Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Purchase Freshwater Beads to Create Stunning Jewelry

Freshwater beads contain freshwater pearl beads and freshwater shell beads. For hundreds of years, the only people who wore pearls were royalty and nobles, and later, the fabulously wealthy who could afford them. Today, the good news is that you don’t have to spend a small fortune to get beautiful pearls to use in your bead-weaving and jewelry making projects.

About the freshwater pearl beads, they are the result of irritation in the soft tissue of a mollusk. Slimy water creatures aside, pearls are as beautiful and fascinating as any gemstone that many people have even seen, and certainly hold more allure for some people than other types of semi-precious beads. Freshwater pearl beads are now available in dozens of different shapes beyond the traditional round and off-round. Freshwater shell beads come in various shapes and are dyed in different colors too. No matter what kind of freshwater beads you would like to get, you will easily find them from a large jewelry beads wholesaler such as PandaHall.

Here I would like to share some simple but stunning, elegant jewelry designs of freshwater beads with you.

Natural Freshwater Pearl Beads Strands

Natural Freshwater Pearl Beads Strands

Pearl Drop Earrings

This design is very suitable for beginners.

Materials: 2 white freshwater pearl beads; 2 silver beads; 2 closed oval links of chains; 2 sterling silver headpins; 2 earring hooks.

Steps: Slide each bead onto a headpin, and make a closed wire loop at the top. At the top of the last bead, using round nose pliers to create a loop in the wire, and slide the oval chain link onto the loop before closing the loop and fastening the beads to the link. Using your pliers to open the loop at the bottom of your earring hook and slide your link chain onto the earring. Close the loop and your earring is completed. Repeat for the second one. A pair of simple, but elegant freshwater pearl beads earrings are finished.

Glass Pearl Earrings, with Glass Beads and Brass Earring Hooks

Glass Pearl Earrings, with Glass Beads and Brass Earring Hooks

Freshwater Shell Bracelets

Materials: 5 creamy freshwater shell flower beads (have two holes at edges); 10pcs rhinestone links; 1 iron lobster claw clasp; 1 strand of extended chain.

Steps: Adding rhinestone links on each hole of flower beads (10pcs rhinestone links for 5 flower beads). Attaching two rhinestone links from two individual flower beads on the lobster claw clasp and then linking other rhinestone links together to make a circle. The last step is to add the extended chain to the jump ring of lobster claw clasp. A elegant bracelet is finished. You can also use some jump rings to link the rhinestone links together.

Freshwater Shell Bracelets, Rhinestone

Freshwater Shell Bracelets, Rhinestone

They are very stunning and elegant, but simple to make, right? You can also have a look at PandaHall’s Official Facebook if you would like to get more inspirations and ideas about jewelry making. Just purchase some jewelry beads and findings to make your own gorgeous jewelry.

Monday, November 21, 2011

How to Use and Where to Buy Seed Beads

Seed beads are a staple component that can be incorporated into a wide variety of craft and jewelry designs. Seed bead is a genetic term that crafters use to refer to any tiny bead ranging in size from under a millimeter to several millimeters. The most common seed bead size is 11/0 and 12/0, but sizes range from 24/0 to 5/0. The greater the number of the bead size, the smaller the bead, please keeps in mind. They come in translucent, matte, opaque, colorful, and luster finishes as well as silver, copper, or bronze lined colored beads.

6/0 Glass Seed Beads, Silver Lined Round Hole

6/0 Glass Seed Beads, Silver Lined Round Hole

Seed beads are always used to make jewelry. They are extremely versatile. In jewelry making, they can be used as spacers between other beads or as the basis for intricate multi-strand necklaces. They used as “filler” between larger beads or to make intricate designs and patterns. To the beginners, they may be very confused by how to use those beads as they are very small. You need to use needles. Decide what you are going to used the beads for first. Sketch a design of the work. If you are planning o using size 11/0 beads, there are about 12 beads per inch. Figure out how many beads you need for your design. Make sure you use a needle the same size as your bead size. Also, you should get some threads, for example, wire, stretchy threads and fishing lines which work well and come in different sizes. Waxing your thread with bees wax will help strengthen your thread. Bees wax will also help with less tangled-up thread. If you spill your seed beads onto the carpet, you can use a spoon to pick them up.

8/0 Glass Seed Beads, Trans.Colours Rainbow

8/0 Glass Seed Beads, Trans.Colours Rainbow

Many people also like to use bugle beads to make jewelry. While, please don’t be confused them with seed beads. Bugle beads are also very small and delicate in appearance, but are longer than they are thick, creating a tubular shape.

11/0 Glass seed beads, 2cut, Trans

11/0 Glass seed beads, 2cut, Trans

Seed beads are generally available for purchasing from many online wholesale stores with a large range of selection, such as PandaHall.com. Lauren Gross, an experienced jewelry maker, said:” I really love PandaHall’s seed beads and other jewelry materials. They are colorful and quality, but their prices are very reasonable. Seed beads jewelry are very shinny and colorful. They can be very simple, but also can be very complicated. No matter they are simple or complicated, they are beautiful and elegant. If you would like to get quality seed beads at lower prices, I really want to recommend PandaHall to you. You won’t be disappointed.”

Friday, November 18, 2011

Pandora Jewelry—the Best Jewelry Gifts for Women

When you are looking for a gift for your wife or girlfriend on Valentine’s Day or for your mother on Mother’s Day, even for your niece’s college graduation, Pandora jewelry will be your best choice. They are also prefect as holiday gifts for Christmas, Easter, Halloween or Thanksgiving. Pandora jewelry is famous for its uniqueness and vogue. If you sent it to your friend, girlfriend or some one that will become your girlfriend soon, she will be very happy. When woman wear it, it can not only improve her personal taste, but also show her elegance, let her become more charming.

Crystal European Style Beads, Large Hole Beads

Crystal European Style Beads, Large Hole Beads

Pandora jewelry contains Pandora bracelets, Pandora necklaces, Pandora Rings and Pandora Earrings. The essential component for those jewelry pieces are Pandora beads, charms and Pendants. All the components come in various materials, colors and designs, especially the Pandora beads which can be made of glass, gemstone, acrylic, resin, rhinestone, metal, shells & pearls and many others. Pandora beads made of different materials with various colors and designs can make different effects for Pandora jewelry. Those jewelries can be very formal or very life-like; they can be romantic or easygoing. The use of various materials challenges people’s vision continuously. No matter what style are the jewelry, there is one will be suitable for you and suitable for every occasion. Pandora jewelry believes each woman is unique and has special story to tell.

Crystal European Style Beads, Large Hole Beads

Crystal European Style Beads, Large Hole Beads

As one of the most popular fashion jewelry, Pandora jewelry gets the welcome of people, youth or old, men or ladies. One of the most important reason is that people can select each Pandora jewelry optionally, and can be freely combined. You can choose any color you prefer, match each beads perfectly, and them become your own beautiful jewelry. If you want to make one as a jewelry gift, you can choose some special Pandora beads and charms to match her characters. I am sure it would be a wonderful, meaningful and unforgettable gift to her.

Lampwork European Beads, Large Hole Beads

Lampwork European Beads, Large Hole Beads

While to some people who are not good at jewelry making, they may not clear about what colors should use, what kind of beads should choose and how to mix and match them. In fact, there is no need to worry about that. Just purchase some Pandora jewelry from reputable online stores, such as PandaHall.com which can offer you a variety of Pandora jewelry and Pandora components at competitive prices. It is a verified company, so it would give you not only high quality replica Pandora jewelry, Pandora beads, charms and other jewelry supplies, but also the fast shipping with professional customer service. Making Pandora jewelry in person as a gift is a wonderful idea too. It is a good way to create personalized jewelry. Browse on PandaHall and you will find what you desired there.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Personalize Your Jewelry with Large Hole Beads

When we talk about large hole beads, most people will think about Pandora style beads or European style beads. Yes, Pandora style beads is one of the most hottest and popular jewelry beads among today’s beading trends. Pandora style large hole beads come in various materials, such as glass, gemstone, metal and so on.

Crystal European Style Beads, Large Hole Beads

Crystal European Style Beads, Large Hole Beads

These large hole beads are very versatile to be applied to jewelry making and can be strung with a wide range of stringing materials, perfect for stringing over seed-bead strands, chains, thicker design materials, beading on cord and knotted designs. You will easily find these large hole beads are available in various colors, patterns, shapes, materials and the hole sizes.

Large Hole Beads, Alloy European Beads

Large Hole Beads, Alloy European Beads

Lampwork glass beads are a good source of large hole beads. Even on the internet you can expect to find out what the diameter of the hole is before you buy. To the beginners of jewelry making, start with large hole beads is a good choice as they are easily to be stringed. Let us take a Pandora style lampwork beads bracelet for example. The materials you need to prepare are about17.5”snake chain bracelet (Pandora bracelet), four red flower lampwork beads, four silver alloy beads, four antique silver Tibetan style beads, four pink rhinestone beads and one hanging pendant with red high-heeled shoe. All the beads have large hole which is larger than the diameter of Pandora bracelet. Just open the clasp of Pandora bracelet and string all the beads and charm pendant on the bracelet according to your design from one end. You can string them according to this order: red flower lampwork bead, silver alloy bead, antique silver Tibetan style bead, pink rhinestone bead, silver alloy metal bead, red flower lampwork bead, antique silver Tibetan style bead, pink rhinestone bead, red shoe pendant. And you can finish the rest with the same order. And then, close the clasp. This bracelet is finished. It is really easy, right? You can make something similar by changing jewelry beads, pendants, and colors. Personalize your jewelry with large hole beads is such a easy thing. Just have a try.

Lampwork European Beads, Large Hole Beads

Lampwork European Beads, Large Hole Beads

In order to make unique jewelry, you may not satisfied with the limited selection of large hole beads in your local craft stores. So purchasing from jewelry beads wholesale online stores is a wise choice for you because there are tens of thousands of such stores across the world and they can offer you a wide range of selection. As a leadingChinabeads, findings and gems wholesale online market, PandaHall.com won’t disappoint you. It has capability to offer you quality items for various kinds of jewelry supplies and jewelry tools at much lower prices. What is more, there is a tremendous promotion at the beginning of each month, which lasts for two weeks.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The Best Place to Get Discount Wholesale Beads

In order to reduce cost and raise profit, more and more jewelry businessmen and jewelry makers are looking for discount wholesale beads. If you are a jewelry maker, you know how expensive it can be to buy beads from a craft store. Not only are they pricey, but in many cases, you just can’t afford to get everything you need to make enough jewelry to sell before a show. If you want to make beautiful jewelry that you can make to sell, you need discount wholesale beads.

Handmade Lampwork Beads

Handmade Lampwork Beads

Beading is an ancient form of art and ornamentation that continues to pay a role in many cultures around the world. Although beads have always been an element of style, they have also enjoyed periods of extreme popularity. During the most recent bead renaissance, more suppliers are selling a wider variety of beads discount wholesale prices at online stores. However, please keep in mind that not all the suppliers can offer quality items at competitive discount wholesale prices.

Glass Beads Strands, Round

Glass Beads Strands, Round

No doubt that everyone wants to know where can purchase quality discount wholesale beads. Everyone knows that it is impossible to get wholesale prices from retail craft stores, so the only way is purchasing beads from online wholesale stores, just like PandaHall.com—a leading jewelry beads, findings and gems wholesale online market. Once you have found somewhere that you trust to order beads from online, you will very quickly be proud of the results. People love being able to have quality beads but at discount wholesale prices. For anyone who is serious about making jewelry making a lifelong career, you will find that buying wholesale beads is the only way to go for creating handmade, custom jewelry your customers will love but cost you less.

Handmade Porcelain Beads

Handmade Porcelain Beads

Why PandaHall.com is the best place to get discount wholesale beads.

First, PH is a federation of Chinese factories and also the Chinese Small Merchandise Online Market. It offers beads and findings including jade, silver, pearl, gemstone, lampwork glass and crystal items etc. AsChinahas a lot of cheap labors, it is able to offer competitive wholesale prices as a federation.

Second,Chinahas many master workers who are experienced in producing jewelry beads. Therefore, PandaHall can offer quality handmade beads, such as lampwork beads, glass beads, clay beads and so on.

Handmade Lampwork European Beads

Handmade Lampwork European Beads

Third, PH has a special lab with highly trained person to check the lead content in its products so that people from Europe andAmericacan buy with an easy mind. What is more, the test reports for those items are listed on its website.

Tibet Antique Golden Metal Toggle

Tibet Antique Golden Metal Toggle

Fourth, PH has a special logistics center for international business. All the items are treated and packed well there. In addition, it can offer you several international shipping methods for choosing according to your needs.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Choose Correct Jewelry Beads Stones to Create Special Jewelry

Incorporating many beautiful jewelry beads stones found from across the world, beads stones jewelry is among the most popular forms of jewelry. Many people like to wear beads stones jewelry. I am sure most people know that jewelry beads stones come in a myriad of colors, sizes and shapes. While, maybe many of them are not clear about some semi-precious gemstones have special usages to human. Here I would like to share some with you as followed:

16" Round Gemstone Strands

16" Round Gemstone Strands

Black Stones: The spiritual value of black stones will vary depending on the dyed stones they come from. Some people believe any black stone has a power associated with its blackness that intensifies the spiritual values of the gemstones around them. Black stones carving serve as symbols and reminders of a personal belief, wish or value.

Round Amethyst Beads Strands

Round Amethyst Beads Strands

Garnet Beads: Garnet has always been considered insurance for travelers against misfortune. Likewise, some believe that it is useful in warding off bad dreams and as protection from theft. The stone is thought to attract love and soul mates and to enhance creativity.

Jade Beads: Jade is a usually a beautiful green colored precious gemstone. A genuine jade can consist of a single of the two different mineral namely, jadeite or nephrite. It’s been reported to have wide ranging positive properties including relieving insomnia and acts as emotional stabilizer to assist in the release of emotionally based trauma.

Natural Jade Beads, Dyed, Round, Multicolor

Natural Jade Beads, Dyed, Round, Multicolor

Amethyst Beads: Amethyst is a purple-colored, semi-precious stone that is known as a spiritual stone and used for general healing and meditation. It’s said that sleeping with a piece of amethyst beneath one’s pillow promotes intuitive dreams and inspired thought.

Hematite Beads: Hematite is a silvery, shiny opaque stone that almost looks like metal. Hematite is heavy and relatively hard oxide mineral, that constitutes the most important iron ore because of its high iron content (70 percent) and its abundance. Hematite is used to improve relationships. If you need your personal relationship to be better, wear hematite beads jewelry with you always.

Non-magnetic Hematite Beads Strands, Round

Non-magnetic Hematite Beads Strands, Round

Those gemstone beads are not only good for health or bring you other benefits, but also can be used to create beautiful jewelry. Check on PandaHall.com, you will find it offers an extensive collection of jewelry beads stones as well as other jewelry beads. These semi-precious stone beads come in many various styles and shapes including faceted, round, oval, twist, flat round, rectangle, drop, abacus, chips, heart, tube, cross, square, leaves, fan and much more. You will find them in strands or as separate beads. For something different, be sure and take a look at its Gemstone Beads Index for jewelry making to set your jewelry designs above the rest.

Friday, November 11, 2011

How to Judge If Beads Stores Are Reputable

With the development of fashion jewelry, more and more beads stores or beads suppliers are appeared. Jewelry businessmen and jewelry designers have more selections when they choose their beads sources. While, how to judge and choose a reputable jewelry beads store to avoid many problems after received items? Here are some useful tips about that.

Tibetan Style Beads/Pendants

Tibetan Style Beads/Pendants

First, do a research about the beads stores or beads supplierson the internet. As we all know that the good stores and suppliers will be listed at the top of first or second pages. Here I mean on the organic listing. I am not meaning the first one is the best one. But we should realize that the promotion power is one part of the stores’ actual strength.

Gemstone Beads Strands

Gemstone Beads Strands

Second, comparing those beads stores or beads suppliers with each other to find the best one to you. You should consider all aspects of them, for instance, products’ quantity, products’ quality, products’ prices, customer services, shipping cost, shipping methods, preparing time for each order, convenience of website and etc. Never consider at only one aspect. From of those aspects, quality, customer services and preparing time for order are unable to be checked out from websites directly. In that case, you need to contact with their customer service team which is the best way to know these beads stores better. About the quality of items, you can ask for some free samples. Some beads stores, just like PandaHall.com, can offer free sample cards for beads and findings, even free shipping.

Handmade Lampwork European Beads

Handmade Lampwork European Beads

Third, you also can ask for recommendations from your friends. It is a very good way to know reputable beads stores or beads suppliers. And people will trust the recommended stores easier than the ones they found from internet. Don’t place your order directly on the recommended stores, even if your friends have good experiences there. Contact with them first if you have any question to make sure they are the one you are looking for.

Handmade Lampwork Beads

Handmade Lampwork Beads

Here I would like to recommend PandaHall.com to you. PandaHall is a federation of Chinese factories and also the Chinese Small Merchandise online market. So it can offer you lower prices without doubt. It retails and wholesales beads & findings for more than 200,000 items. So you can easily find what you desired there. You also can ask them to product customized items for you as they can offer customized service and source many products for you. PandaHall has a special lab with highly trained person to check the lead content in its products. The lead-free inspect apparatus can check metal products very precisely and offer accurate content analysis report which is a powerful guarantee of the product’s quality. It is a Squaretrade Verified Seller. Whether you have a company of jewelry making or personal jewelry store, PandaHall can offer different solutions according to your needs. Christmas is coming. Just have a try, and prepare for the wonderful festival.