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Discover the Joy of Beading!

Beads and Jewels is a group for everyone who loves beads, beading and handmade jewelry. You can find everything you need to know about creating jewelry, accessories, decorations - and more - with beads. You can also see a great selection of bead and jewelry products, learn how to market your handmade business, and learn about other artists in your favorite medium.

Beading and Jewelry Topics

Here's What You'll Find at "Beads and Jewels"

Beading Tutorials
Instructions for creating various types of beads, beadwork and jewelry.

Jewelry Lovers
Lenses about different types of jewelry and how to use them.

Bead Lovers
Discussion about different types of beads.

Fair Trade and Eco-friendly Beads
Using materials or techniques that are better for the world.

Materials, Tools and Beads
A look at beads and other materials needed to create beadwork.

Polymer Clay and PMC
How to use sculpting techniques in beadwork.

Bead Shopping and Selling
Designer showcases, bead store blogs and more.

Christmas Beading
Beading and craft ideas for the holidays.

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Beading Experts

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Fresh Beading Ideas

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Christmas Beading

Learn to create fabulous and unique beaded ornaments, gifts, decorations and more for the holidays!

Beading Tutorials: Christmas Projects

If you enjoy creating your own custom holiday decorations, jewelry or accessories, then Christmas Beading is for you. Using beads in a few classic Holiday colors, anyone can create unique and beautiful items that will be the envy of everyone at the...

Angel Crafts for Christmas

Creating Christmas decorations is an American tradition. In our family, we love to make our own decorations and many are passed down from generation to generation. I have included some patterns and instructions for a few of the Christmas Angels that...

How to Make Beaded Snowflakes

Beaded snowflakes are fun to make! You don't need any beading experience to make these dainty creations. Make one for a pendant. Two beaded snowflakes could become dangles for a pair of earrings. Make dozens and attach them to winter gifts or use the...

An Introduction to Beading

If you're new to the art of beadwork, you've come to the right place to learn all you need to know for starting a new journey into beaded crafts. With Beads and Jewels you can find all the instructions and inspiration you need!

Beading For Beginners

Do you like working with your hands? Are you looking for a craft that is kid-friendly? Would you like to pick right up after an interruption? Do you have little space to hold your craft supplies? Do you need simple, simple, simple in your life? Then...

Beadweaving for Beginners

Beadweaving is an art form that grows in popularity every year. There are dozens of different styles and techniques of beadwork that one can master and apply to fashion, home decor, and more. In this introduction to beading, we will discuss the origi...

Beading Techniques

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Beading Tutorials

Lenses that Feature Instructions for Beadwork

Make Beaded Stars or Mandala

Beaded stars or mandalas make great pendants or earring or even holiday ornaments. You don't need any beading experience to create these jewels. Just get some beads, thread, and a needle and give this project a try! The pattern is addictive, partly b...

Make Your Own Wedding Earrings

Searching for the perfect chandelier wedding earrings to go with your wedding dress? It can be difficult to find wedding earrings that are exactly what you're after. Let me walk you through the process of creating these gorgeous chandelier wedding e...

Make a Hemp Macrame and Bead Choker

Although the finished look of this hemp and bead choker is very intricate, the fishbone pattern is really quite simple to create. If you can tie a square knot, you can make this look. If you don't know how to tie a square knot, then you've come to th...

Beading Tutorials: Spiral Rope

Spiral rope, or spiral rope chain is a popular beading technique that is great for beginners and experts alike. The basic stitch is simple to do, and incredibly easy to adapt, allowing for endless design possiblities. Starting with a basic spiral ro...

How To Make Scrabble Tile Pendants

You've seen 'em. You've heard about 'em. You've wondered how they were made. I'm here to tell you the nitty gritty on how to make Scrabble tile pendants. You can give them as inexpensive gifts or sell them. People are making thousands of dollars eve...

Jewelry Lovers

Group lenses about wearing and enjoying jewelry

Beading Ideas, Inspiration and Insights

Every new piece of beadwork has a history, a place of origin, a source of inspiration. Images, objects, colors, nature, music, fashion - all of these things can inspire artists to create. Bead artists have limitless possibilities when it comes to des...

Do You Know a Fancy Nancy?

Do you have a Fancy Nancy in your house? A Fancy Nancy likes sparkles and glitter, lace and tulle. No amount of jewelry is too much. Tutus, boas, and satin are the latest fashion and she will wear them anywhere. Fancy Nancy is not just for little gi...

Bead Lovers

Group lenses that showcase beads and beadwork

Silver Beads

The Venerable Bead/Bede...The Bead Goes On... is there a pun about beads and beading that has yet to be crafted? I doubt it. However, be on notice, I'm looking! And for all other stuff related to silver beads. Enjoy. Please come back often.

Natural Amber--Facts and History | Amber Jewelry

Amber is fossil tree resin, which is appreciated for its color and beauty. Good quality amber is used for the manufacture of ornamental objects and jewelry. Although not mineralized, it is often classified as a gemstone. A common misconception is th...

Bead like Bead Brain

So you want to know everything about the exotic and mysterious world of beads. Sorry can't help ya. But I can tell you where I got the inspiration, information and instructions to make some of my little beaded wonders.

Magical Gemstones and Mystical Crystals

Over the centuries, many cultures have contributed to the legends, lore and magic surrounding gemstones and crystals. Gemstones are usually mysterious crystalline geometric structures and every naturally formed crystal and gemstone is unique in it's...

Fair Trade and Eco-friendly

Lenses featuring sustainable beading

African Jewelry

Africa is an extremely varied continent, with a vast number of cultures ranging from Morocco to sub-saharan Uganda and even further south to the modern nation of South Africa. The Egyptians produced some of the most elaborate and famous jewelry piece...

African Beads From Recycled Magazines

Women in Uganda lead a challenging life. Some were widowed by conflicts in the north of the country. Many look after children as well. See how they have taken old magazines and turned them into a beautiful product: paper beads. Not only is the sale o...

Materials and Tools

Group lenses that feature beading and jewelry mediums

Cheap Jewelry Beads and Supplies

Before I got into this jewelry making supplies business, I was a much more unbiased person. I was a hobbyist and I loved whenever I came across a good bargain or a bead store. But in the last year, I had become a bit of a snob. And now, thank goodnes...

Bead Handbook for Jewelry and Crafts

This bead guide offers information about common bead types and where to find them, bead histories, color selection and more. If you love beadwork, jewels, or anything shiny, start your bead collection journey here. Discover how you, too, can join the...

Polymer Clay and PMC

Lenses about sculpting and firing

The Best Tools to Use for Working with Precious Metal Clay

Are you interested in working with PMC or Precious Metal Clay? Not sure what tools or supplies you need to work with PMC? PMC clay is one of the greatest materials to work with. You can be a beginning artist or hobbyist and end up with finished prec...

PMC Metal Clay Tips and Tutorials

Precious Metal Clay is a unique material made up of particles of pure silver or gold mixed in an organic binder. It is available in several forms, but the most popular is the lump clay. Once fired you are left with fine silver or gold. If you are ju...

PMC Metal Clay | Creating Design Motifs

Precious Metal Clay's unique qualities allow artists to create precious metal jewelry in a much faster way using completely different techniques than traditional metalsmithing. The result is highly creative pieces using precious metal alone or in...

The Top 10 Reasons that I Love to Work with PMC

I am an avid fan of Precious Metal Clay, also called PMC, a non-toxic material made by Mitsubishi Corporation. PMC is made of metal particles bound together in an organic binder which acts mostly like ceramic clay in its green state. Then once it is...

PMC Metal Clay | Hollow Beads

Making hollow beads out of Precious Metal Clay is a good way to keep your pieces lighter weight, and use less PMC per piece. That means that the jewelry you end up with would be less expensive to the end user. It also allows you to make much bigger p...

Bead Shopping and Selling

Group lenses about marketing beads and jewelry

How to make money at Craft Shows

Are you a crafter, artisan, or independent consultant that works the show circuit? If so you may be interested in what my lens here is about. No worries, there's no catch or anything like that, just a bit of time on your part and you can do what I di...

The Sage's Cupboard Beaded Jewelry

Handmade beaded jewelry is a popular choice for anyone who wants quality, one of a kind accessories. Buying handmade helps to support local economy, encourage creativity, and ensures that you will always stand out with your own personal style. The S...

Three Fates Design - Handmade Beaded Jewelry and Lampwork Beads

Three Fates Design has long been a dream of mine, to supply the world with beautifully hand beaded jewelry, and now lampwork beads. I would say that I'm known for my cool beaded cuffs. I like to do cartoon characters (Invader Zim is my favorite). Bu...

Handmade Beaded Jewelry

Offering quality designer Handmade Jewelry and Fashionable Merchandise at day-to-day prices! Isabella's Beads offers one of a kind handcrafted jewelry as well as other fashionable merchandise. My individual handmade jewelry collections are truly uni...

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Lenses about beading, bead making and wearable arts are welcome. The main focus of Beads and Jewels is sharing ideas and inspriation for beadwork and jewelry making.

We want to get the word out that original, handmade, beaded crafts are the best you can find!

We also have a place for artists who sell their work, jewelry and beading reviews, and people who just plain love baubles and shinies.

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Our purpose is to teach, inspire and share. To ensure that our group contains lenses of the highest quality, we do have some standards that we wish to maintain.

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