By Aviva Sieradski

If you’ve ever walked on Fashion Avenue in Manhattan, around the streets numbering in the 30s, I’m sure you’ve seen the stores. Aisles of glittering and glowing beads, glass chips, spacers, dividers, and G-d knows what other accessories and findings fill them. Some of them are expensive, some of them aren’t. But all of them are there for you to create your own dream jewelry piece.

Then again, if you make your own jewelry you may be pretty subjective when it comes to having an accurate opinion of whether or not you’re being style conscious. Beads and findings of all sizes, shapes, colors and materials can make for a serious fashion accident waiting to happen.

Tomorrow, I’ll share some tips on how to create fabulous jewelry pieces to make Tiffany look like Rainbow Brite.