Beads & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig Newsletter for 06/21/2005

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WigJig News:

Ear Cuff Basic Jewelry Making ProjectFirst, I want to thank everyone who stopped by the Milwaukee Bead and Button Show this past weekend and said hello.  I appreciated the hospitality that we were shown in Milwaukee and we had a very successful show.  My favorite memory of the show was the many 10 to 14 year old young ladies that I gave a sample of our ear cuff basic.  The ear cuff basic is shown at right (on the right) and allows the young ladies to wear an earring without pierced ears.  I was paid for my efforts in smiles and have never in my lifetime received better compensation for my time.  To view this online book, please select the picture at right. 

My next public appearance will be the Beadwork Magazine and Soft Flex Company Bead Retreat show in Sonoma, California on Saturday August 20th and Sunday August 21st.  There will be three classes that I will be giving.  You can view these classes here.

Finally, we have investigated having classes in September in the Washington, DC area, but because of time will not be able to do these classes in a manner that we would find acceptable.  We did have significant interest in these classes, but we need a little more lead time for putting together a quality product.  For this reason, we are going to try to schedule classes for early May 2006 rather than rush to have classes in September of 2005.  I will try to keep everyone informed via our newsletter about when we have our classes.  Thank you for your patience. 

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 July 8th, 2005 or until we run out of that item. 
 


Swarovski 6mm Round Indicolite Beads

6mm Round Swarovski
Indicolite Beads
 


Swarovski 6mm Round Topaz Light Beads

Swarovski 6mm Round
Topaz Light Beads
 


4mm Sterling Silver Round Beads

4mm Round Sterling SilverBeads


Sterling Silver Round Filigree Clasp

Sterling Silver Round Filigree Clasp
 


Sterling Silver Split Ring Jewelry Making Finding

Sterling Silver Split Ring Finding
 


Artistic Wire Silver-plated Natural Silver

20 Gauge Natural Silver Silver-plated Wire

 

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 the design for the Beaded Curtain Earrings shown at right.  We show two styles of these earrings both with links between the segments of chain and without these links.  The pattern for these earrings is very similar to our Beaded Chandelier Earrings, but includes segments of commercial chain to make the strands hanging from each hoop in the earring body.  Instructions for making these earrings can be found by selecting either the picture or the name of the earrings at right. 

Beaded Curtain Jewelry Making Project made with Blue Beads Beaded Curtain Jewelry Making Project Made with Blue Beads

Beaded Curtain Earrings
During the show in Milwaukee, one lady won our hearts as she looked at all the earrings we had on display and pointed to the beaded curtain earrings shown here and said I don't recognize these from your newsletters.  She was absolutely correct, all of the other designs shown had been published except for these earrings.  I was amazed at her memory and even more amazed that she used her excellent memory to remember something as trivial as our earring designs. 
 
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. 

Spiral Ear Wire Jewelry Making Project.Jewelry Technique:
TSpiral Ear Wire Jewelry Making Projecthis weeks jewelry technique is a discussion on how to make a spiral ear wire using our WigJig Spiral Maker, one of our WigJig tools and some 20 gauge soft sterling silver or gold-filled wire.  For the earrings shown here we used the new Argentium Sterling Silver wire.  (Please note that for this project, colored Artistic Wire would not be appropriate as the dyes in the wire may be carcinogenic.) 

If you understand how to use the WigJig Spiral Maker, making these ear wires is a very easy project.  For those of you who are not familiar with our Spiral Maker, you can find instructions for this jewelry making technique here.  For instructions on how to make these ear wires, please select either picture, above left or right. 
 

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. 

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