Jewelry Making is worthwhile and fun (image is from http://www.flickr.com/photos/)

Jewelries are part of the girls’, ladies’ and women’s everyday lives. It’s a very effective way to enhance the asset of a person or jazz a rather drab outfit, like twitching the look of basic white blouse and jeans into a dazzling style.

Jewelry Making dates back to around 40,000 years ago when the earliest artifacts of jewelry were found in Cro-Magnon dwelling according to www.theoriginof.com. These forms of jewelry were crudely made and were crafted from shells, bones, sinew, mammoth tusks and mother of pearl.

To some, it symbolizes not just fashion sense but also the status of a woman in a society. In Egypt for example, jewelry became a symbol of power, worn only by the pharaohs, the nobility and the rich.

Some professional models, stylists and image consultants later in their careers venture to jewelry making as they have already built a rich stylish experience, not to mention clients to buy their creations, to express it in the jewels they will make. Their idols, ultra popular celebrity friends, lush nature they grew up on (leaves, flowers, fields), life’s highlights, special events, world landmarks, and even exotic travels are the usual suspects from where inspiration thrive and creation thru jewelry making bloom. You don’t need to live such a high life though for you to make your own Jewelry. You can start one right at your home just with what you have in your room cabinet, your attic or even your surrounding (see those dried twigs?).

Jewelry making is as diverse as your imagination. There is no boundaries. As they say, sky is the limit. With the aid of your raw materials (beads, sequins, hemps, Swarovski crystals, shells, copper, brass, polymer clay, bead crochet, wire, string, old jewelries and pricey gems) and your whip of inspiration and strike of creativity, you can sure make an obra you’ll be proud of. Fret not if you don’t know the terms or the right materials yet. Your imagination can do wonders with what you have. The next thing you know, you have already fashioned your own earrings, ordained bracelets and wear your pendants.

The benefits of Jewelry Making are tremendous. Whether a hobby or a business, you will find out as you go on that it is more of a therapy, like shopping. It will take away your mind from thinking of the everyday stress. The enjoyment is priceless. Aside from your own jewel you can wear, (later on it will be like a silent bragging right) you can also share them to your friends. They’ll be doubly happy since they are both flattered and the fact that you take time to make it.

Now, if you already have the inspiration, further information will help you boost your new-found worthy activity, Jewelry Making. You can get it usually in a section of a Women’s magazines, more can be seen in specialty magazines and lastly there is the vast resource called the World Wide Web.

To help you with that burden, we have checked the websites you can explore. Have an eye for a lot of free stuffs like how-to-do projects, patterns, creative techniques, e-books and booklets. You can also get a lot of significant pointers from interviews, forum posts and the community of like-minded people. Lastly, you can also subscribe to their newsletters or online community and some will even give you more free stuffs just by doing that!

Being a pennypincher that I am, I guess all these free stuffs are already enough. You can also check You Tube or any video hosting sites for cool demonstrations. But if you are willing to shell out a few pennies, then you can grab and put in to your electronic cart some DVDs which these sites offer. Lastly, you may visit your local bookstore for a dirtcheap price of bargained specialty magazine or book. I did this once and don’t have the intention of buying one but I happen to dig one and boy was it a treasure!

Here are the websites we have found out:

· http://www.allcrafts.net/jewelry.htm = they have such huge resource of free projects and endless possibility of jewelry crafts and beadworks.

· http://jewelry making.about.com = this website will give you practical projects to work on. Their instructions are pretty simple to follow. For starters, we do recommend to take a longer look at this site.

· http://www.how-to-make-jewelry.com/= the site caters for both the beginners and the more seasoned jewelry artists. We find the pictures of the creations inspiring enough to probably create your next project. Links are less crowded which means better understanding navigation of the site for you.