry Technique:
This weeks jewelry technique is a discussion of some common mistakes and what can be done to avoid them.  We show pictures of common mistakes like using the sharp end of cut wire, or not closing a loop completely as shown at right.  For both of the example pictures shown at right, the proper loop should appear as shown below.  Included in this discussion are problems like the wire component springing apart when removed from the jig and other common problems.  To view our pages of discussion on common mistakes select either picture or the text at right. 


Sharp End

Open Loop


Common
Mistakes


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 projects -- try one of our Online Books.  Our most detailed 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 UPS international service 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 2,000 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.  We are also happy to sell our WigJig tools to stores.  Please send us an e-mail if you are interested in selling our WigJig tools. 

Classes.  We have a listing of various jewelry-making classes using our WigJig tools that are offered by bead stores throughout the country.  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 at custsrv@wigjig.com so that we can include them in these pages. 

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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