Crocheting with Preciosa Ornela

Video tutorial, how to make your own crocheted necklace, bracelet, earrings or heart.

Egyptian Inspiration

Today I want to share beautiful jewellery made by Jenny. Old Egyptian jewellery inspire her to create amazing projects. For example, this Egyptian beaded necklace with golden Nefertiti charm and clear with copper half coated spikes:

May favourite is this cute bracelet with pure white frosted sea glass and fire polished beryl donuts:

Find more jewelleries at Jenny's blog - Egyptian Inspiration

Few words about handmade buttons

Modern technologies change the world. It concerns beads manufactory too. A lot of goods are made by unmanned units, that’s why handmade products are valuable. Fortunately traditions of handcrafts are still alive in small Czech city Jablonec nad Nisou.


We visited master, who makes glass buttons by manual pressing. It is pretty hard work, requiring physical strength. Furthermore the whole process of production deals with high temperatures that master has to endure.

First of all, he chooses a glass rod:

Glass rod is heated to a high temperature, from 900 to 1500 degrees Celsius (temperature depends on glass color).

Then it is pressed by a mold.

Master has a great number of molds – different patterns and sizes.

Buttons after pressing:

They get cold slowly during a few days. After that they are sent to manual polishing and painting.

So, glass buttons from the Czech Republic are unique handmade product.

Button instead of cabochon

You want to create beaded brooch with cabochon in the center, but can't find suitable cabochon? Dodn't worry! You always can use button instead of cabocoh. For example look at this brooch. Monika used glass button and made perfect jewellery.

Red and black pressed ovals

We have increased Pressed Ovals category with six new items. Five of them are available in wholesale pack!

Fire polished beads

Fire polished beads are the most popular in the world. The uniqueness of the production process is in the fact that each bead is placed to hot oven for 20 minutes. At the first stage faceted beads are placed on metal sheet in one layer.

Sheets slowly run through the oven with an average speed of 0.4 metre per minute.

Oven usually consists of three parts. Temperature in each part is higher than in the previous one. For each color these temperatures are different.

 So after the last stage we have amazing fire polished beads!

Giveaway is closed

It's time to announce our winners! All of them shared information about giveaway at Facebook.

Wendy Dager won $50 gift card!

Sherrie Myers won $40 gift card!

Cyndi Lavin won $30 gift card!

Congratulations!