There are quite a number of bead and jewelry subscription boxes out there but
I have to tell you that this one I'm reviewing is one of my favorites so far.
I hope you love it as much as I do. Hi there, Sandy here, welcome to another
Friday findings video at keepsakecrafts.net.
The folks at Bohem Style contacted me and asked if I would be interested in
checking out one of their bohemian DIY jewelry boxes and of course I said yes
and this is the way it came. I think it's lovely package just like a gift
something special. Packaging matters and even though you
paid for it's nice when it comes and it just looks special - so we've got this
pretty gold cord and a nice box. In the box you get everything you need to make
two unique jewelry pieces and also you get a link to a YouTube video that is
exclusive to those who purchase the boxes and that video shows you how to
put it together so unlike the Facet jewelry boxes where you get written
directions here you get access to videos - so let's take a look at what we got...
Already I am loving these colors. I like that this is a small package, it's not
huge, it's just enough to hold the beads for the project and it's just packaged
nicely. What a sweet little box, you could put fudge in that for a Christmas gift for
somebody ,or a piece of jewelry, less fattening. So what I'm wondering is there
a picture showing you what you're actually going to end up making? So I've
got a lot of beads. Wow, let's see,
oh, I just love this color scheme and I have no idea what it is we're making. Oh,
I'm guessing either a bracelet or a necklace. I've got a four strand tube
clasp and some pearls and crimp covers, bead stringing wire and little star
charms, a teeny-weeny bit of chain and some crimps. So yeah it definitely looks like
you get everything to make a project. Here are the contents of the second kit
that came in the box. I had to go online to find out just what it is we were
going to make - so that one I just opened with all the pretty lavender colors I've
got a picture up on the screen, is what they call the Christmas bracelet really
pretty lovely colors. I'll probably ditch the stars and make it for any day not
just Christmas - it would have been nice if there had been a picture in the box
of what it was we were going to make because it kind of dampened the
excitement to have to put everything down and go look rather than seeing we're
gonna make this. Now this gorgeous assortment of beads is going to make the
bubble necklace and I just really love the design of both of these projects
really nice combinations of beads, lots of nice finishing details including
crimp covers, split rings and just a nice jewelry design - comparing it to other
boxes where you get kits so far I think it's the nicest I've seen. The
other ones eh, the designs were okay but not great, but I really like this. As
I mentioned before when you open the box you get a note with a link to the video
tutorial - actually each piece of jewelry piece has its own video tutorial - they're
both about 20 minutes long and they link to each other so once you find one you
can find the other. When you go there you'll notice that there is no speaking
it's all music in the back ground but make sure and turn on closed
captions in your language and it's all captioned with the directions. So I
actually have watched the videos and the instruction is very good with, I think
like one exception. My observations on this: well, number one it would be really
nice to have a supply list included in the box or product names and color
numbers written on here, sizes - because it could get a little confusing - on the
video it's printed you know use 30303 in this spot and use this
number in that spot and I suppose that does avoid confusion but it would have
been nice to know that these are... I don't even know what kind of beads they are it
doesn't say anywhere, I would have liked to have known that because I really
liked what they did with these and maybe I want to recreate it and buy some more
of these or maybe I love this color - nowhere could I find that information so
that would have been nice. My other issue was with the bracelet project - in the
video - now I have to admit I watched it on double-speed with captions because I -
that's, yeah 20 minutes is too long for me, and I could follow it just fine but
there were some... I wouldn't say complex, but the patterns for some of the
strands of the bracelet you can see here aren't simple and a lot of these beads
look very close, like you've got all these different pearls and they've got
numbers and so they tell you the numbers but it would be very easy to get
confused and it would have been nice to have something printed or just something
that said you know do this, then that, then this, then that. I think
that would have been helpful but I'll tell you more when I come back after
I've made these projects. So I'm back after having finished my projects and I
have to say I'm really pleased with both of these. I love them both and I've
already worn this and I'm looking forward to finish
shooting this video and putting this one on to wear. So after having received the
box and made the projects I have a few pros and cons to the Bohem Style
boxes to share with you. So let me show you these, this one is the bubble
necklace, it has these beads which I have to look up and find out what they're
called but I love the way they nest together and I love that although both
strands are similar they use slightly different bead combinations on each and
it just really lends a richness to the whole piece - we have Czech fire polish
beads on the sides, those are really nice some nice details like using these
little four millimeter round beads before condensing down to a single
strand makes the transition a much more smooth, also on both ends you can see
that you actually have two crimps, they're hidden under these which are
both crimp covers and I think that's a fantastic idea, split rings instead of
jump rings gives you more security and they also give you a little head pin. I
had one extra Czech fire polish so I put two on my dangle instead of just one,
they give you a little bit of extender chain. Let's see if I can tell... mine's pretty
close, oh here it is, they give you about this much a couple inches of extender
chain but I wanted my necklace to be a little bit longer and so I added some of
my own and I was really pleased with this necklace. Here's a picture of me
wearing it. I thought it looked great and that it would go with so many different
things - just beautiful rich colors would look good in the fall and the spring.
kind of anytime really - and here's the bracelet. I love these
colors, I'm a big fan of purple as you know. Now I'm not a fan, however, of stars.
They call this the Christmas bracelet and it had these little star charms
included to put on it. That's the wrong side they're all
flipped the wrong side, let's see there you go there's the right side, they're
pretty little star charms with some nice details but I don't know for some reason
stars as a motif just don't do much for me so I got some of my own charms. I've
got a flower and a couple butterflies and I'm much happier with it this way. I
love this combination these beautiful silver Czech fire polish and faceted
beads and the pearls and the magenta. One thing I will say was in both videos they
made a point of showing you a bag of extra beads - they said you always get
extra beads with every project. Well, I got one extra Czech fire polish in this
and this was all I got of extras for this bracelet were a few of the Czech
fire polish and they showed like some of the pearls and some of the faceted beads
or a few extras of these in the bag so I didn't get any I don't think I got any
purposeful extras certainly notice none in a separate bag. As I mentioned before
I pre-watched the videos on double-speed just to get an idea of what they were
like what the instruction was like and as I suspected this one was a little
tricky to keep track of while you were doing the strands with different things
going on. They had everything laid out neatly but one of my main cons about
this arrangement of the boxes is that all of the products are identified by a
product code only I would have found it really helpful to have it say the four
millimeter metallic fuchsia Czech fire polish beads maybe that's more of a
mouthful than the numbers but just to know the the fuchsia Czech fire polish
and the the ten millimeter, the eight millimeter, the six a it would have been
I think more helpful to have had them identified not just for doing the
project but also because I wanna buy more of these. This is a
gorgeous color I just love it and I'd like to buy more and the same with these,
I'd like to know what they were. I already know these are Czech fire
polish because I'm familiar with them but if I wasn't I would have no idea, so
that is one of my main complaints. Also that the directions are only available
on video. Now video's fantastic, don't get me wrong, I make videos, but I think with
a kit we have everything together coming to you it would have been nice to have
had even just a basic overview all written down on a piece of paper and it
would have been lovely to have had these beading patterns written down. I was
almost able to keep up with her as she was beading on screen with these strands
with the patterns and if I'd wanted to, you can actually slow down YouTube
videos, you just click on the little Settings gear and you can click Speed,
and you can actually slow it down so you could lay out all your beads just like
they were on the screen and follow along. My first complaint, only product numbers
identify the components, the second complaint only video. That was one thing
I found I liked about the Facet jewelry boxes was that they have it, it's all
just written out in a little booklet so you don't even have to be online. I mean
sometimes we're just not online. My third complaint was that there was no
mention of making this bracelet fit. Now this is fine for me, it's a little big, I
just made it exactly as it came. I did check and make sure it wasn't going to
be too small before proceeding and it's a little big - granted this kind of clasp
requires that you make it maybe a tiny bit big because well, the longer the
clasp the more extra space you need to get this over like this and fasten it so
this is, yeah, I could probably have made this an inch smaller. In fact I'll show
you them on my little measuring tool. Maybe not even an inch,
and they don't mention that at all, it's just string this pattern and put it
together, there's no mention in the box even that would have been helpful to say
this bracelet makes such-and-such size, you know this these directions make
such-and-such size a bracelet, adjust your strand lengths accordingly. So this
is my little measuring tool. I'll have a link to where you can download this from
my blog and what this shows me is it will fit a 7 and a half inch wrist
just right, and this is the best way, by the way, to get an accurate... actually it's
a little longer than that, yeah it kind of falls down below so going on 7 and
3/4. I'm wearing a 6 and 3/4, 7 inch bracelet these days so it's definitely a
little bit big for me, but I'll still wear it, it's not so huge but it would
have been nice if they just said it fits this size you know in order to if you
want to adjust remove or add beads - but I love it, I'll wear it definitely. I'm not
redoing all those crimps to make it shorter. I think this is really pretty. So
those are my 3 cons for this project. The things I love is that you get absolutely
gorgeous beads and plenty of them, these projects use a lot of beads.
I love the curation of the projects they're just really nicely
classily made, "classily" is that a word? You know what I mean, they have some
class, they're just... I just love them. I can't say enough about just the quality
and the feel, there's a lot of substance and weight to this necklace and it just...
and it shows, it looks like a nicely made piece of jewelry - whereas in some of the
other kits that I've tried the end result looked kind of amateurish and I
don't think these do. So a few things about the Bohem Style boxes: your first
box is $24.99 and then it's $29.99 thereafter and
it's $5 shipping worldwide, you always get the materials for two projects and
exclusive links to videos on YouTube for how to complete your projects. Oh that
was another complaint, I had I mentioned at the beginning there were no photos in
the kit showing what you were going to make and it was a little disappointing to
have to go search online and kind of dig around and find those, so they really
should include those. This is a little bit more than other jewelry kits that
I've seen but I think it's absolutely worth it. I was sent this kit for free in
return for my honest review and if I had to spend my own money this is the one I
would buy. If I was going to give this as a gift this is the one I would buy over
any others that I've seen. It's just a nice classy presentation, it's something
I would be proud of to give to a friend as a gift and I really enjoyed getting
it for myself. So here's another yet another
subscription service to consider, oh boy how many are we getting these days? I
just kind of love them and this was a lot of fun, a really enjoyable way to
spend a couple evenings and I have something really nice as a result. So
thanks so much for watching, if you want links and more details be sure to go to
my blog post which is linked in the upper right of the video and down in the
description box. Happy creating, bye bye.
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