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5PCS MULTICOLOR CRYSTAL SPACER EUROPEAN CHARM BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 8MM    US $.01

5PCS CLEAR CRYSTAL SPACER EUROPEAN CHARM BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 8MM    US $.01

10 PCS OLIVE SILVER SPACER LOOSE BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 3X6 MM    US $.11

10 PCS LIGHT BLUE SILVER SPACER LOOSE BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 3X6 MM    US $.11

Question: Crimp Beads and left-over Wire...?

Whenever I'm making jewelry, I typically wind up using crimp beads (with toggle closures, in most cases). Whenever I cut off the beading wire at the end, after enclosing the crimp bead around it, there's always this itsy bitsy part of the wire that irritates me to no end when I wear the jewelry. It seems that I can only cut the wire so much before I wind up snipping at the crimp bead. How can I remedy the irritation fact of the left-over wire?

Answer: Here is the way to get rid of the scratchy wire: Take the wire on through the crimp bead and thread it down into the beads, and then crimp the wire. If you have a little wire sticking out there on down between the beads, just bend back the beads, and clip it with your jewelry wire cutters that have a side edge. Be sure and cut your wire with a couple inches to spare so you have enough wire to attach the clasp and thread the wire down.
I was having trouble with the crimp bead scratching, no matter how I crimped it. I found out that they sell a crimp cover. It looks like an open clam shell, and you just slip it over the crimp bead, and close it with pliers. Beware, there is something called a clam shell, but it has a eye on it, it is for non-metal stringing materials.
Another thing I found was a little tiny horseshoe called a guide. It goes above the crimp bead, and holds the clasp. It protects the wire from the wear and tear of the clasp. And it is so easy to pull the wire through it once it is on, you can adjust the length of the wire over and over. I was literally stuffing the wire down into the beads with a pliers. No more! Just pull on the end, and down the wire goes. No more ugly lengths of wire between the beads and the crimp bead.
I found both these items in gold and silver colors, at Michaels, and Craft etc on line, and on other online sites.
So, save the glue for working with elastic cord and gluing a bead over the knot to hide it.

Beaded Jewelry Making : How to Use Crimping Beads

5PCS MULTICOLOR CRYSTAL SPACER EUROPEAN CHARM BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 8MM    US $.01

5PCS CLEAR CRYSTAL SPACER EUROPEAN CHARM BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 8MM    US $.01

10 PCS OLIVE SILVER SPACER LOOSE BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 3X6 MM    US $.11

10 PCS LIGHT BLUE SILVER SPACER LOOSE BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 3X6 MM    US $.11

Question: I want to build a business web site how do I do that?

I have an at home business where I make jewelry, pyrography treasure boxes and pictures. I do a lot of other crafts as does my husband. I want to built a web site and am looking for help from yahoo. I am hoping this can be done with little income as mine is very little and fixed related to my disability. Thanks MJ West

Answer: Microsoft will help you set up a business website, and also give you a free domain while you're at it. Go here and check it out: http://officelive.microsoft.com/

How to make money from Jewelry Making Parties

5PCS MULTICOLOR CRYSTAL SPACER EUROPEAN CHARM BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 8MM    US $.01

5PCS CLEAR CRYSTAL SPACER EUROPEAN CHARM BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 8MM    US $.01

10 PCS OLIVE SILVER SPACER LOOSE BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 3X6 MM    US $.11

10 PCS LIGHT BLUE SILVER SPACER LOOSE BEADS JEWELRY FINDINGS 3X6 MM    US $.11

Question: I am creating a web site for a Jewelry Business I would like to start and need help with a slogan...?

Ok, the business name is Inner Beauty Jewelry Design and I was was thinking something along the lines of how our jewelry brings out the outer beauty in order to match the inner beauty. Yes it is rough, but of course I won’t use that. I wanted to know, based off my idea does anyone have any good slogans that have something to do with it?
PJ, thanks for the honesty, I need it! I was orginially think "Designs by Siobhan (my name)" but I dont know.

Answer: Hopefully you want honesty so here goes the name is all wrong. Inner Beauty sounds more like a line of cosmetics when used as the first two words of the business.

Leave off INNER and then use the word in the slogan.

As in

Beauty Jewelry Designs bring out that inner glo.

Not exactly but we can keep working on it!

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