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Beading Blog - thebroadroom.net: Rambles...
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posted by Colleen Shirazi,
February 7, 2007
at 11:05 PM (Pacific)
Lessee, I finished both the jade and pearl bracelet and the necklace. I'll have a pic soon, I tried taking a few pics today and they were all out of focus and I didn't have time to take more.
Those Artbeads.com crimps are so good it's scary. The base metal ones I used before, you had to press pretty hard to get them firmly closed. But these, you press only lightly and they're tight as a drum. You have to keep that in mind. I started pressing one today (I double crimped the necklace) and then tried to move it down a bit...couldn't really do it. Once you start pressing, it's fixed.
I think one reason I find it difficult to make jewelry has to do with me never really owning jewelry. i.e., my idea of buying jewelry tended to be based on what I could afford at the time...not on what I actually wanted to wear.
Now, the cost of the components is not the same factor. If you added up the cost of materials, even given that I don't get bulk discounts and don't have a resellers license, there is no comparison. You can buy a nice vermeil clasp with a small (not tiny) ruby or sapphire in it for less than thirty dollars. If you wanted to make 18K gold jewelry, you could do that too (of course the cost would be steeper, again no comparison to buying readymade 18K jewelry).
Now, if I had a strong sense of what I wanted all along, it would be more a matter of copying just that.
Oh well, everyone has to start somewhere.Labels: beading notes
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