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Have you every wondered how jewelers make these types of pieces? Well, many of us make our own tool templates, but I think they all can be traced back to the original WigJig.

WigJig is amazing. Frankly, I don’t even know who they are or how they started, but I have cruised their absolutely incredible treasure trove of a website repeatedly.

It’s like Christmas morning for me, not so much for the jewelry pictures (surprising, I know) but for the knowledge! There is *so* much knowledge all jammed up together in such a small space that it’s almost like trying to mash a square peg in a round hole. I am determined to get the information in my brain, by hook or by crook!

Listen, I confess. The website itself has so much on it that I find it a little challenging to navigate, but that is the obsessive-compulsive and anal-retentive in me speaking. I code just enough that it makes my fingers itch to want to get in there and logically organize and alphabetize and make it all foo-foo and pretty.

The focus of the wigjig website is the knowledge, not the pretty foo-foo, so even if it is hard to shuffle through for you - stick with it because the information there is just amazing. You will learn. so. much!

Even if you suffer information overload, this website is worth visiting over and over. The techniques you will learn will be worth every single moment spent.

Now let’s face it. Yes, you can create your own wigjigs at your own home with your own supplies. If you have it in you to do it, then by all means, go for it. I just don’t. It is easier for me to support wigjig.com and send them the small amount they need in exchange for the immense amount of education they provide.

Even if you do not have the budget to purchase their fine products right now, the information they provide is free of charge. Take advantage of free! A little education is always *always* a good thing. Never pass up free knowledge. And for all those people that are always searching: yes, I believe they do teach you a few different ways to wire wrap briolette stones.

Now the other neat thing to realize is that once you have the education in your brain, and once you see the pattern of how to make these fantastical pieces, you can go on to make more than just jewelry pieces. You can whip out gorgeous things like these amazing suncatchers:

And you have to admit, gifts like these have the potential to leave your recipient speechless due to your awesome “you can literally make anythingness”.

Furthermore, if you don’t feel like giving them away, you can sit at home and decorate your Christmas tree with amazing little numbers like this cute thing:

So brew up a cuppa, and find yourself a few minutes (or an hour) and sit back. Explore wigjig.com and learn some tricks. If you can spare the change, buy yourself a template so you can make some beautiful music (or more acurately, pieces). Or, if you are more crafty than that, use the instructions so kindly and lovingly provided by the Powers That Be at Wigjig.com and create your own templates.

Either way, get yourself a template and get creating. You will find yourself making wild wacky wonderful pieces of incredible art in no time whatsoever. Then, like me, you will find that the hardest part is letting them go! Seriously - I make these utterly gorgeous pieces for friends and family as gifts….and end up having to make two just so I can let one go away from me.

Thanks wigjig.com, for making all this information and education available to us. Keep doing what you are doing, because we love it.

via Wigjig website

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