Ever wonder what the Jewel Loom Workshops involve? Want to learn more about them? In this video, Julianna Jewels Avelar, the creator of the Jewel Loom, goes over the July 2022 Workshop, Festive & Fun Earrings.
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Jewels also has something pretty cool to show you from days at Aleene's Creative Living so make sure you join for a blast from the past!
If you are interested in taking a class with Jewels, you can visit jewelloomschool.com to see available courses. This months course Festive & Fun Earrings is being offered July, 2022. As of this date there are 3 complete kits left. However the content lives on the Jewel Loom School platform so you can always access it there. As long as the Jewel Loom shop is online and open you should be able to buy your seed beads that coordinate with this kit there.
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Transcript:
who knows who knows why the techno gods are just like out of control sometimes
but anyway i am getting ready to um tape this month's
workshop segments and i thought you know what i'm just going to get on and
talk about it for those of you who maybe have never taken a workshop with me and to
obviously review what we're going to be doing for those of you that are already um in this month's workshop and have
paid some i think everyone for the most part i don't know if the international people have received their kits melanie
from canada is saying she got her package today super stoked yay
i'm so happy to hear that um so yeah i wanted to talk to you about the process and just kind of um
show you how i come up with things and and the what and the why and so for
those of you that don't know i'm juliana um avalar i am the inventor designer
owner of jewel loom the original bead loom that can be literally found all over the
world and since the original jewel loom the baby jewel loom was birthed and then
um i decided i wanted a wood loom and so now i think there's like i don't know eight or nine of them so
i'm slightly loom crazy um but that's okay i love bead weaving i think it's
just such an incredible soulful um art and you know there's just so many
different things that you can create obviously jewelry and
even home decor pieces and fiber art and really just whatever your imagination
will lend itself to facebook users i can't see your name because you must not have
given stream yard permission so i see you i see the high jewels hide back but i don't know who you are
[Laughter] so if you want to just tell me um who you are that would be awesome and if
not that's okay stay incognito no no problem there so yeah so this
month um in the monthly workshop that i do we are focusing on beaded earrings
and the um there's two places where the inspiration came from so
number one was definitely um the spanish tile
uh bracelet that we did okay this was a couple months ago and i
just every opportunity i can put this on i do i absolutely love it
and so to me it brings such great happiness i love the colors they you know they just
really pop and i did actually make some coordinating earrings to go with
the spanish cuff and these were with six millimeter fire polish let me get
those steady and some six millimeter tile beads and i
just love these and i use the sliders and they are just so incredibly sexy they're super cool
like super super fun okay uh yeah i know suzanne right just so fun
and so festive and so i really wanted to keep keep that happy vibe going
oh hey charlotte charlotte i know you just got i think you just got a loan right
um and so yeah so you know i was i was placing an order for
um for my beads and and i started coming across like these
really cool names like this one is opaque frosted
cantaloupe i mean seriously house thinking beautiful and this one is dandelion i mean look
how gorgeous that is and this one is sour apple okay
so i started getting all these together of course the opaque turquoise i you know i could use turquoise every day
um and this one is corn flour look how gorgeous that blue is is that not
stinking beautiful and and then i had a lavender base i did an edo and a lavender base
and then it just kind of all knocked me outside the head so
eau claire you know i love it claire's here from south africa and every time she shows up my heart just
explodes um because it just i mean wow right wow your my product is in south africa and
she knows that i just get a super kick out of that because it's just so beautiful um
so okay get back on track so after seeing all of those gorgeous
colors of beads and being so happy and fulfilled from the spanish tile cuff bracelet that we
created all of a sudden it dawned on me i was like okay
not only do i want to do seed bead earrings this month but
a big inspiration and how many of you remember my days at aleene's creative living
so you know i was a part of the aliens family for many many years aliens
creative living was the day number one daytime show it was being fed into well over a
hundred thousand more than that 100 million 100 million households when it was all
said and done right in the united states and canada so aline
um was the inventor of tacky glue and the gold bot in the gold bottle so i'm not sure if y'all
realize that um you know that that's where i got my
start and so i went on an interview one day and they were like look for the sign with the paint brushes
and i was like okay i just wanted to work right so we had moved moved to lompo california this tiny little town
and um the company was in buelton and so that's actually where i got my start on ellen's creative living
that is where tiffany elaine's daughter who is still one of my besties we just went kayaking this past saturday her
first time which i was like what you've never been kayaking um
and so anyway long story short when i started thinking about these earrings and my days on leans
it reminded me of y'all look at this do you remember this look
aleene's more beat it do you remember does anybody have these still
so tiffany had designed these super cool look at this
is that not so cool look at the earrings and the brooch and everything and i was like oh my gosh
yes totally want to to do these totally want to show everyone and these will just be such a
great addition to everything that we've been doing and
just to keep look at keep the happiness going look this is the first one look at us all oh my gosh you guys are
going to trip out look at the look at the hair [Laughter]
is that so crazy so that's um myself with the larger-than-life hair
uh beth was a producer there's joan fee carolyn bainbridge and then of course tiffany down there is that so fun and we
literally used to tape the show and then we would go into the kitchen and we would make all of these gorgeous beaded pieces
there would be beads all over the kitchen floor and look at marina marina was our
graphic designer and marina does work for me now so it's just so stinking cool but here are some earrings over here too
look at these these are i made these so these are long earrings with a bunch of loops and then um
and then earring um you know fish hooks is that so crazy fun
so yeah look at the good old days y'all how much fun is this and believe it or
not a few years ago tiffany had actually gifted me the actual
jewelry that she had made and so i have the original earrings and the brooches in one of my drawers somewhere
but is that no are they so stinking cool um they've got the um clip-ons i did i
did see somewhere where clip-ons were making we're making a comeback
but these are so there's just like a little patch i'm totally going to be teaching these in the class
um but yeah look it so fun so so fun
so this is where you know i just um i love how i get to present in this
online workshop format so the workshops live
on the jewel loomschool.com platform okay so every month i create a course
and then i create an outline and i add all of the paid students into
the course and then i start adding content and the thing that i really love is that
it allows me to tape the content in little bytes so for the most part um
each little segment is approximately 10 minutes long
but the other cool thing is that it also allows me to
add a lot of the tips a lot of the tips and the techniques right and so the best part about it is that you the student
can just go back and say okay what did joel say about warping that loom again because i'm
having some struggles i'm not getting my warp very well so you can literally just go back to
that segment of the course and learn what you need to learn without
having to sit there fast forwarding rewind etc in fact so here's a great example um
last month we did and i cannot get enough okay tell me
so this was our project last month and we did this gorgeous hat band
we learned how to do um the leather closure and so this was a perfect example of
where i could tell my students hey here's my experience because i don't
edit i am not editing i just don't have the time and i mean
unless it like truly is horrible but you know so i don't edit so the truth is
of what you are seeing and sometimes that includes a frustrating moment
for instance okay we used we used the large wisdom warrior to make
our hat ban all right and after i got it all warped and the warps were absolutely beautiful okay
but after i got it warped and i tried to do that first row of seed beads for the hat band
oh my heck if i was not going to like lose my ever living and i wasn't gonna lie about it right i
mean for me there was a there was a little bit of a challenge and so i wanted my students
because we're not physically together right i wanted everyone to know the truth of hey
i had a little more fun than humans are allowed to have doing that first row
but it worked out and look at and it's to die for right and so for some people they didn't have that struggle and for
others they were like jules you were so right that first row was challenging but they could see
that we got past it okay and so that yeah for you know a hot moment
it was a struggle but then we moved on and the is absolutely that's just gorgeous i mean i
i truly have been so empowered by making this hat band and so this just gives you
an idea which by the way if i'm not mistaken i do believe
that um there are 22 videos for the hat band
and they're chunks they're just little baby chunks right so anywhere from a couple of minutes to um
to 10 minutes but again you know you go to what it is that you want to learn and
so maybe for you you've done a half band but you dig the pattern right but you're like you know what i've
never done that closure so you can go to the closure so um so yeah so it's just a really
great format obviously i'm slightly in love with that because i love talking about it and
so it just makes it really easy you pay for your course i add you into it there's also a community in the school
and so we're not relying on facebook for um for our community because we want to
make sure that we are always with each other so this is a platform that i own
and pay for um and so you know it's not dictated by you
know um something that might happen in the social media world it's a private area for all of us to discuss our
projects and it's really really great so um i just i'm gonna i'm gonna take some
air here really quick and see if anyone's got
a debbie says i've got to learn how to do that yes it's so amazing
making that happen was really just a really great experience for me personally
um you know full disclosure most of you probably know i'm go big or go home right
and so to work with um those tiny seed beads i was like oh boy
but guess what it worked out and um and the jewel loom needles thank you
oh my gosh because when you have that nice long needle
yeah and you're making a pattern like that and if you have any you know issues like i do myself because i've
been making jewelry forever and beading um man they just made life so
so good when bead weaving that is just so great um great question facebook user i'm not
too sure if this is debbie or somebody else so here's what happens here's the great part about the courses
they live forever they live forever it's
it's in the school right and so you just um pay for the
course and it's already done so those past courses are already said
and done they're already in the class and all you do is buy it
what i will say to you is i have to do a lo some of them are just content
because i may or may not still have all of the supplies in stock but you get
the supply list the hat band is going to be content
and product so you'll be able to get the beads to make that but yeah
that's the great part right so not discrediting teaching in person
because man i miss it okay so the last couple of years right and i'm definitely going to be doing
that again but you know you have the class and then you all go your own way
but with the courses that are online they're evergreen and you have access to them 24 7 right
so they're yours right you have access and yes they're still available so it's
super cool super super cool but you can always um if you need more help with
that more clarification just text me or email me and i can help walk you through that but jewel loomschool.com is where
all of the educational content both free and paid for lives okay so if you're
just looking to figure out how to use your original jewel loom or your baby loom or any one of your other looms um
up on the menu bar it'll say how to how to use and that is where you would
get some free content on simply how to use um your looms and then if you're looking for courses you're going to see
those if there's something you you're looking for like the hat band i can't remember in this moment if it's if
it's on the home page just again text me email me and say jules i'd really like to get the product in the course and
i'll make sure that you have that okay so back to the earrings because i don't
want to like take up a ton of time i so i didn't even realize this i had so i
made we made all the kits for the current students for july and we'd sold out
but what i didn't do because i only made a certain amount i didn't realize that there was still
product there's five july kits left so if you want to join the festive and
fun earrings course there is still time um in addition to those six different
seed beads everyone received the new and nobody else has received this unless you
bought a small wisdom warrior kit this is the new crown seed bead board
all right this little because everyone said kept saying tools my my board is missing
something actually it's not that's a piece of cork and that's where you stick your needle
pretty stinking cool right so this comes in the kit um we're actually doing i don't know if
you can see these we're actually doing um everyone this month
got a pair of the baltic birch earrings that i'm considering bringing in
to the shop um we've made them here's a pair here's another pair these are the leaves aren't they cool
trisha um who does the jewel loom school lives along with amber scott she is
actually designed like um decorated all of
the blanks and she's gonna tape a video for all the students
so she's going to show you how to use your stains your paints and how to color the baltic birch
and then how to use your beads and your findings to make some pretty amazing
earrings i mean seriously they're super sassy so i'm really excited about that so a pair of those are coming in that
kit and then i've just included some basic findings some fish you know the fishics
jump rings and um head pins so and some ribbon clasps so
yeah so it's an awesome awesome kit so again if you're thinking about that oh
and i added this okay so this was a pattern that we did gosh almost a year ago
so i do believe no this is not the one that came with that okay this is beaded pattern
100. got to get all these things straight in my head so
this is another hat band all right super cool this is beaded pattern 100 it comes with the pattern
and it comes with the beads i added the pattern to this month's
workshop because amber correct me if i'm wrong i don't know but i'm pretty sure it was amber she took
one of these the little pattern and she made earrings with them and i
love them i stink and love them so i was thinking oh my gosh a whole
other idea right so i went ahead and i did add that pattern
to this month's workshop it is a download it's in the materials list
and you guys look at how cool that is i use some gorgeous czech glass chain
to um the my sliders for my hat band isn't that so beautiful
i absolutely love it okay oh gosh anything else anything else
one of the things that i also do too especially when it comes to earrings because i know a lot of people are
either in for earrings or they're not like it's not everyone's jam and i totally
understand that so i do again especially with the earrings i do
try to give you like a different idea like you could certainly turn this idea
into like a little pendant um you could certainly turn it into a cute little brooch
you know there are things that you can do and if you're a maker
it's always great to learn how to make things right so i would definitely um
even if you don't wear earrings i would say that it's still an incredible opportunity to learn
and so i do always try to give you other ideas of what you can do with the techniques
i'm a very technique driven teacher
i like to teach technique so that you can then blossom from there but i also
give you some ideas to bounce from and the great thing is that a lot of people love the structure
of that and then a lot of people um will take what they learn and then birth it into their own
expression which i absolutely love love love love love that
is the biggest form of flattery for a teacher so yeah um i just love this
so i got my wine glass and i have like a different earrings
these yellow earrings by the way if you have my book
okay these are in the jewel loom book and
i don't carry my book in my shop um
it's it's hard because as the authors we don't really like get these big huge discounts i mean we get a
discount we get a discount but i can't offer free shipping and so
you know uh it's just better for you in the end i guess
if you buy it at amazon because you know i get a royalty from it but
i can't beat their pricing in other words and i can't offer free shipping so just go to amazon buy my book if you
want it i might bring it back in i i guess the upside is that i do get to sign them but anyway that's the story if
you want to know um yeah totally suzanne i see you i see you
and exactly you could totally take this um and you can make it a cute little focal on a bracelet
um you know you can make it a cute little pendant there's always something that you can translate into
that um again as long as you're learning the technique right and then you have that content to go back to
so i do want to say that how long have we been i can't even see my timer huh oh
there we go half an hour um i do want to say that
you can either pay as you go so um you can pay the 45 dollars take the
course and go on your merry way awesome come back when you want
or you can subscribe the great thing about subscribing is that when you have paid for at least two
months of being a subscriber you become a vip what does that mean the vips
get a code where they save 20
in the shop so and that is like throughout the year which is crazy
but that is one of the perks of being a subscriber for me it's awesome when you're a
subscriber because then i can buy i can buy
better i could buy more i could save which means you save and you get more
goodies so um that's how come i have the subscription in place it is not do or
die but right that is why um the other thing too is i have a
private texting community so earlier today i got a text from somebody
in the group that said hey i placed my order but i bought the wrong size beads and it
was like okay that's cool i can you know let me go see what i can do so that
private texting is really great hey jules i'm having a really hard time with one of the steps well what's going
on so just because the course lives online and you don't have me in front of you
you have me the other thing and we all giggle about this and this is this is really the
truth it kind of never ends right
it's like you buy in you you become a student and then you know we're corresponding all the
time like whatever you need it's not like buy it do it see ya it's like we've
really built relationships there are people who have literally been students now for
well over a year and a half i think like a long time which is like so incredibly
heartfelt i can't talk about i'm already gonna tear up but um
yeah so it's just a really beautiful experience charlotte says please repeat
how to get to the school so the school is at i wonder if the girls put it in here the
school is at jewel loomschool.com here it is
right there so you go to jewel loomschool.com and that is where the paid content and the
free content is if you want to get into the workshop
the monthly workshop you're going to go to jewel loom.com jeweloom.com is the shop all right
juliumschool.com is where you learn so if you want in on this month's
workshop you're going to go to jewel loom.com you're going to scroll
you're going to scroll went the wrong way um down to i don't know right past where
i show all the looms and you're gonna see the workshop and again i just added
five more july kits in there so if you um want to get in on the july the
one thing with that is that it's gonna there is gonna be probably five to seven days
we gotta make more crowns okay so just be patient you're not gonna miss out on anything
i i still when i get off of here i gotta go tape i gotta start taping the course
so you're not gonna miss out on anything so there's that story so let me go back to
the comments um because charlotte i want to make sure did that help is that what you wanted to know please repeat how to
get to the school so again you would go to jewelloonschool.com to
learn to access your paid content to access your free content
um and then you would go to jewelloom.comjustjoolnoom.com
to shop all right so shop julian school learn
try to make it easy peasy and make make all things jewelry
so i just want to take a look on my table here because i had so much i wanted to tell you about um i will
mostly be working with the baby jewel loom okay in the earrings course um it's
small and um uh it will save me on my my warps on my
thread so i'm using wildfire of course and
but you could use your original jewel loom all right this is the original you could certainly use your original you
could use your small wisdom warrior you could use your large wisdom warrior if you wanted to do what kelly and amber
refer to as production work right so they really use the large wisdom warriors especially
kelly for productivity like she'll like put a lot of earrings or bracelets on the large
wisdom warrior um to get a lot of things done at once um
and what other loom i mean you could if you had if all you had was the um
um so the small sun weaver you could certainly the grid on there is small
i believe it's small enough but really you know the baby jewel loom
baby jewel is going to definitely be the best for small things because you're not going to waste product
so and then obviously i'll be working with the jewelry needles as i already mentioned the wildfire
and yeah i'm just you know so the way it starts off like today i'm gonna upload the um connection for this
this live so that my paid students can also see this and
and then i'm going to do a segment on how to warp the baby loom
just that's it right clean cut here's how you work the baby loom and um
and then i should definitely have the time to then go into
that making of the 80 square and
i'll probably start looping so yeah so that's like three so so what happens is that i
progressively drip the content into the course
so you go to the hatband course it's already there it's all there all 22 videos done
put that to bed it's ready to go for new people the current month the festive and fun
earrings i am adding content now this is july 9th oh this is july 20th
see i don't even know what day it is july 20th and the year is 20 22 if i'm not mistaken
[Laughter] and so now i start to drop stuff in and i'm i'm working on it and i love it
because then things come to my mind and i'm like oh my gosh i got to do that too but that's kind of how it works
so structured but not super structured so i would say uh you would need to be someone with a
little flexibility and and let it be fluid and flexible uh because if you if you and i'm only
referring to the current month all the other stuff is done but the way that i birth current month design is is how i
do it in my head so i birth it as it comes and what's cool again is that a lot of stuff ends up
getting put into there right so anyway i hope that helped i hope that
i didn't tell you too much or not enough or if i but i was just super excited and i
thought i want to share all of this with everyone so again five of these are left right um as kits
so you've got the crown you've got um oh can we do this are they gonna roll off
we've got six six different tubes uh five eleven o's
one eight oh we've got a pair of the baltic birch earrings everyone received
a different pair of earrings if i'm not mystic mistaken mistaken i do believe there are six different
styles and so i wanted everyone to play with it i wanted everyone to see them to kind of get everyone's feedback that's
the other thing about being a paid student is that you always know what's going on right and you
you get things first so for august i'm just going to tell you right now i'm pretty sure it's going to
be a loom i just haven't decided which one
so anyways it's always fun i always make it fun and definitely worth your money and time so and then your findings you've
got some findings so and then of course you get the course you get me and hey
that was kind of a lot [Laughter] maria maria i love how maria is just
expressing herself so beautifully with her jewel looms um and so there is a facebook group a free facebook group and
so we're actually um feeding into that right now claire says oh wow claire did
you you prob i wonder have you gotten your package yet claire like i said is in south africa
and so um and so it takes a little bit longer but uh
yeah so okay i think that's it i'm gonna let's just take a couple more we've already
got 41 minutes in i don't um want to keep rambling i'm
just going to go back in hi stacy and carmen and suzanne and joanne and maria and
melanie and debbie charlotte
so exciting to see everybody all right i'm just looking at all of the
um all of the posts here patty patty patty
and brooks so beautiful okay so oh you're very welcome it's exciting
it's really cool i love the facebook group because you know people share their projects
and what they're doing excuse me
wow you received your package today you ordered it on sunday
awesome yay yay to us and yay to the us postal
office let's give them a shout out when they deserve it right [Laughter]
god bless them i can't even imagine being in their shoes so anyway
okay um let me know if you have any questions i'm gonna put that number up again um banners let's see let's hide that one
and there's the um it says text bead kit but i we need to update that you could
just say just text whatever it is to that number 805 76805
um six eight and still on its way
okay so claire says it's still on its way to her her kit is still on its way to south
south africa so fantastic all right um thursdays which is tomorrow
jewel loom school live with amber and tricia and trish is actually going to be
showing some seed bead work um with a pattern that she designed and i believe
she's going to be using eidos but she's also going to talk to you about how you can use 11 0's which i love because the
flexibility and size can really be nice you know like if you
don't want to deal with those tiny little guys it's awesome to know you can do a pattern with an edo
so i love love love that that is at 4 p.m pacific standard time which is up
california and the other states and um
east coast time that's 7 p.m so that is tomorrow thursday the 21st
and yeah so very cool all right let me know if you need anything
and i look forward to seeing you again and uh we are gonna get this technology
thing dialed in if it's the last thing i do seriously crazy so i apologize for that in the beginning but i'm so very
grateful for you for staying with me and oh my gosh come on you guys aleene's
creative living right how stinking fun the best days i had the
most fun the absolute most fun on aleene's creative living and met the most
incredible people and i'm so grateful for those relationships elene did pass away a few years ago but
tiffany is still at it and heidi her sister um is like the mosaic queen so
definitely look i should put up heidi's link somewhere because she is doing awesome mosaic work and i think she's
going to open up a studio she is outside of nashville tennessee now very cool so
yes i know i know i enjoyed being on that show so much
very grateful okay i love you i got work to do i gotta go take some segments for a
course [Laughter] all right y'all see you again thank you
