Beaded Bracelet Patterns

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I first discovered the "jewelry gift service / shopping service" concept several years ago when a friend of mine, who was married to a local doctor, ordered several bracelet and earring sets for her husband to give to all the ladies on his staff for Christmas.

I was extremely surprised that my friend kept thanking me afterward for making this gift-giving responsibility so easy for them.

Here I'd been thinking that I was the one who had benefited from this transaction, because it was such a big order!

That's when I realized that many people need to give nice gifts, but don't have the time (or don't know where to begin) to shop for them. In fact, most businesses and individuals have to give various types of gifts throughout the year, but they often view it as a major chore.

It isn't that they mind giving gifts. But they either dislike shopping, don't have time to shop, have no idea where to shop, or can't think of a useful and appropriate gift to give.

These businesses and individuals are usually thrilled and relieved to discover that you can solve their gift-giving problems very easily with your jewelry gift service.

Often they'll buy well over a hundred (often several hundred!) dollars of jewelry from you in half an hour, and then thank you over and over for making it so painless for them to give nice gifts!

When you work closely with clients on an individual basis like this, you get to know their preferences so well that you intuitively offer them the right gift selections and guide them to the right jewelry choices.

You also know the components, options, sizes, colors, and prices to bring to their attention. Part of your service involves narrowing down the infinite number of options to a small, select group of jewelry for your client to choose from - based on what you've learned about his or her preferences.

That's what makes you a consultant as much as a jewelry designer.

Your services are valuable to your clients because you become a trusted expert who helps them explore various choices and gift-giving problems.

With a jewelry gift and shopping service, you're not just selling jewelry.

You're providing a valuable service that includes (in this order):
-listening
-understanding
-consulting
-researching
-advising
-problem solving
-customizing...
and then furnishing your client with just the right jewelry gifts to give.

This level of service results in extremely loyal customers. Why would they do their gift shopping anywhere else?

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I love beaded bracelets, they can really liven-up any outfit. They can be worn formally or informally. The best is, other than rings, this is the only jewelry you yourself can see when you wear it.

There are many different styles of bracelets; there are those made with elastic cord, and fit almost all wrists. If you give a bracelet as a present and you're not sure about the wrist size, this would be a safe option.
Then you get the bangle and cuff types, with these two the size has to be right. My personal favourite is the charm bracelet. With the charm bracelet type, the size can be a little bigger; as the person can have it sized or just hook the clasp in one of the chains.

The standard size for bracelets are 19 - 20 cm. There are a lot of smaller and / or bigger wrists. If you're making a bracelet for someone, make sure to get their wrist measurement. Also keep in mind the size of the beads you are using. You'll find if you using bulky beads that a 20cm bracelet might only fit a 15 - 16cm wrist.

If you're not sure how and where to measure for the different types of bracelets, here are some tips:

Bangles: Touch your little finger with your thumb, measure over the widest part of you hand. It would be more or less over the base of your thumb knuckle over the middle part of the back of your hand.

Cuffs: Measure the wrist at the base of the hand (the point where the ulna & radius meet the metacarpals). If you're not sure, it is over where the bone protrudes on the pinkie side.

Charm Bracelet: It is usually worn draped slightly over the hand. So measure this as follows; close the hand, you can see where your thumb starts at the base of your hand (it is about 1cm from where you measure for the cuff). Well, this is where you measure for the charm bracelet.

I know it took me a while to get this info, on how to make the right size bracelets. Hope this will help to make it easier for you, to get the sizing right.

I'll show you how easy it is to use the crimp pliers to crimp beads to begin or end a project. I know it looks so complicated, but you're going to laugh when you see how easy it is.

String the crimp bead onto the wire. Bend the wire about 4cm from the end. String your clasp on, and put in the bend of the wire, now string the end of the wire also through the crimp bead. Pull the crimp bead all the way up to the clasp, so it forms a loop. Now you're ready to crimp the bead.

Place the crimp bead in the space closest to the crimp pliers handle (back), and press down. Make sure the wires are next to each other. See picture 1.

Place the crimped bead in the space closest to the tip (front) of the pliers. Make sure you place it on its side, so it is standing on the flattened ends, because you are going to fold those over each other now, when you press down. Look at picture 2 if you not sure.

This is what it should look like when you are finished crimping. See above picture 3.
Now you can start to string your choice of beads onto the wire. When you're done with the stringing you repeat the process on the other side.

Trim away access wire with wire cutters. You can put a crimp cover over and secure it with the crimping pliers, this is just to finish of your project better, but not necessarily.

I told you that you will laugh when you see how easy it is to use crimping to begin and end a stringing project.

If it's not perfect the first time, don't worry, next time it will be better. Keep on practising. For more ideas and advise head over to Beaded Bracelet Patterns.