Quartz & Crystal Flat Lay

A lovely customer in the shop yesterday inspired me to make this necklace out of the beautiful new gemstones I was putting out… so pretty! What I’ve used: Aquamarine Diamond Faceted Beads 8mm Morganite Tumbled Small Nuggets  Rose Quartz Pendant Feather Charm 15/0 seed beads as spacers (or you may like to knot between each…

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 2mm silver spacer beads we get the same effect with a lot less effort (and time, yay!)….

Why We Love This Tutorial: What a cool (but simple) little technique! This tutorial uses cord and chain to create a design that almost looks like crochet – and yet it’s super fast and easy to make. You can use any smallish beads (ours are mostly within 4mm to 6mm wide), so it’s once again…

This was a project we did as a class back in February. We have used the fancy crystal drops, as well as some Carnelian and Citrine gemstone beads.

Why we love this tutorial: Here’s another lovely memory wire bracelet… I love making memory wire bracelets – simply thread on your beads, loop the ends, and you’re done! I’ve used some of our new gemstone rondelle beads in this bracelet, in bloodstone and carnelian. I’ve also used a bunch of our antique-look bronze spacer…

Why We Love This Tutorial: We really wanted to try knotting between each bead using Rondelle gemstones (as opposed to the usual round shape). I actually really love how it turned out – we’ll definitely be doing a few more knotted designs using rondelles in the future! We have used some of our new 0.65mm…