Crystal Christmas Tree Earrings Tutorial

This delicate, pastel design uses a mix of nugget, potato and coin freshwater pearls. We’ve also thrown in a few 8mm rose quartz gemstone beads to add a touch of pink. You can make this necklace on an existing chain (like we have), or you can make a chain yourself.

Why We Love This Tutorial: This is a simply strung, long necklace that you can complete in less than an hour! We would often knot between each gemstone bead with this style of necklace, but by using tiny 15/0 seed beads we get the same effect with a lot less effort (and time, yay!). I…

Why We Love This Tutorial: One of the limitations of macrame is finding beads with holes big enough to fit one or more strands of cord through – but this tutorial solves that problem! It’s just a basic spiral knot (the same as a square knot, except you don’t change directions… in other words, a…

This is a technique we teach in our beading classes!

Why We Love This Tutorial: These pretty bangles are made using just wire and beads, and once you get going are very easy and quite quick to create! We’ve used tarnish resistant wire, which means these lovely bangles will hold up against the test of time. We’ve used some of our very sweet little ‘pebble’…

Why We Love This Tutorial: Create this stunning focal necklace using wire and gemstone beads. We love this design as it allows a great deal of freedom – if you make a mistake or break the wire, simply wind on a new piece of wire and keep going! This design is also quite easy to master;…