Chris Hartpence

How to make a Beaded Necklace

If you are into the bead craft at all, you will definitely need to know how to make a beaded necklace. Whether for yourself to wear, for your friends, your daughters, or for your customers, you will want to learn how to make a necklace especially since th... Read >

How to make Beaded Earrings in 2 Easy Steps

If you love arts and crafts, you will definitely love the art of beading. Beading is one of the latest trends when it comes to making jewelry. More and more people are running to the art of beading for leisure as well as a business venture because they se... Read >

Two Easy Children’s Beading Tips

If you are into the beading hobby and have children, we are sure that they have wanted to take part in your various beading projects. Here are a few simple and easy to follow tips that will help you when you are doing beading projects with your children. ... Read >

Tools Needed for Beadwork

As you know, every hobby that we do will require some sort of materials and tools necessary to accomplish that hobby. In this case, we will take a look at the most valuable tools that are needed for the beadwork hobby, regardless if you do it for fun or a... Read >

More Beadwork Ideas For Fun and Profit

If you’re interested in beadwork as more than just a hobby, but also as a potential means of putting money in your pocket, then picking the right projects to focus on can greatly influence your success or failure. Below are some of the more popular profi... Read >

Making your Beading Projects Profitable

One challenge faced by many hobbyists who want to turn their bead craft profitable lies in producing your designs in sufficient quantity to produce sustainable profits. This is especially true if your preference for beading projects runs to necklace/brac... Read >

Beading Projects – 5 Fun Halloween Designs

Halloween is fast becoming the most popular holiday in the country, currently second only to Christmas, and the holiday actually outranks Christmas in terms of money spent on decorations, food, and drink (the reigning champion of holiday party spending is... Read >

Beadwork Ideas – 3 Tips for Kids

If you’ve been doing beadwork for any length of time at all, you know how engrossing it can be. If you have children, then you’re probably always on the lookout for new free beading ideas, so you can share your hobby with them. Below are a trio of beadw... Read >

Beading Projects – The Importance of Marketing

This information in this article is predicated on two assumptions: That you have one or more beading projects you’d like to make profitable, and that you have some level of inventory at the ready for when sales begin coming in. If that’s you, then this ... Read >

Beading Ideas For Fun and Profit

It is fairly simple to turn your beading ideas into saleable products on a small scale, as you will likely give some of your creations away, have others on display around your home, or (in the case of jewelry) be wearing some of your favorite pieces out a... Read >

Beading Ideas! – 5 Ways to Boost Your Creativity

Are you in a creative rut? Inspiration all dried up? Or maybe you’re just looking for some new ideas to keep both inspiration and interest up! If any of those apply to you, then you’ve come to the right place! Below, you’ll find 5 beading ideas that m... Read >

Beading Ideas

Bead Craft is a simple and fun hobby that anyone, of any age can enjoy. The beauty of bead craft is that it’s so easy to learn the basics, and with only a minimal investment in materials and supplies, even a complete beginner with absolutely no prior exp... Read >

Learning How to Bead

I suppose there are more than a few people who would look at this article’s title, “Learning How to Bead,” and write it off as silly. After all, there’s not much more to the mechanics of beading than there is to stringing popcorn to put ‘round the Christ... Read >

Beading Ideas – 5 Fun Christmas Designs

Christmas is the season of fun, and if you’re a fan of beading and bead craft, then you can use your passion for the hobby to fuel a whole new look for your home this holiday season with a collection of free beading projects! If you’re looking for fun Ch... Read >

Bead Craft – Tools of the Trade

A topic not much discussed in articles concerning bead craft is what I like to all “optional equipment.” Understandably, most bead craft articles focus on the beading projects, or the beads themselves and various discussions revolving around patterning, ... Read >