WigJig Newsletter 051231 on Jewelry making, Jewelry Supplies, Beads and Wire12/31/05

WigJig News:

Our plans for shows for 2006 have changed. We now plan on attending the Tucson Best Bead Show January 31 through February 4th. This show will be at the Kino Community Center. We will be demonstrating our WigJig tools in the Soft Flex Booth at the back of the auditorium. Remember look for Soft Flex we won't have our WigJig name on the booth.

We want people to use our designs and everyone is authorized to sell our designs for jewelry that they make. With that said, we would like to do something to help people who are making and selling jewelry. Our experience has been that it isn't always obvious which designs will sell best. We don't try to sell our jewelry, but we do go to shows and display our jewelry. At these shows we occasionally get customers who want to purchase our jewelry. To our surprise, we get more offers for our "Money" Earrings than almost any other design.

We understand that many of the subscribers to our newsletter are selling jewelry made using designs derived from the projects shown in our WigJig web site. We would like to build a new web page showing our jewelry designs that sell well based upon inputs from our newsletter subscribers. If you are selling jewelry, please send us an e-mail and tell us which of our designs sell well for you. We will share this information on the Internet and believe that it will help everyone to be able to improve their jewelry sales.

Vanessa Gilkes Jewelry Making Project This week we have two guest contributors. The design on the left was contributed by Suzan Suzan Gran Jewelry Making Project Gran of Connecticut. Suzan calls this design "My LIttle Teapots". Suzan reports that she has already sold a pair of her Little Teapots.

On the right, the picture of the wire doll in the frame was contributed by Vanessa Gilkes of Pennsylvania. Vanessa says she made this doll using our WigJig Olympus. Vanessa plans on selling copies of this doll, but she hasn't found the right market yet.

Our thanks go to Suzan and Vanessa for sharing these designs with us. If you have questions Suzan can be reached at szcarver@mindspring.com and Vanessa can be reached at flowergurl4eva@gmail.com.

Free Jewelry Design:

Falling Raindrop Earrings Jewelry Making Project

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 Falling Raindrop Earrings shown here. If these earrings were to be made without the chain shown, connecting the raindrop component directly to your ear wire, they would be just Raindrop Earrings. With the chain they are Falling Raindrops.

These earring were made using any of our WigJig tools, one metal peg and a single 7/16" Super Peg. The earrings on the right were made with 20 gauge 1/2 hard wire. The earrings on the left were made with 18 gauge 1/2 hard wire. All four earrings shown were made with an 8mm round bead in the center with a size 11 seed bead on either side.

To view our instructions for how to make this jewelry item please select here or select any earring picture above. We hope you like this project.

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 making technique is a new page of instructions on how to make ear wire findings. We frequently get requests for instructions on how to make ear wires and we have several designs for ear wires on our web site. We have assembled a new web page with links to all of our instructions for making ear wires. You can view this new web page here. Most of the designs shown on this web page will be instructions from the free portion of our web site. A few designs are from our online books.

To view our instructions on how to make ear wire jewelry findings please select here or any of the pictures above.

Nostalgia Corner:

We are adding a new feature to our newsletter. We call it Nostalgia Corner because we are revisiting past designs. This weeks featured design in our Nostalgia Corner is the Silvered Rainbow Necklace. The links in this necklace are made of 21 gauge square sterling silver wire that has been doubled and twisted together. The beads shown are our Bead Slices. Most of our Bead Slices are hand blown glass beads made by David Christensen. You can view our selection of Bead Slices here. You can view our Silvered Rainbow Necklace by selecting either picture.

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 waive the shipping charge on orders over $60 shipped within the US (as long as these orders remain over $60). 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 2,200 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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WigJig Jewelry Making Newsletter

6 mm Swarovski Round 50 Facet Tanzanite Beads Package of 6	4 mm Bicone Swarovski Sapphire Light Beads Package of 24
4mm Round Swarovski Rose Beads Package of 12	Sterling Silver Round Medium Curb Chain Bottom Chain in picture above
Sterling Silver Lever Back Ear Wire	18 Gauge Natural Silver Silver-plated wire with Enamel Anti-tarnish coating

Beads & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig Newsletter for 12/31/2005