A Jewelry Designer, Instructor and Artist, I am always in search of what is yet to be known. My work is inspired by my environments, memories and photographs. Dominant in my influential landscape these days is my 3-year-old who keeps me in beading. The playfulness and constant discovery in this medium contrasted with the delicate way they are assembled on the inside is the "little girl" I share with my daughter.
Forever on the lookout for my next challenge, the largest one yet is how to transfer what is in my mind into words and into creation.

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rocks and beads

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can you ever know too much?

My childhood ambition ...

to see some part of all 50 states (and I did)

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so my thoughts are more organized.

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the energy and life in the world aroud us- not the paved parts either...

Hobbies & Games > Beading & Jewelry Making Beading: How to use crimp beads

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First for a clarification. Although they are most always all referred to as crimp "beads", there are actual round crimp beads and cylindrical crimp tubes.

The round beads are base metal or plated which have thinner walls to them and can not hold up to the folding of a crimp tool.

Crimp tubes(which most people refer to as crimp beads, including myself)are the only type I use. Sterling silver and Gold filled crimp beads are in this tube shape and will be the strongest for your projects. The strength is in the wall thickness. When using a crimp tool, you indent one side of it then fold...

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