How to Make Jewelry – Articles Revisited
If you’re wondering how to make jewelry, then this Friday’s dip into our archives will help you out. Once again Erin Savoie takes us through various aspect of creating homemade jewelry by providing good instruction and helpful photos. Her first article helps us learn a bit more about clasp selection. If you make a nice [...]
How to Make Jewelry: Finding Inspiration
Sometimes, we get in a slump. You might have everything you need to make jewelry, and you’ll be sitting there with your beads and your supplies, fiddling around, but nothing will be happening. Nothing clicks. This happens to me pretty often. When it does, I’ve learned a few tricks to getting inspired to make something. [...]
How to Make Jewelry – Articles Revisited
Our articles about how to make jewelry have been a successful series here at Self Reliance Works. We’ve had plenty of interest in these well written instructions and helpful pictures that Erin Savoie puts into each of her articles. In a previous Friday’s review, we featured reasons to try to make your own jewelry, so [...]
How To Make Jewelry: Weaving With Can Tabs III
The past two months, I’ve been showing you how to make jewelry – and other accessories - from can tabs. First I showed you the general weaving technique, which puts can tabs to some actual use and makes pretty nifty things at the same time. Then last month I showed you how to finish the [...]
How To Make Jewelry: Weaving With Can Tabs II
Last month I started a series on how to make jewelry from can tabs. In the first post, I covered how to begin, and the general weaving process. This month I’m going to cover one of the ways you can finish off the strand of tabs into something usable – in this case, a bracelet. [...]
How To Make Jewelry: Weaving With Can Tabs
This week we’re going to start learning how to make jewelry from can tabs. Can tabs are ridiculously common items to find around – almost everyone drinks soda, and a lot fewer actually keep the tabs when they are done their cans. I’ve been collecting can tabs halfheartedly for the last five years, and I [...]
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