Make your own sparkly day or evening necklace

More Bulk Buy Beads

We have added more beads to our bulk section.  You can now by 1Kg bags of Plain Glass Beads, Rainbow Finish Beads, Matt Beads, Luster Beads and semi lampwork and plain mixes.

Now you can make your own comments

We have decided that it is about time we allowed our readers to make comments on our blog.  You can comment on the designs and let us know if they worked out for you or if you want to see some other kinds of styles.  Also let me know if a video demo would be useful to you.  I will be posting some more designs in the next few days.

How to make a simple necklace

This is a simple necklace on waxed cotton cord, using a silver foil heart and a combinations of luster and rainbow small beads.

Cut a length of waxed cotton cord (depending how long you want it to be).  String a small bead in the middle then put both ends through the middle of the large heart bead.  Thread a couple of beads either side of the heart and finish with a bead at each end tied either side.

If the end of your waxed cotton cord gets wooly, light a candle and dip the end in some hot wax.  Some beads are difficult to thread as the hole seems too small, it is usually that there is some glass dust.  You can remove this either with a professional bead clearer or a paper clip/pin will do the trick.

Bollywood Necklace

Bollywood Necklace

I thought it was about time I added some examples of jewellery made with AllMarshall Gems beads.  This is a Bollywood Necklaces made with Bollywood Beads, Cotton Beads, Hollow Metal Beads, Silver Foil and some other glass beads.  They are easy to make and look fab day or evening (I have a few in different colours).  You can either put them on some cotton cord or any other leather, ribbon, etc.  Choose the beads you want to use and tie knots either side of the bead, you may need to put smaller beads either side to avoid the knot sliding through.  To finish of the ends push the cord through from either side of a beads (needs to have a big enough hole) tie a knot and pull it back on itself.  Make sure the cord is long enough to go over your head.

Feature in Make Jewellery

Look out for our Bollywood Pink and Gold beads in Make Jewellery Magazine Issue 3 out today.

Welcome to AllMarshall Gems first Blog

This is the first for AllMarshall Gems, we thought it was about time that we had a blog.  I know its a bit like keeping up with the Jones’s but there you go.  First of all we would like to say we hope that you are enjoying the new look website.  We have made it much easier for you to enlarge the pictures of the beads by just clicking on them.  We hope that our new navigation is easier to use too.