Beads & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig Newsletter for 08/08/2005

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Black and Purple Necklace and Bracelet Jewelry Making Project by Gwenda RabelinkWigJig News:

This week we have a jewelry design by a guest contributor.  The necklace at right was made by Gwenda Rabelink of The Netherlands approximately two weeks after she received her WigJig Centaur.  Gewnda started making jewelry when she was 12 years old.  She had gotten away from this hobby until a year ago, she began searching on the Internet for sources for beads and tools.  Fortunately for us, she managed to find our WigJig web site and ultimately placed an order.  After receiving her order she was so pleased with the results that she sent us a picture of her latest project.  This design is her own and is not documented on our web site.  If you have any questions for Gwenda, she was very kind and allowed us to provide her e-mail address.  If you wish to contact her she can be reached at wonderwoman28gmr@hotmail.com

Many people have asked us for better ways to print pages from our web site.  One way that may help is to highlight the appropriate part of our web page using your mouse then select the drop down menu "File" followed by the command "Print".  When the Print box opens, select the option "Selection".  This will print the highlighted text and pictures and will enable printing of our web pages without the Internet header and footer.  We hope this helps. 

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 August 22nd, 2005 or until we run out of that item. 
 


4mm Round 25 Facet Swarovski Crystal AB Beads

4mm Round 25 Facet Swarovski Crystal AB Beads
 


Rice Peach Freshwater Pearl Beads

4x3mm (Rice) Peach
Freshwater Pearl Beads
 

6mm Czech Glass Pony Beads Dk. Amethyst

6mm Czech Dark Amethyst Pony Beads


Gold Filled Ear Post with Loop Finding

Gold Filled Ear Post with Loop
 


Gold Plated 7.5" Bracelet with Clasp

Gold Plated 7.5" Bracelet with Clasp
 


Artistic Wire Silver-plated Natural Silver

22 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 4 Dangle Earrings shown at right.  These earrings are a new method of making a design that we had documented earlier.  We believe that this new technique for making the earrings will be easier and quicker, which in the long run means that it is a smarter way to make these earrings.  This design was made on one our our jigs with a square peg pattern (Olympus, Olympus Lite, Delphi or Centaur), although this design could be easily adapted to a jig with a round peg pattern.  These earrings are made with 20 or 18 gauge wire.  This jewelry making project is relatively simple to complete and is considered an advanced beginner's project. 

To view our instructions for how to make this jewelry item please select either the picture or the title at right.

4 Dangle Earrings Jewelry Making Project Made with Aqua Swarovski Beads4 Dangle Earrings Jewelry Making Project Made with Rose Beads

4 Dangle Earrings

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:
Campbell's Earring Jewelry Stand -- Jewelry Making ProjectThis weeks jewelry technique is a discussion on how to make the hook and catch clasp finding shown at right.  The design for the catch shown in light amethyst wire is a design that we documented earlier.  The design for the hook is new.  This is a relatively easy clasp to make and should work well when used in necklaces.  This is an advanced beginners project.  Please select the picture at right to view our instructions for making this hook finding.
 

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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