Class Description: Use your creativity to make a beautiful basic chain link necklace using sterling silver wire, beads, and other embellishments. You’ll learn how to make simple loops and wrapped loops that you will use to connect the beads in your necklace. You’ll learn how to arrange the beads to create a beautiful design using a bead board, and make a simple clasp. The instructor will provide sterling sliver wire. If time allows, you may also make a pair of earrings. Please bring the following tools, which can be purchased at Joann’s, Michaels, Hobby Lobby, or Walmart: round-nose pliers, chain-nose pliers, and flush cutters. The instructor will bring bead boards for your use during class. Bring your creativity to this fun class and leave with beautiful, wearable art! Please Note: the materials fee is not included in the tution fee. Depending on your bead selections, there will be an additional $25 - $35 materials fee due to the instructor in class.

Lunch: Lunch is included in the class fee. If you have any dietary restrictions, please note them when you register.

Instructor Bio: Candace Stribling began her love of jewelry-making after purchasing a kit at Michaels. She fell in love with the technical skills required in jewelry-making, and for the opportunity it provides for her to explore her creativity. She also fell in love with beads, especially beads from Africa, India, and other countries.

Candace took her first metalsmithing class at Glen Echo, and has since taken courses at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center in Frederick, MD and at JewelryClassDC in Washington, DC. She finds she can best express her creative abilities by forming and shaping metal. All of her pieces start as sheet or wire and end up as a piece of one-of-kind jewelry using soldering, forming, hammering, and setting stones. Candace is a Waterford Landmark Artisan, exemplifying excellence in craftsmanship and education during the Waterford Fair, and for her commitment to the Waterford Foundation.