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yay hello hello hello everyone welcome to juwel loom School
live on March 21st 2024 my lands time is
a passing by I am so excited you're here hey I'm Juliana the jul loom Mama the
inventor of the juw Loom portable bead weaving loom and I'm so happy to see everybody
coming into uh into the class as I like to refer to it I always visualize
everyone like hanging out in the Halls waiting to get in um tonight we have
gosh so many different things so many different things that I want to share with you
so I'm working with the creative Soul kit from March it is the it's a hoot and
I think there's maybe like five or six kits left there is a
plethora of beads in this kit and I really wanted to think of
something quick and easy to come up with and not necessarily on the loom but
something that you could do right away and so I've got three of those and then
at some point in the ball game here Joan is GNA peek in and she's going to share with you what she has made from the its
aoo kit I mean these pieces are gorgeous they're floating all over the Facebook
and everyone is complimenting her and resonating with what she made I am so
proud of her for what she designed all on her own like a big
girl she's like our closet designer you know like she'll just come out of nowhere with like really really great
pieces and so I'm so proud of you Joan you did a phenomenal job and I can't wait for you to be able to show um
everyone what you made so listen tonight tonight I am going to be playing with wire and so I have a background in wire
working with artistic wire goes way back into probably the late 90s and
so um I fell in love with that Medium the moment I saw it and um when I
look at the beads and when I think about all of the different things we can do I still gravitate towards the artistic
wire permanently colored copper wire which actually is with Beetle on now so
pretty cool right so you can find all kinds of different gauges just um couple things to keep in mind here are some
notes you need to understand the sizing on wire and so um you know 14 gauge
would be really heavy wire it would be really hard to manipulate like 10 12 and
14 are really great for like outdoor art um my mom actually used tin gauge wire
way back in the day to make life-size humans and they were I'm not even
kidding you and they were like a part of the artistic wire Booth display and so it was really really a sight to see and
then when you are thinking about jewelry um and weaving and doing coils you know
I tend to stay in that 24 26 gauge area
22 in fact I do yep I did grab 22 today and so again higher you know higher the
number the thinner right so if we get into the 30s what are we talking about we're talking about
hair 30 gauge is like really cool to crochet and knit with um uh Laura Mena
like our buddy um beautiful Laura she she used to crochet and and I think she
still does with artistic wire but you'll be up like in the 28s the 30s and the 32 gauge so the lower the number the
thicker higher the number uh the thinner so that is
something to know there's permanent colored copper wire there's permanent colored copper silverplated wire which
is the yummy delicious stuff like what I'm going to be using today this is an
ice blue it's gorgeous it's 22 gauge and I'm going to be making a coil I'm
working with the artistic wire coiling Gizmo I do have these believe it
or not in the shop because I do every once in a while gravitate towards a wire
workking project and so I do like to have that I don't have any wire in the shop but I have a feeling that there's a
lot of you that probably have a lot of stash right I know that I was like destashing a lot of my wire several
months ago so maybe you even have some of that um I'm going to show you what I
did and then we'll get to it so I made this absolutely gorgeous look at this so
this is a pendant this is one of the porcelain beads that came in the kit these are
some check beads and then uh some little cute little check beads down here and so
I made the uh wire bead on the coiling Gizmo and then I made all of the wire
components and put it all together but I love this it's
22 gauge ice blue and 22
gauge Rose so it's the rose it's the rose gold color okay this
one so here are some more notes when you're making coils you want your gauges to either
match in size or the second one to be heavier all right I am using 22 and 22
so we're good if my main color was going to be 22 ice blue I could take it up a
notch and I could do 20 rose gold or I could do 18 and then your bead just gets
more voluptuous let me show you a piece okay look at this piece right here so
this is made with the heavier gauge don't pay attention to my poor oxidized
silver piece Tammy hanan's probably dying right now maybe she'll have something for me to clean it with I made
this necklace honestly this was one of the last necklaces I made on the airplane
before 911 yeah so I used to take all my stuff on the airplane and I would bead
and I would wire work and so this is an example here of a heavier wire bead
okay so you could get all kinds of different looks and I love love love
using the coining Gizmo the kit does come with five different
sizes um one two three four five and then depending on which
Dow you know you use is the size bead that you'll end up with I'm using this
guy I'm going to go right in the middle so we're going to use this one I'm going to put these others to the side and then
I'm going to go ahead and bring you down and I'm GNA be standing you know I demonstrated this a
bazillion times on jewry television so it's been fun to set up
for this obviously I don't have the studio people with me okay let me see I want to make
sure let to make sure we get in here
oh okay all right so hopefully well let's just see how it
goes from here okay so this is the
clamp you get to see my tennis shoes this is the clamp and I have it
secured to the table now I'm noticing a little freezing going
on and so hopefully I'm still I'm still
okay okay so what I'll do next is I'm
going to insert the Dow that I'm working with okay the Gizmo the coiling little
mechanism here into the third hole and then I'm going to start with my first
color which is the ice blue and again it's artistic wire 22 gauge and I'm
working from the spool all right so I'm not um cutting a piece I'm actually
working whoops got to get this thing off of there okay and I'm GNA go ahead and
bring my n Nylon jaw pliers in I can't emphasize enough having a pair of these
where are we at there we are and I'm just going to you know what um Joan what
would happen if you bring up my other one I'm just wondering if we need both cameras on let's see what
happens so yeah so maybe just a little so I'm working um working from the spool
as I said and I've got the 22 gauge ice
blue and I used the nylon Jaws to really
help to get those Kinks out okay so these are really important and what I'm
going to do next is I'm going to go ahead and let me move this again there we go
maybe that's a little better all right you can get rid of me
Joan so I'm going to take the end of The
Wire where's the overhead cameras when we need them there we go okay cool beans
and you can see the end of The Wire right here I'm just going to take it and wrap it around thep top of the handle
okay you don't want to do too much especially if you're working with this nice more expensive artistic wire
because it's the Silver Plate um and so just you know as much as you need to wrap around the handle there and next
what I'm going to do is I've got the wire it's down on the ground and I'm
going to place my pointer Marlin Brando's going crazy right now okay I'm
going to place my pointer and it's laying on top of the Dow and then I
bring in the rest of my fingers and the wire is like resting on my middle finger
and my ring finger and then I've got my thumb okay and what I do is I just start
to use all of that to help feed the wire
as I'm pushing forward and you can see the
coil coming together and you really want to guide it so so that the coil is staying nice and tight
together okay and so if I find that it's pushing apart I might stop and then help
to redirect it okay so we're just going to push
forward and we're rolling and I'm guiding and the wire is actually being
fed between my pointer finger my thumb
and I'm just really watching what I'm doing you know this isn't really the the activity where you just kind of wing it
sometimes too I'll use the edge there to kind of scooch that in
okay and so the longer our coil the bigger the bead and I'm going to do a
coil that is 3 in
long and we're just going to keep keep
rolling and so you do want to pay attention because sometimes if you don't and you think oh I'm just going to whip
through this and go really fast your wire could literally start coiling
itself back over the coil and that's not what you want okay so that is why we're
taking our time we're feeding the wire up and over the coil as I'm pushing
forward and again I want three inches so I'm just going to keep going here I'm
working off of the spool that's down on the
ground oop see I got a little crazy there and it can
happen it can just happen because right and you don't and sometimes too like if
you if your wire jumps on itself like that bring your nylon jaw pliers in and
kind of massage that wire down there so that it comes up and
over the Gizmo um in a more straight action okay so I'm
going to back out just a little here because this is getting
long and I do want to get that coil a little more
tight so we're just rolling and rolling until we've got about three inches and I do believe that I
close to being there so let's bring in let's bring in the ruler really quick
what do I got yeah I'm going to do a couple more I'm just shy of a good three
in so let's do a little bit more okay so
now that coil is done and I'm going to bring this up
camera a little bit where do we need to go this way
okay let's see so I'm going to bring that out okay and now we're going to
undo uh the little tie that we had and then we're going to slide that off we're
going to bring in our wire cutters these are also from Beeton these are my favorites the blues I'm going to take
the flush side of the cutter and I want to very carefully just
just cut that off all right and so there's the coil and I'm just going to
let that drop for now scooch it over and I'm going to bring in the rose
gold which is absolutely delicious now you could reverse this and the main part of your bead could be the rose
gold um whatever look you're trying to achieve is you know the first color that
you would use and I use the ice blue first so I'm going to let that also
fall I'm taking the top here the ending of the rose gold and I'm going to put it
through that coil that I just made all right so now I've got let me get in the
camera here
so we're there we go
okay got to go a little slower CA is a little jumpy for some reason so you can see that the rose gold went
through the ice blue okay and I'm just going to let that coil
fall all right so it's just going to fall I'm going to let it go out of my hands I'm going to take the Dow and
slide it back into the holes and again I'm just going to secure the end of the
rose gold to the handle and then this time I'm just making like a a little
little baby neck right so like maybe you know like a quarter of an inch that
looks good and then what I got to do is come down here and I got to find the first coil that I did and I want to kiss
it up to that little piece of of um coiling
that I did and then I'm going to take the tail
whoops and I want to wrap that around the coil all right and now this
is where the magic happens and I just so feel like the camera needs to be better
so just give me two shakes of a
leg let's see what I can do
here okay let me lock this back into place the Acron Mount people hopefully
will be at the show because I want to look into some better um
options a little bit better yeah okay so what I'm going to do
now is I've got remember how I'm going to take my hands right so I've got my
pointers just kind of like hanging out resting my middle finger and my ring
finger and my pinky are behind and my thumb is still over here in the front
and so I'm going to help to guide the coil to go back up onto the coiling Gizmo so we're just
very carefully right we're just going to start to see it snake
itself and I'm really careful I'm just guiding the coil up and over and you can
see how it's just like making a little snake type of look
here and then when we get to the end we want to finish the exact same way
that we started so we'll do like a tiny little coil okay and then we're going to pull
that out and there's our wire
bead the both the rose gold and the ice blue
are 22 gauge so that second color always needs to be equal to or greater than the first
color all right and so we're going to slide that off and I'm just going to back up the
camera here so that we can get a better there we go and hold on I'm also going
to do this h Lord let there be
light all right so I'm going to come in with my flush the flush side and very carefully
I'm just going to nip that off okay and then I'll come over
here and I'm going to do the same thing and I'm holding um the tail there
because I don't want it to fly back up and then I've got to do the same
thing over here so I want to find out where this
started whoops get back in the
camera okay and so there's our wire
bead so it's pretty substantial you've got two colors that are both 22 gauge
and so you have a very substantial bead now what I like to do do is I like to go
back to see because I can feel like this needs to be tucked in with the round no pliers
I don't want that to scratch my skin or grab a hold of um my
clothes and then we can just kind of like scooch that down a
little yeah so pretty Okay so so then
what we're going to do so just let's do a little stage I'm going to take this uh I'm
going to take the clamp off you always want to be careful with that clamp because you know you don't want to catch
your clothes or your skin with that either I'm going to pick my wire up from the floor so that I'm not put into wire
gel and we'll just kind of rearrange here a little I'm just want ing too let
me see let me see if this
will help with coloring there we go that's a little bit
better and maybe we'll do
this okay so um let me just pull
in let me just once again I'm going to pull in the finished
one all right so this was one of the porcelain beads in the kit and the rest of them were all the check um glass
they're just absolutely Gorge okay so I've got
um it's so hard to like pick so I've got this really cool porcelain and then I've
got like some of the hearts I thought that might be cool um what what else was I going to
use I was going to use some of these guys these are also in the kit so I just used the
artistic wire to make you know like a head pin so we're just going to come
over here I'm going to cut off a piece full disclosure as you know I am
in no way shape or form the queen of making Loops so please give a girl a
break break no judging um I know you all have your way
of making Loops I have mine so let's just call it even all right where's my
other round those okay so I um first thing I want to do is I I want to create a jewel loop
we're just going to call these Jewel Loops because this is how I do it so I like to make sure that you can't
feel you know the end there and I've just got it holding in
and I go back and forth I know you all have the way that you do it honestly it's a lot to do with
the um to do with my wrists too it's just the way that I can I can maneuver
so I'm going to get that nice and straight and I'm going to start with one
of these gorgeous it's almost like a forest green so rich and
pretty a thanks Lori and then I'm going to take this
gorgeous um look at how pretty already just already so pretty right so this is
one of the porcelain beads the porcelain beads by the way um are also coming in the April kit so there's a whole other C
color palette for April and um there's more porcelain so we've
got a um little green bead we've got the
porcelain and then what we want to do is we want to feed the wire bead so we're going to go in through that coil that we
made and we're just going through the middle oh girlfriend you made it too
okay so I made it too short here's a little something you can do you can
actually push this in in so let's push it into
itself I might just have to cut a new piece it won't be the end of the world let's see if that
helped it may or may not have I still probably just a little too short okay
we're just going to do that again so we'll use that for something else and I'm going to cut a longer
piece so let's do that so this time we'll go really long um again I love
having the nylon jaw pliers on hand these ones are from Beeton pretty much I
would have to say that um if my tools most of my tools are all Beeton so in case you're wondering like this is a
Beeton product um the nylon jaw pliers you know so all right so let's do that
again and um we're just going to put a
loop and we'll go back and
forth want to make make sure it's closed though okay and I'm just going to
massage it with my fingers and then we
will where you at buddy string that on and then we're just going to go ahead
and take the ceramic bead so just doing what we did all over
again and now we got plenty because I of course I cut way too much but that's all right okay and then we're just going to
slide that now I still am not keen on let me see how do I like that okay
that's a little bit better because now it looks like it's sitting on top of the bead um there are some discs let me bring in
these see there's like these little disc spacers in the kit and I think I'm going
to grab one of these guys so let's do that and we're going to come apart here
I just feel like it there needs to be something in between um
that bead and the wire bead so the fun thing is that you can oh
yeah that's so much better okay cool I like that a lot okay so
then again let's just kind of massage that
out all right and we are going to get the Cutters
again and I don't need that big of a loop or that big of a loop or that big of a loop is that going to be enough
maybe a hair right there okay so we'll cut that you know it's a requirement to talk
to yourself when you're beating right and then I'm just going to come
down here and make a bigger Loop so you know you could add this onto leather you could add it onto some of your silver
silk um I know Neely's got some complimentary colors that would look really good I'm just going to bend that
back a little okay all right so let's straighten that
out and then what I did was I just took like a bunch of the pieces of wire and I
made just little tiny pieces so I want the end to be really
tiny so I'm going to use the tip I actually going to use these round nose
players you could do do yeah that's hot Caroline I mean seriously there's so
many I think the cool thing is just I don't like the end of that so
hold on I'm going to do this off camera so I can protect my eyes
okay it was feeling a little sharp so I'm just trying to get like a
really tiny end of course this went very well for me
off camera [Laughter]
on camera it wants to be a little booger okay there we go nice all right
and then I'm just going to grab a heart and I'm gonna um go through the
heart okay and see those will just like be the little dingli the little dingly
berries and I don't really need a big loop but let's just do
that and then I'm going to come in and we're
going to make a loop here I'm going to keep it
slightly open so that I can add it to the bottom and then we can close that
one okay and then you could just do like that kind of looks nice this one kind of
looks cool with just the one heart and then you've got this one with three different
pieces so you know when I think of these I
think easy um perfect for the for not only gift
giving of course like all day long but if you're doing a boutique style cells I
feel like this would be a really great addition to your table so like Ilana if
you're you know if you're out and about and you've got a table and maybe you just want to have like a great say 20
$25 item I feel like this could be it all day long again just attach it to
some cording and you could have a bunch of these hanging and it's very much an
Impulse buy and it's not really going to cost you a lot and it's definitely not I mean I just said that one in less than
30 minutes and it only took that amount of time because I'm trying to talk and demonstrate so I really love these uh
not only for personal use but for giftgiving and again if if you're a jewelry maker this is that perfect item
it's also not for nothing if you're selling a really high-end piece of jewelry what a great gift right just as
a thank you you could like throw one one of these in there and it's not going to break the bank so um yeah so super cool
I love that I'm um okay so why don't we
you want to bring in my overhead really quick I mean my my
face okay so yeah look at that just two really quick items from the creative
Soul kit super stinking cute and just remember
that the higher gauge you I'm sorry the uh because when it comes to
numbers so 22 is thicker than 28 so if you use 20 22 18 gauge wire
you're going to have a really substantial very heavy wire bead this
one is an example and this is really funky okay this one it's got fibers
hanging on it this one I use 26
gauge you know what it reminds me of it's like a one of like it's either
like a super old vintage teapot or like a
lantern doesn't it kind of like have like a um oh my gosh what is a
Gibson girl kind of vibe I don't know I see things don't get
in my head right yes so that is a triple coil
so basically you would take it up and over um one more time and so yeah so I just I
love I love all of these they're just it used to be I mean I used to do that all the time like I was doing this all the
time and I loved it and so it's always really fun for me to like incorporate it
back into my world now um because it's very much a part of who I am and so yay
okay so those are the wire wire beads we've got like three different examples
I'm totally going to take a really nice photo of all of them
all right so I'm G to I'm going to move these over so the other thing that I wanted to
show you and I'm going to speak to this one really quick because I I think it is what it is I don't want to take up um
the time uh because I want I still want to do the tassels so I took the
owls okay the Baltic Birch owls that were they cut they came in the creative
Soul kit all right and you also got the ear wires so you had everything you need and I was like you know I really want to
color them because they're so cute so what I ended up doing was I
Googled colorful owls and a beautiful assortment came up
on the screen and I was like I found I found one like literally I wonder if you'll find it too but it looks just
like this one and I was like oh I totally want to do that so I used my um
and by the way this is what they look like uncolored so this is how they come in your kit all
right and I used the artist uh
colors these are Swiss this is a really nice really nice
uh set of color pencils okay so I will be at NAA this
weekend the uh National Association for material Arts creativation you know the
industry I've been a part of forever and I definitely will be playing around with
paints and color pencils and I will definitely be sharing my finds how I got
these so shiny okay and how I sprinkled 11os into
his little belly was using Mod Podge all right so
after I colored I did for giggles I did let that set I don't know that you
have to but somewhere in my mind I was like done
coloring walk away from the color let them sit for a hot minute and then come back and do the Mod
Podge I don't know that you needed to do that but in my mind it was just like a
nugget of like let him cure kind of thing I don't know if it's necessary I
did it okay so and then when the Mod Podge was still wet immediately after I
I applied it to the owl I sprinkled some excuse me some 11 O's
okay if you had no whole beads that would even look cool so I
didn't have any handy which mod podge uh well Mod Podge is a plaid product and um
you will all Mod Podge is actually a is a trademark name it's a brand name so
Mod Podge Mod Podge by plaid and they've been in the industry like for a
bazillion years so great company right so colored pencils mod podge and the uh
Baltic Birch owls that's how I got these guys super cute super cute okay
so spoke to that and everybody kind of get that I mean I kind of feel like
that's a straightforward idea right I think so okay I'm just looking
very cool all right everyone loves them Mod Podge dimensional yes very much like
um you know like I don't want to say it's like resin but you know it's the look it's the
shiny dimensional really cool finished look I just want to get my
wire secured because uh where's the other one
that okay so that is secured I'm going to get this guy I'm really when you're
done with this move it over because you don't want to get all hung up on that so
the other thing that I did was I made some tassels now we've had that tassel
set with um three of the same size for quite a while but we were playing around
with some sizing I'm like falling out of my chair we were playing around with some sizing um for bellicon and so
Robert sent me three different sizes to choose from and then I was like
oh we need these and I added them to the site
Robert sent me the artwork and I added them to the site so I'm looking for the Jill Loom tassel set
today and neither one of us ever thought about sending me a set so here's what
I'm going to tell you ignore the fact that these say bellicon this is not the way you're going to get them okay just
get that through so if you order the tassels they have the wisdom Warrior on them they say jewel loom they do not say
bellicon so I don't want you getting upset with me because that's not what
you're getting okay I'm going to use so there's three sizes so there's a large there's a medium and there is a small
and I'm going to be using the whoa the small tassel maker and I preut some yarn
all right now this is going to incorporate remember how I added fibers
to your kit this time so here's the deal with the fibers these are gorgeous um beautiful
beautiful beautiful fibers that I get from a company that I just love it's the
Moreno there's also like this really funky gold green color in your kit and
you're like why because because I can and I want to
share the love with you um but really you can do a lot of really cool unique things with them and so I'm going to use
the fiber along with my yarn and what I do is I have the St the stencil the
tassel all the dogs are barking I don't know if you can hear that and the Marino
wool yep so normally what people would do right is
they would take all of this yummy fiber and then they spin it and I
still in my lifetime want to do that but not today so I just love weaving with it I
love doing our cuffs with it I think it just adds a really
incredible unique touch to your pieces Okay so Joan wants to spin all right so
I've got the yarn and this is the the end piece right there and I'm just
letting it lay on the tassel maker and then I'm going to transfer right so now
I'm going to hold it with my thumb and I'm going to start to bring the end up
and over and I'm just wrapping okay and then at some point if
I want to take some of my fiber and we'll just kind of like lay that in
there for Giggles okay so we're just going to lay
that in there and we can kind of bunch we can Bunch this up you don't
have to be this does not have to be like some clean situation all right so then
we're just going to come up and over it's almost like we're spinning a
tassel you know like we're going to put a Twist on this
idea and then let's just bring some more over I can't get enough of this stuff I'm a I'm a little I'm a little crazy
about it all right so then we'll just put some more in here now you can weave this um you know
if you wanted to weave it into a bracelet my God these dogs are killing me and then we're just going to bring
that and then we that's going to be my back
side okay so I've got my little tassel maker all delicious with yarn and and
some fibers um I'll tell you what I'm
thinking let me hold that thought and if I forget that thought remind me okay so I'm just going to take the scissors and
I'm coming down here at the bottom and I'm just going to kind of wiggle my way in
and actually got to come from this direction because I'm right-handed okay
so I just cut that cut the bottom this isn't science it's not like rocket ship
type of like you know so just be cool with it and then I'm going to grab all
of that and I'm going to Bunch it
up and of course I thought I had cut enough dang it um hold that I
[Laughter] thought all right I remember saying to
myself self leave a little extra to tie with so I'm just going to cut some more
off and really quickly so I just got to have it like bunched up right here and
then I'm just going to take this extra piece and let me just do it down here on the table because I'm not going to
pretend I can do it in the air all right so that's just kind of like my first
little knot and I think I just got it a little uneven so let me clean that mess
up so you just kind of have fun you know getting it all to where you
you want it but this is like the small you can come back and you can trim that
that's a little long okay and so then you can see the now if
you wanted to right so you can come in here with your scissors and then we'll
just I should have been a stylist a hair stylist give me your head of
hair okay so we just have like this really fun funky little thing right so
then two ideas all right because that's cool but come on now we need to come on now um when I was
first playing around the other day what came to me was oh how cool take one of the buttons and then attach it right and
then on this one I just put some beads on a headpin
and then I snuck it in under the button so I kind of have like this really cool little
goddess you know with her little roped piece here hanging down and I
could definitely color her in and do some resin or Mod Podge if I want so
what's the deal with this so again I'm just thinking you know if you are packaging
if you're making jewelry it's always so fun to receive like a little free something and what an inexpensive way a
package topper something that could go on a card like look at this friendship
card right like this a friendship card and I mean you could even tuck it in as
a gift like that would be super cool right or it could actually be planted
you know on some card stock I mean so many yeah so many cool
ideas right there's just so many things to do and again you know we're normally
taking the kits from the creative Soul collection and we're weaving which we do but I also really
wanted to make sure that you knew that you could do other things like you know you could put the bead on the head pins and you could make tassels so with the
one that I just made I got to get this out of the way so I made this cute you know here's
an example just here's a cute little head pen with the beads from the collection and yep I left my Jewel Loop
open you can make a brooch yeah totally see there you go that's what I want you
to think I want you to like think out of the box because there's just so many cool thing so I'm just
attaching this to the tie there but look at how oh my
God it's so cute look it okay seriously you could do a bazillion of these and decorate your
Christmas tree come on now where's Robin for the come on
nails so super fun cute little ideas of what you can do with the collection you
know like if you're just like hey Jules I definitely am going to you know weave something you can weave your rings oh my
gosh so I wanted to go make a ring last night and realized there's not an 80 in this place how did that happen I got 11
O's everywhere and I don't have any 8 O's oh Jenny's giving me a come on now I
love it so we got cool tassels you could use um oh here sorry I did use the ow
button so I just kind of did like this real funky like um you know how much I
love this material I picked up at Michael's like every time I go there I just buy another ske and then I just put
the button on this is the button not colored but you could certainly do that as well and
then you could see the fibers it's just very boho very organic um I just love it
I love the idea of the tassels I think they're a very simple very economical
way uh to create things either as gifts things that you're going to sell
and what I was going to say is yeah I go to Michaels Joann's Hobby Lobby um I I
have a small yarn shop in ohigh but it's a very high-end product and so you could go to a
retailer you could go to an independent yarn shop you could go to the thrift store right you just need to make sure
that it's obviously clean but many times people are cleaning out their homes and
they've got like a plethora of yarn some of the best ribbon yarn button
finds right are at like your at your local thrift store so you could totally
do that I asked friends for leftover yarn see there's so a very very
economical way to just take a few beads make a cute little headpin assortment um
add one of your jewel loom buttons If you so desire you know add your fibers
they're just really fun I really love them and so I I think that I think it's
a great idea so there's the tassels you know we got the
pendants we've got the pendants and I love love love this one too really funky my little my little
Gibson Girl Lantern I could just see her walking with her Lantern right put my
hair up I'd be that Gibson Girl and okay what else did I want to
tell you I'm just so excited I get excited all right um what I wanted to say was holy cow and let me just scooch
this over without spilling anything I mean come on now look at everything
that's still left this is everything that's still left
from from mine I mean it's crazy this was seven
strands of check glass beads a bag full of porcelain beads the owl earrings the
owl button some findings the fibers the fibers I tell you the fibers are in the
kit okay and come on now a cookie and a teab
bag but really in all honesty um I really really really do work at getting
a lot of really great quality items into the kits and if I'm being really
honest I'm looking over at the months that are coming up I actually scored so well that for
you uh I think we're GNA get through like probably August with some a lot of
stuff a lot of stuff now we do have Papa Joe hatband kit in May and I gave Joan a
sneak peek and even Joan said that it was to die for so I um I'm going to let Joan
come on now because I had asked her if she would share her finished pieces and so Joan's gonna come
on and she's gonna share with you what she did Joan and I have been having Joan you could get rid of my overhead if you
want um you'll have to get rid of it okay if you want to take it off because
there's no way huh it won't say oh remove okay okay
Joan and I have been talking a lot about the kids and you know really quick here
you know it they were born because creative Soul was born out of the desire to help people learn how to weave and so
that I could share project ideas and ways to use the plethora of looms right
mostly the original jewel loom but as you can see likes
to okay mostly the original jeom but Jonah and I have talked a lot about like
okay what if a person doesn't use a loom and we've got these
beautiful creative Soul kits and we have this amazing creative Soul Community how
do we start letting people know because I'm not a shop that carries all the findings and all the
this and all of the that okay I love Cur rating gift gifts I love curating these
boxes I love putting them all like Fine Chocolates putting in the Box for you
and so Joan was really passionate about trying to help me figure out how can we
attract other jewelry type makers and Joan you knocked it out of the flipping Park I'm so inspired by you I'm so
grateful to you I'm gonna let you speak and you show off your pieces okay let's
see if I could do this okay you're got to look at my piece instead of me um do
you just why don't you get rid of me and you take over here I'll just remove myself for now let me move my
a I just knocked over my
camera sorry about that don't be you're excited all right let me get rid of
myself so I'm gonna go ahead and um oh okay this is what I'm gonna do sorry
this is I didn't realize my cords are wrapped everywhere oh my God you so stinking
cute okay so this is my necklace and I did the I still have to do the coating
but I did the out like Jews I just fell in love with it and I used um leather up
here um and attach it to the ring and I just use artistic wire um to hold it in
place but I used a large whole bead to hide the ends oh so you know I just folded it
over through the ring and um fold it over through the ring and
wrapped artistic wire three or four times what when I was wrapping I would um tighten it up with a pair of um
flatten those pliers so and then this H is knotting
it's three knots in between each per each be uh and and in this case I used I've
always wanted to try um waxed Irish linen so that's what I'm using here and
is7 uh millimeters thick and to be honest with you to get it through you
need a to use what they call a leadered needle so I think I'm going to do a
short tutorial on that so you can see what I mean by a leadered needle because it made a a difference I couldn't just
string it through there and then I chain and this one actually is three strands of that wax
styish linen which you can use whatever cord you want to and then I was looking
for something brown you know to go with the wooded theme and um the charms are
hanging from uh you know I made loops on the
top and um and then I just used I just
um my brain's not thinking clearly uh I um braided it and put these in between
and then also in between the braids I put um a bead on one strand and so I like I braid like six
steps put some you know leaf on six steps put a bead on at the top I put
three beads and three beads and
then my earrings I made them so when they hung
let's see if I can get them to quit moving when they hung they'd be facing forward so that's why I can't hang throw
it because it'd be sideways if I showed it um the front of the thing so what I did is I just took like Three Links of a
chain or in this case one link of a chain and then I hung a bead off I F
five lengths of a chain because I was measuring against it and put another heartbeat on and then n Links of a chain
heartbeat but it really depends on the size of the links and then I put it on a um bigger jump ring and then hooked it
to my ear wire and then the bracelet since we had
pinch beads in the kit um NE likes using pinch beads in his hollow mesh so that's
what gave me the idea so I just got out some Hollow mesh um you know with the
wooded wood theme and I put the green pinch beads in it
and then the second strand is beading wire and oh speaking of which if you
have a one-step looper looper don't use it with these leaves because I thought
I'll take a shortcut I'll use one step Looper I broke Four Leaves no matter how careful I was so I went to did it by
hand I don't know if it just tightens it up you don't want to break your leaves and I ended up M and then I just hooked
all three to um a didn't have any closed rings so I made my own by making wire
loops and put it um bead in it because I did I didn't have Guardian wire and I
didn't want any of these wires to slip out of the jump ring um hole so that's
um pretty much what I did with those wow I'm just sitting here like my
mind is so blown I'm so proud of you we can't see your beautiful face
though because you're because of the camera mix up yeah
thank you so much um you know we've always wanted to get ahead of the ball
game and and it's been hard and so this time it was like all this stuff came in thank I mean
thank God for my mom because really she busted her butt getting everything
prepackaged through like like I said at least July and then I was like oh my
gosh I could like totally get these to Joan and see what she births and you did
not disappoint mama you did not disappoint you you have
really um inspired and really made a lot of people happy I hope you go back and look at all the comments um and so even
Lori says I've been making some multistrand jewelry love it Joan Thank You Caroline says they're
fabulous fabulous and of course Maria um and it and it's just true like it's
really great to be able to see the versatility of these kits we can do our
beadweaving you know if you choose you can make tassels which are in I
mean the gift category the paper crafting
category um you know our pendants which cover the jewelry the
earrings I mean there's just so many different things you know these cute
little tassels if you made them any smaller like maybe with a small one you could almost like do some really fun
little cozies for your stem wear well you know I was just thinking I don't know I if I would mail it but if
you want to make a um with those little heart beads or you know one of some of the other flatter beads you could um
yeah maybe take some green wire make some um stems or something and make like
little flowers with them and glue them on to card stock or something for a card I mean there's all different things you
can do that's outside of be world yeah no there are so many different things
and and I'm just so grateful to you for showing that the March creative Soul
it's a hoot kit really be utilized in a plethora of
cre ity um and so we really want to communicate that and I really just um
I'm going to highfive you right here high
five doesn't work we need to go side to side there no this way
[Laughter] oh no you go the other way I go this way
well I don't know I'm on the left side and you're on the right side on my screen oh my God Ser we need to practice
that oh Nilda I'm not sure if be able to do that nild I'm so happy here I really
hope like Nilda I had you I had you in my mind you know like when you were we were emailing and Nilda has some really
great questions and I think that Joan was able to identify a lot of the beads
and so she may be able to help you better than I was able to because I felt so bad but um Nilda was asking about the
different Styles basically and so um anyway Nilda
I'm so happy you're here uh Claire I believe Claire was in here earlier and I
just want to give a shout out I did get your message of you and your
granddaughter Claire is um oh how come I just went Ireland Claire is
French Claire is French and I'm speaking Irish can you speak Irish anyway
adorable picture of her and her granddaughter um beating and that was so
lovely and I'm just trying to think I know I'm just it's too funny Portuguese
would be a little bit closer to French than Irish would be it is the same I'm just saying to be
a little bit closer well I'm just saying oh Portuguese to French I'm saying you'd
be a little bit closer to French by using Portuguese accent than you would an Irish accent
even though it's still not the same yeah I can go Latina like really
quick do my portuguesea but that was funny that I just like did Irish who well it was just
St Patty's Day we're working with a plethora of greens and I do think my mom has Irish
in her in addition to being chaa Chaka uh Native American I don't know if you
all know that but my grandma her mom's Mom I'm sure my aunts will correct me if
I'm wrong but she was was she full and then my grandma was half I don't know
like goes down I don't know I'm a 1 18th or something of what so but of chiasa
Chaka and so duh that I would be a weaver right so cool so Jerry's highing
everyone's High fiving I love it okay it's 503
uh and there's Claire okay gotta get going yeah but
you're French right because you said you said oh for the love what did you say
that was French you said bonjour I think you said
bonjour and I think I think she's I think you're French are French it looks
like a French name yeah she adorable adorable picture that she sent of her
and her uh granddaughter and so anyway we just have a fun time here and I appreciate
everyone coming on and watching we so appreciate it when you subscribe and we
love it when you like something um and we're just sending you chocolate Sparkle
kisses when you share the channel and so we appreciate you so very much oh my God
we just did a live without David David I don't know I just realized David
was not anywhere in the chat so David if you watched this on replay we missed you Deborah just came into the house and she
said try Irish with a Texas accent that's a very sexy
proposition I want to hear that one yeah I'm gonna work on
it Mama will be working on that one so anyway hey Bunko is tonight so the dice
are in the house I'm in charge of uh chips and dip so I did the um my
favorite Trader Joe's spinach artichoke thingy that you know is love that very
popular uh was some pea chips and I did uh some Trader Joe blue chips with some
salsa I think I did good did I do good I think I did fine so I'm always nervous I don't know why
oh my God are these right so anyway so that's Bunko tonight Hey listen I leave
for Napa do you want to see my finished piece yeah show them
okay so it went in a whole different direction because
remember it was it was neutral and I had made this beautiful piece on the large
goddess and then it went in a different direction and I reached out to Robert I
said you got to save my butt because i' done screwed up and I
need you to make more of those eyes those wisdom Warrior eyes and and it's a
good thing because we totally didn't think it the jewon wasn't even on there so it all worked out for the good I love
it I'm hand carrying it nobody better take it away from me at the airport I'm GNA be really mad all right here we
go it's total M gr total
MRA so this is the letter i for creativation does it get closer Joan if
you just have me on for a sec yeah we don't need me on there anymore oh oh there we go I didn't mean to bite
that way so this is I was in charge of doing
the letter i for creativation for the NAA Association trade show in New Orleans I leave on Saturday I'm hand
carrying my eye um and I'm just going to come up a little closer look at the
detail look at that gorgeous gorgeous piece that I made on the original blue jewel
loom I also wanted to do what ended up being remember these guys I made them on the earring Loom so there's two of them
and I wanted it to be like a like a watch like a pocket watch right so it's coming out of the pocket down
here and then I couldn't help but add the ow because it's just so stinking cute for the
wisdom and so yeah what do you think it's a oh wow for sure I I love it
several months and then it all kind of like transitioned at the last minute into a different color wave basically is what
happened um I told Robert that uh maybe people would want to do a workshop that
maybe we could get things uh smaller and you know maybe we could actually do
like a similar Workshop I think that would be fun okay oh my
God all right it's heavy I can't believe I'm G to carry it oh well it's only there I don't have
to bring it back strong all right I love you guys Joan thank you a thousand times thank
you for watching um I will definitely be reporting in from the show I'm
definitely going to be taking lots of video I'll go live as often as I can we
have one event after the next I land at 1:30 on Saturday and we go to the hotel we
freshen up and then we're off to the show where we're have there's like a big big manufacturers event where we're
going to be able to learn about a lot of uh new products and um we have a huge
designer dinner that night the next day I'm taking a class with Tammy haniman
which I'm super stoked about I'm also taking a class with sizzix die cutting
and um who knows what else is going to happen on Sunday and then the show starts on Monday and I'm really excited
about that I'm going to be hang hanging out with the guys again the glue company um and so yeah and I'm just going to be
looking for like a lot of really cool stuff to share and possibly use and I'm just super stinking stoked
so I will be reporting in and um and I will I will have you with me I have you
with me so I love you guys thank you for being here Joan thank you again and we'll see you next Thursday I'll be back
maybe it'll just be a showand tell because I'll be tired good night everyone okay all right love
y'all