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Summary: Learn about picking beads for wire jewelry with expert wire jewelry making tips and advice in this free online crafting video clip.
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About the Expert
Marissa Weeks Marissa has been making jewelry since she was 13 years old. She was an apprentice with wire jewlery in Monterrey, Mexico in 2003. read more
After you decide what type of wire that you want to to make your wire jewelry, you need to decide your type of beads. I am someone who that I just choose the beads that grab my attention at the time. I have lots and lots of beads to choose from. You've got wooden beads and your glass beads. The glass beads are great and they're really popular. You can get them at pretty much any bead store or any type of craft store. They've got really interesting ones that you can choose from. A lot of times you can even get strands of beads like this. It looks like you already have a necklace made, but you can pull the beads off and make them however you'd like. There's a lot of small round beads. I've got these glass beads that have a little design on them. The possibilities are endless, the amount of beads that you can choose from. When you're buying a bead, the beads you need to consider your project and how many beads you're going to use. Buying them in a strand is a great option if you've got a large project, or if you wanted to just buy some loose beads and you can put them on your necklace, bracelets, or earrings randomly.