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Submitted: 2010-09-02 07:50:53 | Word Count: 870
Making your own jewellery has become an exciting and new hobby for many women and men. It is easy to get started and once the basics have been mastered it is so easy to get started you will not be able to stop.
To start off with it is very handy to have a bead board. A bead board is a board with different measurements and compartments. It helps you have a clean and tidy surface to set up and start work on.
Bead boards are relatively inexpensive and really do help the beginner set out the correct measurements to make a piece of jewellery the right length, it also helps place the beads in a nice order correctly before threading them on.
A bead board allows you to play around with the formation and produce final decisions before threading. Each board has a section to place beads while sorting through them too which is handy.
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A set of tools is needed to start off your collection these can be bought from crafts shops or online too. They are handy to help crimp, fasten, bend and shape so are really essential.
Making jewellery is simple; there are so many designs for everyone. Some magazines and books have step by step guides to follow to get you started.
The sky television also has a channel for jewellery as well selling all tools and beads. Beads start off relatively cheap and work up to more expensive semi-precious stones that can make a large item costly to make.
In stores look at the prices each bead has and work out the net profit if you are making items for resale.
If you are making items to re-sell consider the whole price of making the item including the fastenings and the time and effort put in o that piece.
Author Resource:-
Bill J. Thompson has recently created a site on Clear Marbles. The site is always updated and has articles such as Marbles Collecting to read.
