Writing Beading Instructions for Others

If you are an accomplished bead crafter, you may want to consider writing beading instructions for others who are just learning. Especially if you have created your own designs, you probably have a lot to offer for others who are beginning bead crafters and are not sure where to start. Writing instructions for beginning bead crafters can make you some extra money, and can even lead to holding beading classes in your home or at craft or bead stores.

First, sit down and make an outline of how you would like your beading instructions to look, and what you would like them to say. After you’ve made your outline, start with a rough draft. Write the draft once before you start making corrections. After you’ve written it, you can then read it through again and start making any changes that you deem necessary. More than likely you will make a first, second, third, and even fourth draft before you are satisfied with the finished product, but this is perfectly normal.

Once you think that you have a good finished product, have a friend or family member look it over and critique it for you. Have the person tell you if it would help him or her learn to be a good bead crafter. Finally, if you are satisfied with the beading instructions that you have written, start making the rounds of craft or bead stores to see if they would like to purchase copies of the instructions, or you could even sell them on the Internet.

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The Ultimate Bead Lover's Guide

Alright! Today, I'm going to introduce everyone to a neat little ebook found online. It contains almost everything you need to know about beading, whether you are a beginner starting out or an expert beader looking for more patterns and designs, "The Ultimate Bead Lover's Guide" is the book that contains it all and more!

The Ultimate Bead Lover's Guide

Best of all, if you're thinking about selling your creations, they even teach you 10 fantastic ways of getting your beaded jewelleries marketed and sold in double quick time. Wouldn't it be nice if you can offer to sell your bead crafts to people who come up and admire them?

The Ultimate Bead Lover's Guide

I have just purchased a copy of this book (it was sent to me via email) and it pretty much contained what I really needed to get me off the plateau, up and running again with more designs.

If you're interested instead in ready made pieces, do check out
Lucky Crystals Accessories instead. They have quite a few unique designs and patterns.

Have fun beading =)

Beading Is Still A Hot Craft And Hobby

Beading is a great craft activity that is fun for people of all ages. Children as young as three or four years old love to make beaded bracelets and necklaces. You can even find beading kits that are specifically designed for children to learn the craft of bead working. For adults who love working with beads, many have found that they can make a decent living selling their creative bead work at fairs, online, and by opening their own bead shops.

Having fun while you work is something that many people try to find when they are looking for a career, so people who enjoy working with beads will really like the idea of making money while they are having fun with beads. Beads come in so many sizes and styles that there really is an infinite number of possibilities when making jewelry or other beaded items. You will never get bored if you like crafting with beads.

The most popular item to make with beads is jewelry. Children usually start out with large plastic type beads and make each other friendship bracelets and necklaces. At your local craft store you can usually find dozens of books available on different designs and patterns that you can use when making your jewelry projects. Plus the Internet is a vast resource of free information for bead working projects.

If you are working with beads and trying to sell your items you might want to consider expanding your bead work to more items than just jewelry. One area that is quickly gaining popularity is bead work on household items. You can add beads to table cloths, seat covers, lamp shades, or comforters. The only limitation with bead work is your own imagination. Beads can really liven up any household piece that you have.

You can also work on projects that are season specific. Like Christmas bead work for jewelry or household items. Many people are interested in updating their house during this and other holiday periods and will be more likely to make a first purchase of a beaded craft.

A very new and quickly growing way to use beads is by making flowers with them. With this technique the beads are intertwined and made to look like a gorgeous flower. The French Beaded Flower technique takes a little practice, but after it is accomplished you will be able to market a very unique form of bead work that very few others are able to do.

It doesn't matter if you are trying to make some extra money or just doing bead work for fun, working with a variety of beautiful beads is a great way to spend your time and will bring joy to people of all ages.

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Glass Beads

Glass beads present an artistic spectrum of beauty with value. They come in vibrant colors, shape and finishes, and add a magical touch to the product. There are different types of glass beads like Czech glass beads, handmade dichroic glass, Millefiori, lamp work beads and even bumpy glass beads. They are available in different colors and sizes which artisans pick up to complete their canvas.

These beads are sometimes given different types of fancy finishes like Aurora Borealis or druk glass. Where druk glass beads are perfectly rounded and optically polished, multi-colored lamp work bead strands are in shapes ranging from fishes to twisted ovals. Luminous dichroic glass is another bead type which comes in a multitude of shapes. Then there are crackle glass beads. Czech glass beads with a pearl finish are great values because of the high quality and tremendous variety in colors, sizes and shapes.

Since glass becomes molten when heated to a certain temperature, glass artists can create any shape as well as layers, while holding the glass over a flame. A bead with raised decorations, bumps, dots, sparkly feathering, with foil inside or other applied decoration, is most likely a lamp-work bead. Many glass artists produce unbelievably complicated beautiful collectors' items in glass. The rainbow of colors and textures of beads available today gives infinite design ideas. The number of beads per strand and strands per hank depends on the size and weight of the beads.

There are glass pearls, art glass beads and cane glass beads. You can find glass pearls in all shapes. Glass beads are expensive compared to other beads but enhance the beauty of the product. They can also be added with embroidery pattern or used with sequins as well. A transparent glass bead has the tendency to reflect the base color and can be beautifully used with any color.

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Bead and Crystal Handicrafts

Hello there all beadcraft lovers!

I've been into the bead crafting, weaving, and designing business for quite some time now. From the very beginning, I designed my own pieces of accessories, ranging from handphone straps, keychains, card holders, miniature standalone pieces, sets, and more... But as time wears on, I realised that more people in my area are looking for existing designs that they've probably seen somewhere else. Sure, new and unique pieces do sell, but people still like age-old designs like animals and flowers.

With that in mind, I searched around for patterns and designs that I can use. Craft books are limited in designs and they are often repetitive. Ranging from necklaces to bracelets, there isn't very many things that they teach. It is so difficult to find designs that I've hovered around handicraft shops, trying to cram into my head the little details of each piece on display without attracting the suspicion of shopkeepers!

The internet was another option. The vast amounts of information on the internet was overwhelming at first, but after days of reading the same content over and over again, I decided enough was enough. It is just getting so hard to find something new out there, yet I know there are alot of new things out there to discover!

If you have been there and done that, you've come to the right place at last. I've originally set up this blog for the sole purpose of throwing all my research information at a common location for future reference. But now, I'm going to compile all of them here for your information and viewing pleasure!

I know, chunks of information are always hard to digest. I've been through it the hard way and I do not intend to make you do it that way too. Hence, I'll release only bits and pieces of information each day, all related to bead crafts in some way or other. Come back any day you feel like reading more, for just a little bit extra stuff.

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