Posts from — July 2008

Here's a quick and easy jazzy pair of earrings you can make up before joining your friends for lunch. Dig into your beads stash, and grab a couple of your favorite colored crystals, czech glass or stone beads. The best size to look for would be 6mm in round, cube or diamond shapes. Collect 4 smaller beads (3mmish) and arrange and stack them onto a headpin. In this example we wire wrapped toward the top of the headpin, leaving an inch of headpin exposed. Gunmetal headpins look fab showing through glass beads and the ball-end ear wires add nice detail to the finished set. **The secret to making equal lengths is to bend both pins at the same time when making your first right angle bend before wire wrapping individually.**

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We are busily counting out packages of new antique brass findings. I really like having the option of  using our new 1.5 inch 24 gauge headpin. You won't feel like your wasting supplies when you only need to ad one bead to headpin. We are are also broadening our collection of antique brass jumprings. Currently we have 4mm, 6mm, and 8mm jump rings. Split rings in 7mm and closed rings in 6mm and 7mm. These findings are nickel free. Our new medium size lobster has a different design. This clasp matches our new antique brass chain that I recently posted about. Please tell us what other sizes of jumprings you would be interested using in your jewelry design? You can post your answer here below in the comments section.

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Antique Brass chain is versatile and attractive and can used as your primary jewelry making material. Chain can be used to create one of kind jewelry pieces full of color and texture. Hang your favorite charms and trinkets using our matching headpins and eyepins. Wear chain in long layers mixed with other jewelry pieces. Antique brass has a vintage look and I love the warm base color of the brass with a slight green cast that occurs when brass is oxidized. Ohiobeads.com offers many styles of antique brass click here to see them all.

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