10/10/07 WigJig Newsletter on Jewelry Making, Jewelry Supplies, Beads and Wire

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.

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Birthstone for October: The birthstone for October is the tourmaline. There are 14 officially recognized varieties of tourmaline varying in color from black, to yellow, to pink, to green, to blue and finally to colorless. Among the most common variations are the pink tourmaline shown at right and the green tourmaline shown below-left. There is even one variation of tourmaline that is pink on one end and green on the opposite end. This variation is called, appropriately enough, watermelon tourmaline. Please select here to view more information on tourmaline.

In our WigJig store, we sell natural, mined pink tourmaline, man-made green tourmaline and pink cubic zirconia gemstones that are visually identical to the Pink variation of tourmaline. Please select either picture above to view our selection of tourmaline gemstones.

Also, we now have three jewelry making kits that contain Pink Cubic Zirconia (simulating pink tourmaline) and are excellent gift ideas for someone born in October. You can view these new kits below. All three kits are suitable for beginners. Please select any picture below to view that kit in our Internet store including links to our free instructions for assembling that kit.


Ring Kit	Earring Kit	Necklace Kit

WigJig Brand Hand Tools: Our shipment of our WigJig branded hand tools has finally arrived. You can view all of these jewelry making tools here. We believe that these tools provide the best possible functionality at very reasonable prices. For people who are registered with us as wholesale buyers (with a store) we have wholesale prices on these new tools beginning with a minimum purchase of three of each tool. Please send us an e-mail if you want to re-sell these tools.

New Products: Since our last newsletter, we have added several new items to our Internet store. These new items help to make jewelry with 1/2 drilled pearl beads as shown below. You can view our new instructions for making jewelry with these findings starting here.


Gold Filled Bead Cap for 1/2 Drilled Pearl Beads	Sterling Silver Lever Back Finding for 1/2 Drilled Beads	Sterling Silver or Gold Filled Filigree Bail Finding for 1/2 Drilled Beads

Oval Links Jewelry Wire & Beads Bracelet Jewelry Making Project

Free Jewelry Design:

Oval Links Jewelry Wire & Beads 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 Oval Links Jewelry Wire and Beads earrings and bracelet shown here. This is an intermediate jewelry making project and is probably not a good choice for a beginner. These earrings and bracelet could be made on any of our WigJig Jewelry Making Tools and require regular metal pegs for your jig and both 1/2" and 3/8" Super Pegs. In making the bracelet we used 18 gauge and 20 gauge soft wire and 24 gauge 1/2 hard wire, but you could make both the earrings and the bracelet with 20 gauge wire and 22 gauge wire if that was what you had available. We used a combination of size 6 seed beads and 6mm glass crystal beads, but you could use 8mm beads or several other bead combinations. To view our instructions for how to make these Oval Links Jewelry Wire & Beads Earrings and Bracelet select here, or select any picture above.

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 week's jewelry making technique is a discussion on how to use our new jewelry making findings with 1/2 drilled pearl beads to make necklaces and earrings. These new findings work best with 8mm 1/2 drilled pearl beads. All three styles of these findings have a post that is used for gluing the 1/2 drilled beads onto the finding using jeweler's cement like our item 0359 from our Internet store. The jewelry that can be made using these findings is shown left, right and below-right. Eventually we will have these findings in stock in all three styles in both sterling silver and gold-filled. Unfortunately, at this time we only have the filigree bail necklace finding in both sterling silver and gold filled. The lever back earring finding shown above-left is only available in sterling silver as shown. The bead cap finding used to make the gold-filled earrings shown above-right are currently only available in gold filled.

You can view our complete instructions for making the jewelry shown here by selecting here or by selecting any picture of the finished jewelry.

We really like the jewelry that can be made with these new findings. It makes excellent gifts. This jewelry has everything that we like in a jewelry project -- it looks like it was made by a professional jeweler, it costs very little to make, and it takes less than a minute to assemble the jewelry. (Although we do recommend allowing the glue to dry for 10 minutes minimum before you wear it.)

Nostalgia Corner:
This week's featured design in our Nostalgia Corner is the design for our Jewelry Wire Ring jewelry making project. This ring is a relatively simple project, but it does require a ring mandrel and a nylon hammer in addition to one of our WigJig tools to complete. This same basic style of ring can also be used to make toe rings although you may need to adjust the size for a toe ring. You can view several different ways to finish this ring jewelry making project below.

Please select here, or select either picture above to view our instructions for making our Simple Jewelry Wire Ring Project shown here.

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.

If you have ever in your entire life been offended by any joke -- please skip the below paragraphs. It is not our intention to offend anyone! We don't write these jokes, we only re-tell jokes that we have heard on the public radio, television or over the Internet.

Boomer Humor:

Boomer was in a bar and overheard two men talking. Billy Bob says to Luther "Ya know, I reckon I'm about ready for a vacation. Only this year I'm gonna do it differently.

Three years ago, you suggested that I go to Hawaii. I went to Hawaii and my wife, Earlene got pregnant.

Two years ago you suggested that I go to the Bahamas. I went to the Bahamas and Earlene got pregnant again.

Last year you suggested that I go to Mexico. I want to Mexico and darned if Earlene didn't get pregnant again. "

Luther responds "What are you going to do differently this year?"

Billy Bob answers "This year I'm gonna take Earlene with me."

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 Global Priority Mail and charge $5 over the US Mail charge for this shipping service. Please select here to view our entire shipping policy.

WigJig University. We provide over 2,700 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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Beads, Jewelry Tools & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig Jewelry Making Newsletter

8mm Round Lt. Grey 1/2 Drilled Swarovski Crystal Pearl Beads Sale Priced $1.51 per package of two beads. These pearl beads go perfectly with our new sterling silver findings!	6mm Round Pink CZ and 6mm Sterling Silver Snap-Fit Earring Setting Sale Priced $4.80 per package of two gemstones or $3.60 for package of one pair of settings purchased separately.
6mm Bicone Swarovski Black Diamond Beads or Jonquil Beads Sale Priced $2.39 per package of 12 beads.	WigJig Hand Tool Kit for Beginners Sale Priced $27.96.
Breast Cancer Awareness Charm $2.23 per charm October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month!	20g Natural Silver Anti-Tarnish Coated, Silver-plated Wire 18' Spool $3.19

Beads, Jewelry Wire, Tools & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig Newsletter 10/10/2007