I’m very frustrated with this jewelry making thing at the moment. I hate the little seed beads with a passion! I see now why they aren’t used in most pieces. They don’t have enough weight to keep the wire I bought from twisting, and you can’t hide the knot if you use stretch magic. I heard you can use crimp beads with the stretch magic, so I tried that last night. It didn’t go well. The first crimp went surprisingly easy, but I ran into major trouble with the second one. I’d either break the crimp bead or it wouldn’t flatten enough to keep the stretch cord from slipping out. Eventually I ran out of elastic at the one end. In a last ditch effort, I tied the elastic to the jump ring with a double knot and put super glue on it. When I tried on the necklace, however, it gave choker a whole new meaning. Then when I stretched it slightly, the tied end pulled apart. I threw up my hands in disgust. I’m still mad thinking about it. I love the designing process but I suck at finishing. I know it just takes practice but I’ve grown to hate those little seed beads now. They are evil. I will try one more time with these things and then I’m giving up on this project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m very frustrated with this jewelry making thing at the moment. I hate the little seed beads with a passion! I see now why they aren’t used in most pieces. They don’t have enough weight to keep the wire I bought from twisting, and you can’t hide the knot if you use stretch magic. I heard you can use crimp beads with the stretch magic, so I tried that last night. It didn’t go well. The first crimp went surprisingly easy, but I ran into major trouble with the second one. I’d either break the crimp bead or it wouldn’t flatten enough to keep the stretch cord from slipping out. Eventually I ran out of elastic at the one end. In a last ditch effort, I tied the elastic to the jump ring with a double knot and put super glue on it. When I tried on the necklace, however, Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}