Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Tips about Wholesale Beads on a Budget

Today, under the influence of negative effects of economy, more and more jewelry makers and jewelry businessmen are thinking about how to keep on their jewelry design or improve their business. In fact, the answer is very simpler—wholesale beads on a budget.

Of course, many people know this phrase, but some of them may not know it clearly.

Painted Acrylic Beads, Mixed color

Painted Acrylic Beads, Mixed color

How to Wholesale Beads on a Budget?

First, you need to find a reputable jewelry beads wholesale supplier. Jewelry beads wholesale stores, both offline stores and online stores, are available in many countries. You may find a jewelry beads wholesale store in your local city. And at the same time, you will find that their items are limited. You need more other items and findings, even tools. What can you do then? Search what you need on the internet, and you will find you have a wide range of selection, even if with the same item. As there are a number of jewelry beads wholesale online stores, you need to compare some of them and choose one or two as your regular suppliers.

Second, look over your current spending budget and decide how much you would like to spend for beads. You also need to know what you need indeed clearly. Keep all of your receipts and record all of your purchases in a notebook that will be used just for your hobby or business.

Plating Acrylic Beads, AB Color, Round

Plating Acrylic Beads, AB Color, Round

Third, wholesale more jewelry beads during promotion. Today, more and more jewelry stores will offer promotion. For example, PandaHall will have a promotion which up to 65% discount off each month. To many jewelry makers and jewelry businessmen, it is a good chance to wholesale beads on a budget. About the promotional items, some are hot sales or some are new arrivals or some are clearance sale. No matter what they are, find what you need, and wholesale them. About the normally used jewelry findings and beads, I would like to say wholesale more to stock at this time to save more money.

Gemstone Beads Strands, Natural Agate

Gemstone Beads Strands, Natural Agate

Four, sign up for E-mail newsletters from your favorite supplier. Lost of online beads stores will offer weekly, bi-weekly or monthly newsletters. You will easily get the information about their new arrivals, announce sales and special promotions on their items.

At last, I would say buying more beads a time to save shipping fee is another method to wholesale beads on budget. Some suppliers even can offer free shipping to some countries, like PandaHall.com

Sunday, February 26, 2012

2012 Fashion Trend—Add Craft Beads on Feather Earrings

Jewelry beads, craft beads, jewelry findings, wires, pliers and etc which are familiar to jewelry makers and jewelry businessmen. Nowadays, those jewelry materials are available anywhere. Everyone can purchase the same jewelry materials easily. How can you use the same or similar materials to create different designs? Feather earrings are a big trend of fashion jewelry in 2012. I am sure many jewelry makers will grasp this chance. How can you stand out of them? Adding some craft beads on the feather earrings will be a fabulous idea.

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Craft Style, Mixed Shapes

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Craft Style, Mixed Shapes

In 2012, feather earrings are come back. Oversize is a symbol of fashion jewelry this year. The feathers are lightweight, colorful and long, so that they become one of the new favorites of2012’s fashion. While, creating normal feather earrings can not stand at the top of fashion. You can add some craft beads to decoration the feathers, which will let your earrings become the spotlight. About these craft beads, they are available in different materials, for example, crystal, glass, acrylic, gems, resin, shell, pearls, metal and etc. They are also come in a pallet of colors and various shapes. You can easily find what you need for your designs easily. Here I will share a simple design about feather earrings with craft beads with you.

Fashion Feather Earring, with Crystal

Fashion Feather Earring, with Crystal

Spring is a green and colorful season. You can get the inspiration of colors from this beautiful season. Many people like to wear turquoise necklace or bracelets. If you don’t want to wear turquoise earrings or just want to change them for another material, a pair of turquoise feather earrings with craft beads will be very suitable. Turquoise feathers with fancy patterns, blue crystal beads–they are fancy combinations. They colors and patterns are matchable with the turquoise necklace or bracelet. Although, the feathers are lightweight, but they are oversized enough, which is suitable for the fashion trend of this year. What is more, adding craft beads on these earrings will let them look more fashion and elegant.

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Craft Style

Colorful Acrylic Beads, Craft Style

Craft beads come in various materials, colors, shapes and sizes. You have a wide range of selection for your designs. About the feathers, some are used with their natural colors, some are dyed. You can easily find them in various colors, patterns and styles (from classic to exotic) if you search them on the internet, for there are tens of thousands of jewelry online stores. I like to use PandaHall craft beads as they are cheap but have high quality.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Tips about How to Make Beads Necklaces

More and more people like to make jewelry, and beads necklacesare loved deeply by them. Do you want to get a unique bead necklace? You have two options: buy it or make it yourself.

About Buying Beads Necklaces

You can them from both jewelry online stores and offline stores. If you just need or several pieces for different styles, you can buy them from your local offline stores or online retail stores. If you need more and want to get a wide range of selection, jewelry wholesale online stores will be your wise choice. As we all know that there are tens of thousands jewelry online stores all over the world. You can easily find what you like and desired ones. While, don’t forget to compare their items, prices and services when you choose suppler for you.

Glass Pearl Strands, with Alloy Lobster Claw

Glass Pearl Strands, with Alloy Lobster Claw

About Making Beads Necklaces in Person

You can make your own unique beaded necklace. Yes, there is no need to doubt. This option is more fun, but can be challenging, especially if it is your first time. However, if you are interested, you will get a great motivator. Here I will give you a quick tutorial to design the perfect beads necklace.

Necklace, Glass and Cat Eye, Brass Magnetic Clasp

Necklace, Glass and Cat Eye, Brass Magnetic Clasp

About making jewelry, beads necklaces are definitely the easiest necklaces to get started with making. To start, you need to purchase some beads necklaces supplies first. Wires, cheap beads (or discount beads) are the really only needed jewelry materials for your first design. Start with those cheap beads to learn with then move onto more expensive gems once you have the hang of it. No need to waste money when you starting out, in case you mess it up the first time.

Necklace, Glass Beads, Green Aventurine

Necklace, Glass Beads, Green Aventurine

Let’s start to make a necklace. The materials you need are some wires, jewelry beads, two crimp beads and a clasp. Cut off the wire; please make sure the length is longer than you will need as you will need it to attach the clasp. String the beads onto the middle of the wire in the pattern you want. Add the crimp beads at each end of your necklace. Add one part of clasp, and then string the wire back through the crimp bead and use a plier to press strongly on the crimp bead. Add the other part of clasp by the same method on the other end. A handmade beads necklace is finished. Sounds easy, isn’t it? You may meet some problems during you make your first or two designs, but it doesn’t matter. Do more practice, and you will do better. At last, I would say you can purchase your beading materials from PandaHall.com if you are not sure which one you should choose. I have purchased all my materials from it since 2004.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Gets Art Beads to Make Your Own Jewelry

If you love arts and handmade crafts, you will definitely like art beads. Art beads contain glass beads, lampwork beads, wood beads, acrylic beads and so on. Handmade jewelry is becoming vastly popular amongst cosmopolitan men and women as an increasingly affordable choice to compliment their day to day wardrobe as well as to accentuate formal dress. As such, beading and jewelry making has become an extremely popular hobby or home business for many inspired artisans looking to make beautiful jewelry for all occasions.

Flat Oval Yellow Resin Cabochons

Flat Oval Yellow Resin Cabochons

Beading is one of the newest styles when it is about designing jewelry. More and more people run to the art of beading for leisure as well as a business venture while they see the excellent option which a fun and lucrative beading project can bring. The various models are highly sought after by many and more and more people are happy to invest their money on this sort of jewelry.

Those days you see many women using the earrings with various art beads decorations. Do you want to make your own beading earrings? Making your own earrings is not a difficult thing as long as you know the following two simple steps.

Handmade Lampwork Beads, Rondelle

Handmade Lampwork Beads, Rondelle

First you need to know clearly what style of earrings you want to make. You need to prepare your materials according to your designs. The basic materials you need including pins, earring hooks, pliers and art beads. You will need to experiment with several styles and colors to see how you want your pieces to look if you are not sure. If you have some spacer beads, you can add them between your beads till you are satisfied with the look of your designs. You need to utilize a pair of round nose pliers to bend the pins as a loop if you use a pin to string the beads. A simple earring is finished after you attached the simple loop onto the earring hook. If you use wire to make a large ring to string beads on it, you also need a plier to cut off the rest wire and make an end loop to attach the ring on the hook after you stringed the beads on it.

Handmade Lampwork Beads, Evil Eyes

Handmade Lampwork Beads, Evil Eyes

In fact, you can also make your own necklaces and bracelets if you have known the basic techniques well. I like handmade jewelry and jewelry making. I like art beads because they are ever-changing. All my art beads and jewelry findings are purchased from a leadingChinabeads, findings and gems online wholesaler—PandaHall.com. And it has become my regular suppler already.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Why People Love Turquoise Beads So Much

Turquoise gems have been utilized for ornamental functions for tens of hundreds of years, and these days, they are renowned as the precious stones applied in the appealing jewelry pieces. Extreme blue turquoises beads are the high-prized, but are much less available than the green gems. A few blue ones may lose color to green ones with time since they are usually uncovered to sun light.

Jewelry making now leads a hot trend in people’s daily life. More and more from all over the world join in this trend now. When it comes into jewelry making, jewelry beads should be the first material which comes into people’s mind. Turquoise beads—can never be missed by people. Why people love those beads so much?

Natural Turquoise Beads

Natural Turquoise Beads

Turquoise beads are regarded as one of the oldest gemstones. Turquoise has been found in 5,000-year-old Egyptian tombs and the Tibetans used it as currency centuries ago. Most turquoise originates fromBurmaand is carved inChinatoday. This gem is soft and opaque. Its color is ranging from blue-green to yellow-green with grey, black or brown veining.

Gemstone Strands, Yellow Turquoise

Gemstone Strands, Yellow Turquoise

Turquoise is the birthstone for December and an astrological stone for Aquarius and Sagittarius. They are well known as the “Stone of Success”. Many people prefer to turquoise jewelry for they believe that turquoise beads can bring them success and victory. At all times turquoise was worn as protection of ward off the influence of evil. Wearing such jewelry is also recommended against depression. The bright and happy colors supposedly bring self-confidence to subdued personalities, and are also popular as tokens of friendship, bringing faithfulness and stability to relationships. As one of the ancient gemstones, turquoise beads have been regarded as the holy stones in many religions and cultures. In Western cultures, it is the gemstone for the 11th wedding anniversary.

Gemstone Beads Strands, Synthetic Turquoise

Gemstone Beads Strands, Synthetic Turquoise

Turquoise beads are produced by many countries, such asIran,Sinai,Chinaand etc. Well, those beads from different places have different appearance. For example, Chinese howlite turquoise beads are usually greener than American turquoise beads. Actually,Chinais one of the famous producing places of turquoise beads. That is why most turquoise beads for jewelry making are produced fromChina. And all my gems beads are purchased from PandaHall.com—a leadingChinabeads, findings and gems online market.

Turquoise jewelry is still very hot. Turquoise beads are great choices for making necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings and many other fashion accessories. You can create those jewelry designs with turquoise beads only. At the same time, they can be mixed and matched with other jewelry beads very well, for example, crystal beads, glass beads, lampwork beads, metal beads, European style beads, pearls and so on. The combination is wide as long as you have unlimited inspirations.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Jewelry Ideas with Coral Beads

Corals are natural organic substances that have been in existence since prehistoric times. Coral beads have been prized in jewelry making for a thousand years now. Why they are widely used in jewelry making and so popular with people in all ages? The mystique there is in corals are considered to be healing in nature most specially for women and children.

Synthetic Coral Beads, Buddha

Synthetic Coral Beads, Buddha

Many jewelry designers like to use coral beads to create jewelry pieces. These lovely beads ranging in colors like a reddish orange to a pinkish shade, color “coral” has now even found its place in contemporary jewelry design and clothing. Its attractive color is perfect for jewelry and other accessories. It is no wonder then that jewelry made with coral beads still fascinates designers as well as attracts jewelry lovers of all age groups.

Synthetical Coral Beads Strands

Synthetical Coral Beads Strands

Want to create some super coral beads jewelry but have no idea? I’d like to share some simple but great ideas with you. The first one is elastic coral bracelet. The materials are white coral beads (10pcs), orange coral beads (10pcs) and elastic cord. About those beads, they are about25mmlong,9mmwide,8mmthick and with1.5mmhole. Each bead has four holes—two holes on each ends. The steps are very simple. Use elastic cord to string one white bead and one orange bead, and string all the rest beads at the same order. Cut off the cord and tie off a knot. In order to let the bracelet look clean, you can hide the knot into the hole of beads. A beautiful coral beads bracelet is finished. You may think the size is a little large. Well, it is what we need, for the oversized design is the trend of fashion jewelry in 2012.

Natural Coral Beads, Dyed

Natural Coral Beads, Dyed

Like exotic necklace? Here I will share another design with you—coral beads and Tibetan style beads necklace. Materials: coral beads (5pcs), Tibetan style beads (4pcs), 8pcs silver bead caps, 6pcs natural Chrysocolla beads, black cotton wax cord, and alloy lobster claw clasp. Use two strands of wax cords to make three knots first, then string a Tibetan style bead, tie off more three knots and add the second Tibetan bead. String a Chrysocolla bead, a coral bead, a bead cap, a Chrysocolla bead and a bead cap again. String the rest coral beads, bead caps and Chrysocolla beads at the same order, and string the rest two Tibetan style beads like the first two ones. Cut off the wax cord with your needed length and attach them onto the lobster clasp. An exotic coral beads necklace is finished.

I am sure I will have your fantastic jewelry designs. If you need more information about jewelry designs, I’d like to recommend you to have a look at PandaHall’s Professional Facebook Page.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Make Super Jewelry with Brass Beads

Brass beads have now become one of the trendiest and stylish decorative and jewelry items. As the name suggests brass beads are made by brass which is an alloy of copper mixed with zinc. Brass, a bright golden metal is widely used for decorative purposes. Antique brass beads are used for the decoration of picture frames, candle holders, statues, napkin rings, show pieces and artificial jewelry. Today, the vintage style jewelry has played an important role in fashion jewelry. More and more people like to create or wear vintage style jewelry. And the brass beads are widely used in vintage style jewelry making.

Brass Beads, Round, Platinum Color

Brass Beads, Round, Platinum Color

About the brass beads, they come in a pallet of colors, for example, silver plated, gold plated, red copper plated, antique bronze plated, antique gold plated, antique silver plated and so on. All the antique colors are the best choice for the vintage style. Those beads are designed in various shapes and patterns, such as birds, flowers, tube, round, hearts, leaves, tree, troll, square, cube, oval and so on. Many of them have fancy patterns. The oversized jewelry pieces are the fashion this year. So if you want to create some eye-catching vintage style jewelry pieces, the brass beads and pendants in large sizes are the best choice.

Brass Beads, Round, Silver

Brass Beads, Round, Silver

I have made a vintage charm bracelet with antique gold plated brass beads and religious crosses. It is very fashion and eye-catching. Do you like to make a similar one? I am glad to share my design with you. The materials I have used contain round brass beads, several different designed religious crosses, a round religious pendant, some black and orange round acrylic beads, small clear bicone acrylic beads, a brass chain, an antique gold lobster clasp, some pins and jumprings. Measure your wrist first and cut off the chain with suitable length. Use headpins to string one clear bead, one orange bead and one brass bead together and attach them onto the chain at average distance. Use head pins and eye pins to string four black acrylic beads together and attach them on the chain too. Use jumprings to attach those religious crosses on chain at suitable places and attach the pendant at the middle of the bracelet. The last step is attaching the lobster clasp. An attractive vintage bracelet is finished.

Brass Crimp Beads, Rondelle

Brass Crimp Beads, Rondelle

You can choose some other materials to create a different bracelet, even necklace. And purchase the jewelry making materials is not a difficult and complex thing. I purchased all the materials from PandaHall.com—aChinabeads, findings and gems online market. It is recommended by two of my friends. I have purchased several time there already, and satisfied with both its items and services.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Top 3 Beading Threads for Beading Jewelry

Beading thread is used to string or sew beads into jewelry or accessories or onto garments as embellishment. They are essential jewelry materials for beading jewelry making and available in different types, such as elastic cord, cotton wax cord, crystal thread, elastic wire, silk thread, leather cord, nylon thread, seed beads thread and so on. Choose correct thread for your beading project is very important. Here I would like to share some useful information about several typical threads with you.

Nylon Thread

Nylon thread is the modern way of bead stringing. Nylon does not fray as much, or stretch as much, as the silk, for it is a synthetic fiber. High performance nylon does not stretch that is why nylon is more popular than silk nowadays. When knotting long stone bead necklaces, nylon works very well. Nylon can also be purchased on long rolls or on cards with attached needles.

Nylon Thread, Black, about 1mm in diameter

Nylon Thread, Black, about 1mm in diameter

Silk Thread

Silk threads are used mostly for pearl, small mineral, or gem beads, especially for those with small holes. In fact, silk thread is the traditional thread for stringing pearl. It still remains very popular for stringing pearls as the other stringing materials can hurt the pearls. But be aware that silk threads then to fray and stretch. And silk will break down within 3-5 years hence anything strung with silk threads have to be restrung. However, it is not advisable to use silk thread with glass beads. This thread can come on cards, sometimes with a useful integral needle. This is also described as “pre-threaded” which you may come across when you are looking to buy. You can also buy them in spools.

Satin Ribbon

Satin Ribbon

Leather Cord

Leather cord is great to use for the heavy necklaces that use stone donuts. Plus, it is attractive enough to be incorporated into part of the bead design with out having to worry about covering it up with beads. This cord comes in all kinds of colors, so you don’t have to just use black or brown any more. It is also available in various sizes too.

Genuine Leather Jewelry Cord

Genuine Leather Jewelry Cord

No matter what kind of beading jewelry you want to create and what kind of beading thread you need, you can easily find it or them from jewelry stores. I would like to suggest you to purchase your beading threads and other jewelry materials from wholesale online stores if you need a lots. Because you can get a wide range of selection and much low wholesale prices if you can find a reputable large wholesale company. And PandaHall.com will be a good choice for it is a leadingChinabeads, findings and gems online wholesaler. It is a Squaredverified seller.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Have a Dazzling Spring with Swarovski Crystal Beads

Spring is coming to us, and the romantic day—Valentine’s Day is around the corner. What kind of fashion would you like to use to start your spring? No double that the Swarovski crystal beadsare the best choice. They are brilliant, shining and dazzling. Those beads come in a palette of colors which ensure you are able to change colors easily and frequently.

Spring is a warm, flowery, fragrant, shining, bright and happy season. It is also a romantic season and perfect time to present gift for your girl and the jewelry gift is the most fashion and warm gift. Every girl like beauty and pursue fashion which is beyond all doubt. Necklaces, bracelets and earrings, no matter what she likes, you can easily make an amazing one for her as long as you create it by your heart. If you want to add pizazz to your necklace, bracelet, earrings or pins, consider Swarovski crystals. You can buy Swarovski crystals in a palette of colors, shapes and luster to fashion into pins, earrings, necklaces and bracelets and rings.

Swarovski Crystal Beads, Bicone

Swarovski Crystal Beads, Bicone

There is also need to worry if you are a newer to jewelry making, here I will share some simple ideas about making Swarovski crystal beads necklaces with you. Although designs are simple, they are very elegant, beautiful, fashion and can be worn in every occasion. The first one is delicate pink crystal and pearl bracelet. Both pearl beads and crystal beads are the symbols of elegant and loved deeply by women. They are the perfect combinations for each woman and as a gift for Valentine’s Day. The materials you need contain4mmlight rose Swarovski crystal beads (about 29pcs) with2mmbutton white freshwater pearls (about 29pcs) and crystal thread. The diameter of this bracelet is about 7 inches. The steps are very simple: string a Swarovski beads and a pearl beads on the thread, and string all the rest beads by the same order. The last step is cut off the rest thread and ties a knot. In order to let this bracelet is clearer; you can hide the knot in the hole of crystal beads.

Swarovski Crystal Beads

Swarovski Crystal Beads

The second design is for your reference if you or your girl like colorful bracelet. The supplies you need to prepare are4mmlight blue, light yellow, tanzanite, pacific opal, aquamarine Swarovski crystals,6mmclear and light sapphire Swarovski crystals,3mmround silver metal beads, Tibetan style flower spacers and lobster clasp. About the quantity of each bead and order of string those beads, they are depend on your design and style. Stringing all the beads on the wire and attach the two ends of the lobster clasp. A beautiful, colorful and elegant Swarovski crystal beads bracelet is finished. Every woman will fall in love with it, I am sure.

Swarovski Crystal Beads

Swarovski Crystal Beads

Swarovski crystal beads are available widely in the world now. You can easily find plenty of them in both offline and online jewelry stores. Well, to reduce the cost of your jewelry making business or hobby, purchase them and other jewelry materials from reliable wholesale online stores like PandaHall.com will be a wise choice.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Valentine’s Day Lampwork Beads Jewelry Making Ideas

Valentine’s Day is a day for saying I Love You. Have you prepared well for the coming romantic day? If no, what are you waiting for? Why not choose some beautiful valentine lampwork beads to create some one of a kind jewelry pieces in person for her? As we all know that fashion jewelry is one of women’s favorite, so I am sure your special Valentine’s gift will touch her heart.

Handmade Lampwork Beads Strands

Handmade Lampwork Beads Strands

Well, you may ask what kind of lampwork beads you should choose if you are a beginner of jewelry making or just have no ideas about that. In fact, it is very simple. In different countries, the color which stands for love may be different. For example, in some countries, red is the symbol of passion, so the people believe red roses and some other red things can express their love correctly. While, some people in other countries prefer to use white or purple. Of course, you can also choose her favorite colors to make this special gift. No matter which color means love and romantic in your country, you will easily find the lampwork beads with perfect colors in various shapes and sizes.

Handmade Frosted Lampwork Beads

Handmade Frosted Lampwork Beads

A gift can touch a woman’s heart is a successful gift. Except choosing from colors, you also need to consider about the shapes of those beads. Heart shaped lampwork beads will be the first choice without doubt. They are the symbols of your love to her from braking hot heart. Heart shaped beads are available with different patterns, for example, with strips in different colors, with flowers in different colors, with dots in different colors, with different fruits and etc. And of course, other shapes will be good choice as long as you have great designs.

Handmade Gold Sand Lampwork Beads

Handmade Gold Sand Lampwork Beads

Someone may ask why I should choose lampwork beads to create a Valentine’s Day jewelry gift. The answer is very simple–all the lampwork beads are handmade which means each lampwork bead is unique. That is to say your handmade lampwork beads jewelry gift is one of a kind in the world, just likes your love to her. You can create the gift with lampwork beads only, but can also mix and match them with other jewelry beads together to create different effects. Handmade lampwork beads are available in many countries, but the quality and prices are not the same. PandaHall.com can offer you quality beads at low prices as it is a Squaretrade Verified seller. No matter for bracelet, necklace or earrings, you can easily find what you desired there.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Jewelry Making Ideas with Metal Beads for Valentine’s Day

The annual romantic holiday for lovers—Valentine’s Day is around the corner. What kind of special gift can touch a woman’s heart? The key is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time. Make a special jewelry gift with metal beads on such a romantic day for such a special woman to you will be a perfect idea, I am sure.

Brass Pendants, Cross Sword

Brass Pendants, Cross Sword

Jewelry pieces are widely available in the market now, both costly jewelry and fashion jewelry. About the costly designed jewelry, they are the symbols of elegant (or beautiful), expensive and status, they are costly, but they are not the unique. Everyone who can afford it can own it. While, if you make a one kind of a jewelry piece for your girl, even if it is very cheap, I am sure she will love both you and your gift very much. Metal beads are a wonderful choice for creating such a special gift, for it is not expensive, but have wide range of selection to create different styles and effects singly or with other jewelry supplies. Here I would like to one of my jewelry ideas with metal beads for Valentine’s Day with you.

Aluminum Beads, Valentine Gift Beads

Aluminum Beads, Valentine Gift Beads

Handmade Flower Metal Beads Jewelry Set

Vintage style jewelry is loved deeply by some women. If your girl is one of them, making a set of vintage style flower metal beads jewelry for her will be the key to touch her heart. The materials you will need include 3pcs3cmdiameter black flower beads, 2pcs1.5cmdiameter flower beads, 8pcs gold seed beads, 4pcs silver spacer beads, 5pcs small rhinestones, black wire, silver necklace chain, silver earring hooks, glue, round-nose pliers and hole punch. Steps: 1. Drill a hole on two petals that are on a straight line. 2. Glue the small rhinestones one the middle hole of flower beads. 3. Use black wire to string a seed bead, a spacer bead, a seed bead, and make a loop on each end of the wire. Repeat the steps to make 3 more. 4. Use the black wire loops to link those beads with 21.5cmflower beads and 13cmflower beads together. The order is like this: beads link,1.5cmflower metal bead, beads link,3cmflower metal beads, beads link,1.5cmflower metal bead and beads link. 5. Attach this long link to the silver necklace chain. 6. Attach a heart shaped alloy clasp as ending. 7. Attach the rest 23cmflower metal beads on the silver earring hooks by round-nose plier. Till now, a set of handmade elegant metal beads jewelry has been finished. It is very special and enough to express your love to her, right? Of course, you also can make a bracelet with those beads and flowers to expand your set. You can also choose some other metal beads, such as aluminum rose beads.

Plated Box Clasps, Valentine Craft Findings

Plated Box Clasps, Valentine Craft Findings

This idea is just for your reference. I am sure you must have some other amazing ideas. If so, the other important thing to you is purchasing good jewelry materials. After shared a jewelry idea with you, I’d like to share a good supplier of jewelry materials with you. PandaHall.com, as a leadingChinabeads, jewelry and gems online wholesaler, can offer you more than 200,000 items at low wholesale prices. Hope you enjoy both your creation for your lover and such a romantic day.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

The Relative Merits of Two Kinds of Jewelry Stores

Jewelry is definitely a decoration that every woman loves. So there is no surprise that fashion jewelry market is growing stronger, and the number of jewelry stores, both offline stores and online stores, is growing larger and larger. While, there is a trend that jewelry makers and jewelry businessmen prefer to purchase their jewelry materials from online stores, and which will lasting for a long time, I am sure.

Why they prefer to purchase jewelry materials from online stores? Here I would like to show you the disadvantage of offline stores and the advantage of online stores for you, which helps you know the reason clearly.

free register

free register

Disadvantages of Purchasing from Offline Stores

1, Limited Selection: as we all know that almost all the offline stores are retail stores. They have limited selection for you as their have no manufacturers or factories. Some of those stores even only can offer you one kind of beads.

2, High Prices: as those stores are retail stores, they are unable to offer you low wholesale prices. No doubt that you have to spend much high retail prices to get materials from those stores as they have to earn money which may not a little.

3, Inconveniences: As you only can get limited selection from stores, you have to go to several retail jewelry stores, even more, to check and buy the materials for your designs. It is a time-wasting work.

promotion beads

promotion beads

Advantages of Purchasing from Online Stores

1, Wide Range of Selection: There are tens of thousands of online jewelry stores. You can easily get wide range of selection for all kinds of jewelry materials as long as you can find a large and reputable jewelry wholesaler. And you can easily enjoy one-stop shopping there, which helps you save a lot of time.

2, Much Low Wholesale Prices: Most online jewelry wholesale stores have their manufacturers or factories, which make sure they can offer you much low wholesale prices. You can spend a little money to get as many jewelry materials as possible.

Synthetical Coral Beads Strands

Synthetical Coral Beads Strands

3, Conveniences: There is no need to drive to different places to check and purchase jewelry materials. You can check any jewelry stores all over the world at any time and compare their prices, quality, services and etc easily as long as you can surf the internet. You never need to drive or fly to their companies or stores to check and purchase what you need. You just need to check on their stores and contact with their customer service teams if you have any question.