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Comfortable as your Favorite Blue Jeans!

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So easy.  So comfortable.  So beautiful! Wrap one around your wrist today.

To Bead or Not To Bead?

Sometimes people ask me how I got started in beading.  I guess the idea first came to me after attending one of those home jewelry parties.  Normally I am not a fan of those type of parties because the merchandise is pretty pricey.  But this party was hosted by my daughter-in-law and I wanted to support her --- plus I did love the look of the jewelry in the catalogs and on display.  I purchased my very first wrap bracelet at that party.  By the time tax and shipping was added, the bracelet tallied $50+.  I remember thinking to myself, "I could make that and for less!"  Up until that point I had never considered making jewelry.  But the seed was planted that day.   Jump AHEAD-  A few months down the road (April 2015), I found myself drooling over strings of beads and gemstones in a local hobby store.   There I was- at the crossroads.  To bead or not to bead!?   I had tried my hand at a few pieces for myself...