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WigJig News: In our last two newsletters we discussed our all day class to be held in Gaithersburg, MD on Saturday, October 15th. We have a few seats open for this class. Details about this class can be viewed in our last newsletter here. If you would like to sign up for this class, please send us and e-mail and include your telephone number and a suggested time to call. In our February 27th newsletter we discussed a US charity that is supporting a missionary project in Haiti teaching Haitians how to make jewelry and helping to sell the finished products. This charity now has a web site. You can view information on their work and see the jewelry items that they have for sale here: We suggest that everyone visit their web site both to view their jewelry and to read the stories of the people who are making the jewelry. Our understanding is that this project is helping the people involved to earn an income that is significantly above the national average for Haiti. As the old saying goes, "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to make jewelry and you feed him for a lifetime". ;-) Finally, we are getting ready for the Lapidary Journal Bead Fest show in Fort Washington, PA October 7, 8 and 9. Gary Helwig will be demonstrating our WigJig Tools in the Soft Flex Booth. If you are able to attend the show, please stop by and say hello. You can find information on the show here and directions to the show here. Remember we will be in the Soft Flex Booth. You won't see us under the name WigJig.
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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 Freshwater Pearl Necklace shown at right. This
necklace uses one of our new 16"
 strands
of Grade B freshwater
 pearls
in the 5.5 to 6mm size, 2x4mm bugle beads, and size 11 crystal S/L seed
beads along with a clasp made on our WigJig tools. The clasp can
be made with our WigJig Olympus, Olympus Lite, Delphi or Centaur and
requires two 3/16" Super Pegs and six inches of 18 or 20 gauge wire.
The necklace is strung on 28-30 inches of size .024 Soft Flex and
finished with four 2x2mm crimp beads.
This necklace was make with white freshwater pearls and black 2x4mm bugle beads. We suggest considering all colors of the bugle beads with the white freshwater pearls. Other colors of pearls could also be used with the crystal S/L or gold S/L bugle beads.
To view our
instructions for how to make this jewelry item please select here or any picture
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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: The stand shown here is for display of earrings and could also be used to display bracelets. It is about 4 inches wide and 4 inches tall. The basic stand is made with 12 gauge wire on our WigJig Olympus. 24 Gauge wire was used to make the small loops for hanging the earrings. Admittedly this stand looks hand made. The next time we make this stand it will look slightly less hand made as we learn to do a better job making the stand. Fortunately, we don't think that looking hand made is necessarily a bad thing. When you are displaying jewelry this stands sends an unstated message -- this jewelry is hand made. Since this stand is not something that people see every day, perhaps some people will stop to see how the stand was made and end up looking at the jewelry. Perhaps in this case, imperfection is perfect. We'll know better on October 10th after we get home from the Bead Fest. |
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We are continuing to improve our newsletter, so please feel free to provide feedback at custsrv@wigjig.com. Announcements: 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: September 20, 2007 |
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