Show Your True Colours With Beads

If you have heard the saying "you are what you wear" then beads would certainly tell how fantastical, romantic, fun loving, adaptable and versatile person you are. Beads are a great way to add zing and spice to your look and style. You can create your own style statement with various kinds of beads, or you can simply mix and match things to put forth a sizzling combination together with an easy going attitude.

Beads are the best way to define and complement your style, your dress and all kinds of occasion. You can wear beads almost everywhere. Apart from your ear pieces and necklace, you can wear beads around your wrists; in bracelets; in armlets; in anklets, and also in your belt – a loose loop around your waist defines your slender waist and also it looks quite nice. You can also add beads to your exquisite jewellery, like the tiaras.

Not just as jewellery, you can also put beads in your clothes and in your accessories like bags and purses to make them look cool, trendy and friendly. Beads in your accessories always give you a young look and feel, despite your real age. It also shows that you are in tune with times and passionately follow trends. You can pep up any simple, ordinary looking bag or outfit by adding a few beads with the help of ex-beading accessories.

Beads can be simple and non-expensive. And at the same time there are those beads which are precious and, therefore, cost a little more than others. You have to know which beads to wear in different kinds of occasions. Beads are great when you want to catch up with friends; then there are beads that can be worn to the office; and also there are those gorgeous looking precious beads jewellery that are meant for parties and high social gatherings.

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How to Combine Beads to Make a Necklace

Most women l-o-v-e jewelry. But you jewelry lovers, have ever stopped to ask yourselves just what went into creating that beautiful necklace you saw in the shop the other day? Every now and then someone asks me: Well, how do you decide what beads to use and how to put them together? Well truthfully, I don’t have any fixed formula, but there are a few things that I always take into consideration before I actually start making a piece of jewelry. These include: color, type of bead/gemstone, shape, texture, type of findings to use, and the *friendliness* of the beads.

I don’t lay out the beads on a beading board or towel, but I do try to draw a mental picture of the finished jewelry and I try to visualize it around a neck (any neck). I mentioned *friendliness* as one of my considerations. For example, what I mean by this is that beads such as haematite (it’s actually an iron ore) are arrogant, while pearls are snobs. What do I mean by this? Haematite (in my opinion) do not like to share the limelight with other beads. They have a tendency to drown out other beads because of their color and the way they shine. When I make a necklace using haematite, rather than combine it with other beads, I would rather use haematite in different sizes and/or shapes to make the necklace because they just refuse to cooperate with other beads. Pearls on the other hand, have their own issues. Real pearls are classics. They are stunning and they know it. Pearls are one of the few types of beads with this innate ability to transform even the most mundane outfit into an epitome of elegance. For this reason, pearls will not allow their image to be insulted by the presence of *lesser beads”*. It’s not all negative though, as pearls will agree to share their status with other beads and gemstones such as swarovski crystals which they feel are of the same status. I’ve found that genuine pearls and genuine swarovski crystals make a good team. Swarovski crystals though pricey, are the nice guys. They’re friendly beads (crystals) and don’t have the hang-ups that pearls and haematite do. As a result, they’ll work with *anybody*.

This is a facetious drop in the ocean as far as explaining the elements that make up the design of a necklace or other piece of jewelry. There are some basic rules and techniques which one does need to conform to in order to end up with a piece of jewelry that people are willing to spend money on.

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Loads Of Fun With Craft Beads

Ah, the joys of craft beads, big beads and little beads, made of glass, plastic or wood...no matter which, beading is a load of fun for both children and adults. Beadwork can be simple or extravagant, cheap or expensive, depending on what kind of supplies you purchase and what you're intending to design. No doubt about it though, working with beads provides hours of enjoyment.

Most types of beadwork today are incorporated into jewelry designs, such as earrings, bracelets and necklaces, but craft beads are also used in a variety of home décor designs and sculptures that are created with macramé, yarns or Native American crafts such as dream catchers and medicine wheels.

Throughout the history of mankind, beads have been used as a form of personal adornment, as money, as trading goods and as a way to decorate possessions and homes. Beads can be utilized in more crafts that most people imagine, and the number of ways beads can enhance a project is only limited as to their size and materials.

To work with craft beads, most people need a few simple tools, including round and flat nosed pliers, wire cutters and various types and sizes of tweezers. To attach beads to one another or to other surfaces, a crafter will need some type of wire, usually called jeweler's wire, in addition to a crimping tool.

If you don't care to use wire for your craft beads projects, many people like to use silk threads that come in a variety of colors and thicknesses. Nylon or synthetic threads are also commonly found in the tool kits of those working with beads, as does a product called French wire.

If you're interested in making jewelry, the best thing to do is to pick up a book at your local library or bookstore and learn the lingo, the tools and the methods of creating beautiful and useful designs that people will be proud to wear.

You may also need to purchase design and layout boards for working with jewelry, as well as a variety of clasps, hooks, earring studs and backings as well as various kinds of wire. Drawers to organize your craft beads and tools are also handy to have, and can make your bead designing endeavors a lot more organized and orderly.

For others, working with beads isn't so involved. Creating Native American crafts requires small glass beads, if you're going to create designs on a loom, which then can be sewn to moccasins or clothing, but larger, plastic or glass beads are also used in the creating of beautiful dream catchers and medicine wheels that are extremely popular in the Midwestern and southern United States.

Craft beads can be cheap or expensive, depending on the materials the beads themselves are made out of, as well as the quantity that you are purchasing. Some more expensive beads are made out of pearls, bone and horns, while others are made of gemstones or organic materials. Craft beads are definitely loads of fun to work with, no matter what you're designing.