WigJig Newsletter 061113 on Jewelry Making, Jewelry Supplies, Beads and Wire dated 11/13/2006

Boomer the Beads & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig Spokesdog WigJig News -- AKA Boomer Sez:

Our Spokesdog: If an insurance company can have a gecko, we have decided that we can have a spokesdog. Boomer, shown at right, is our spokesdog. Boomer acts as our alarm clock. Unfortunately, he does not understand the concept of daylight savings time versus standard time, so he is still on daylight savings time and is off by an hour now. This means that he wakes us up and he also wants to eat both an hour earlier by the current clock.

New Store: We have corrected the links to "Zoom Photo" for the products in our new store. These links should be working now.

New Items: We have some new Bling Earrings kits now in our store. The earrings shown at right, made with 10mm gemstones are our new kit, part number kit-gblinglwb4. This kit sells for $15.99 and is made with gold-filled findings and two AAA 10mm, white, cubic zirconia. The only tool necessary to make these earrings is a bent chain nose plier. This is a beginner's project that will take about 10 minutes to complete. Complete instructions for making these earrings can be found here. If you could find these earrings in a jewelry store or on the Internet, they would easily sell for more than 10 times our price. This sounds too good to be true, but in this case it isn't. We buy the findings and gemstones directly from the manufacturers and so unlike most jewelry items there are no middle men involved. Since you make these earrings yourself, you get More Bling for Less Cha-Ching™. Please select here, or the picture above to view this earring kit in our Internet store. These kits make great Christmas presents.

Guest Contributors: First, our apologies to Hedrian Badalvarda of Iran. In our last newsletter, we had incorrectly labeled Hedrian as a he. She isn't. We hope that she forgives us.

Second, we have two guest contributors this newsletter. The first is Lisa Vernon's Halloween necklace shown at left. Lisa works for Soft Flex Company in Sonoma, CA and has been making jewelry for her friends for years. Since we missed this Halloween, we will work with Lisa to develop instructions for making this necklace for next Halloween.

Finally, we also have a series of pictures of jewelry from Ken VanDe Walker of Olean, New York. Ken formerly made and held classes in how to make stained glass. At present, Ken is holding classes in how to make jewelry using our WigJig tools. You can view more of Ken's jewelry by selecting the picture at right. You will see that Ken has used square wire (like the earrings here) and twisted square wire to add interest and variety to his jewelry. Ken can be reached at kencraft66@hotmail.com or via telephone at 716-373-5125. Ken is working on his own web site, if you send him an e-mail, he can let you know when he has his web site working. If you live in the Buffalo, New York area, contact Ken if you are interested in classes.

Warning! Joke Follows.
This is only a joke. We tell jokes because we are in favor of smiling, laughing and being happy. This does not mean that we are opposed to anyone or anything.

Boomer Humor: So far, every newsletter that included a joke elicited a complaint from someone. It seems that some people aren't reading our warning above. If you are a sensitive person, please skip this portion of our newsletter. This week we will tell a Devil joke. If you are a supporter of the Devil don't read any further. With all of that said, here is our joke:

A guy dies and having lived a less than virtuous life, he doesn't go to heaven, instead he goes to hell. When he arrives, hell isn't what he anticipated. There is no fire, no brimstone and everything is clean and modern. A man behind a large desk addresses the newcomer and says "welcome to hell. I know this isn't what you expected. You will have to choose how you spend eternity. You will have to choose door number 1, door number 2 or door number 3." With that said, they proceed to open door 1 and the newcomer views a room with a hardwood floor and mile after mile of people standing on their heads. Whenever the people fall over, the Devil's helpers whip them until they are back on their heads. He sees anguish on every face in the room. Then they proceed to door number 2. In this room he sees mile after mile of people standing on their heads on a bed of nails. When they fall over the Devil's helpers whip them until they are back on their heads. He sees pain and suffering on each face in the room. They proceed to the third door. Behind this door, they see mile after mile of people standing up to their neck in the most vile, foul smelling sewage that you could imagine while eating donuts and drinking coffee. The Devil then asks the newcomer to choose a door for spending eternity. The newcomer says, "Door 1 was bad, but door 2 was probably worse, I think I choose door number 3." With that said, he proceeds to door 3 and starts to wade out into the sewage. Just as he gets situated he hears over a loud speaker "Coffee break's over. Back on your heads."

Boomer sez when you get tired of stringing beads, just remember -- "Coffee breaks over, back on your heads." Be thankful for what you have today, it could get worse tomorrow.

Free Jewelry Design:

Bling Watch with Beads & Gemstones 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 Gemstone & Beads Watches with Bling shown here. The watch bands for these watches are made with two round bezel findings each supporting an 8mm gemstone connected to a strand of beads on either side. The watch faces shown here have a Japanese quartz movement and actually keep very good time. In the watch on the left, we used 8mm man made ruby gemstones. In the watch on the right we used 8mm white AAAAA cubic zirconia gemstones. The strands of beads on either side of the watch are strung on Soft Touch bead stringing wire. To view our instructions for how to make this jewelry item please select here or select either picture above. This is an advanced beginners jewelry making project. It requires the ability to use crimp beads, and to string beads on bead stringing wire with the ability to make wrapped loops using jewelry wire. In addition, you will be shown how to set gemstones into simple settings.

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.

Bling Post Earrings Jewelry Making Project

Jewelry Technique:
This weeks jewelry making technique is a new web page to make it easier to make our Bling Earrings. Since it is almost Christmas and our Bling jewelry makes great Christmas presents we decided to update our web site so that it would be easy to identify the parts necessary to make the earrings shown here. Our new web page lists the tools and parts necessary to make these earrings and provides links to instructions on how to make the earrings. Since all of these projects are 1. inexpensive -- less than $20, 2. very quick to make -- less than 15 minutes, 3. easy to make even for a beginner, and 4. make earrings that would sell for more than 10 times our price for the materials, we believe that all of these earrings will make great Christmas presents. We suggest that you order early as our anticipation is that we will sell out of the more popular gemstones. We also suggest that you consider using birthstones for the intended recipient to make the gift even more personal. You can view a web page listing the birthstones for each month here. (At this time we do not have a good gemstone for October. Other than October, we sell a gemstone for the other 11 months.) Please note that while we try to keep all the components noted on this web page in stock, you may find that some of the products aren't available. We are restocking these components on a weekly basis and anticipate having more stock available soon. To visit this new web page select any picture above, or select here.

Nostalgia Corner:
This weeks featured design in our Nostalgia Corner is the design for our Paper Clip Earrings shown at left. These earrings are both unique and easy to make. Making these earrings requires our WigJig Spiral Maker and one of our jigs. This is a quick project and is suitable for beginners. We have updated the instructions for these earrings to include use of a nylon hammer or rawhide hammer to help shape the wire against the Spiral Maker. This will help in making these earrings and will harden the earrings so that the shape will be firmer.

Please select here, or select the picture at left to view our instructions for making the Paper Clip Earrings.

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 FED EX or 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 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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