Friday, June 26, 2009

Quit Your Job and Make Custom Jewelry

By Lauren Kay

Making beaded jewelry is an exciting and fun way to express your creativity, meet new people and make some extra money in your spare time! The skills needed to make beaded jewelry are pretty easy to master once you have a little practice and you'll be able to use your skill to not only make jewelry for others, but also for yourself!

There's a lot to learn about making beaded jewelry at first, but once you spend a little time seeing what beads and supplies are available it will all start to make sense. You may want to start out ordering some inexpensive beads and supplies just so you can practice your skills without spending a lot of money.

There are many places you can go to learn all the skills you need to make your own bead jewelry. Here are a few of the best ways learn the basics of jewelry making quickly and get your jewelry making business off the ground:

Check out a bead shop: After you've been making bead jewelry for a while a visit to your local bead shop will be like visiting the candy store. Initially, though, it might be a little confusing to navigate through the thousands of different bead types, stringing options and tools and materials available. Making beaded is a popular enough hobby that there are almost always people at the store who can help you with basic questions.

Get a one-on-one hand-crafted jewelry making session: Some bead stores will actually offer personalized tutoring to people who want to learn how to make beaded jewelry. These classes may have a small cost, but I've even seen some sessions that were free. The bead stores benefit by teaching more people how to make hand-crafted jewelry because it's likely that those people will buy beads and jewelry supplies from their store!

Read a bead jewelry making book: Not an earth-shattering move, but there are lots of great bead jewelry books for beginners filled with diagrams and tutorials that can give you exactly the information you need for starting out. Most hand-crafted jewelry making books are also great for getting the creativity going because they will often show you the finished product first and then explain how to get to that point from the very beginning.

Go Online: You can get a lot of information about making beaded jewelry from online blogs, videos, tutorials and more! A lot of this information is available for free and almost always accessible, so it's like having access to a giant jewelry making library with no cost!

You'll be amazed at how quickly you learn how to make beaded jewelry with just a little bit of practice. Soon you'll be able to make your own beaded jewelry pieces either for your own use, for gifts for others or as a great way to make some extra money on the side.

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