Blog & Beading Tutorials

Happy February! This week's DIY is a special one for us because it incorporates our newest and most sought after material ( Tortoise !), as well as one of our favorite techniques. At the bottom of the page you'll find our YouTube tutorial in both english and spanish :)

Happy Holidays! We all need a little inspiration every now and again, so today, we thought we'd share with you some of our fun and easy to make bracelets from this year. We've given lessons on how to make these bracelets in our brick and mortar store throughout the year, and we'll be posting videos and tutorials online on how to make some of them in 2014. :)

Happy Holidays! Here at AS we absolutely adore the Christmas season and we're especially excited about this week's DIY Message in a bottle necklace! As you can see, we've tailored our color choices to red, white and green. We can't wait to make a dozen of these necklaces to give to our loved ones and significant others. This is a quick and easy project that shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes to make.

Good morning! Today we thought we'd share a little bit of our office space with you as well as the inspiration for our latest video Tutorial: How to make a simple loop with wire. The technique we're teaching in our video is one of the most basic beading techniques. It's needed for almost every jewelry design. Whether you want to add some sparkle or close your necklace, you'll definitely need to know how to make a simple loop.

This week, we've created a boho chic necklace perfect for the upcoming holiday season. The cord we're using is known as Parachute cord or paracord. The parachute cord is used most to make survival bracelets, which are