Here's lookin' at you, kid. Take a gander at these unique beads and learn about their significance through history—it's more than just eye-candy!

Get ready for a sugar rush of inspiration from the world of candies and desserts! Indulge your creative sweet tooth with this appetizing article highlighting sweet-themed jewelry designs.

Beads resembling old-fashioned candy sticks. Small canes of colored glass are fused together to create a larger rod, then coated with clear glass and fired. Most cane glass beads feature "lattichino"--thin white, clear or colored candy cane-like stripes. "Slicer" beads are smaller pieces, created from slices of cane glass.

Cleverly using Czech glass flower beads as the ends of a wrapper, this delicious-looking butterscotch earring set looks sweet enough to eat.

Christmas canes in green and red make for holly-jolly dangles in this simple and elegant earring pair.

Make your own turquoise eye candy with this multi-strand project that dresses up any pair of jeans and your favorite tee. Simply follow the free step-by-step instructions for handmade success.

For a sweet holiday treat, swirl together seasonal hues of polymer clay to create these candy-inspired earrings.

This fun design is reminiscent of the candy necklaces we all loved as kids. Customers will love the lightweight feel and pop of fun colors.

The Christmas spirit can be both sweet and stylish in this beautiful candy cane-themed necklace and earrings set.

These adorable Sculpey® PREMO polymer clay candy corn earrings look sweet enough to eat! But don't do that; wear them instead!

Bursting with colorful acrylic beads and spacers adorned with rhinestones, this bracelet is dazzling wrist candy. The multiple lightweight strands are expertly held together by Powercord®, ensuring superior stretch and strength.

Add pressed glass flower beads to large, decorative beads for sweet candy-inspired earrings.

Create a delightful pair of earrings that are pure eye candy. The secret ingredients? Lampworked glass and clear pressed glass flower beads.

Show of some sweet and savory style with this tasty saltwater taffy earring set! The delicious effect is achieved with foiled glass beads and glass flowers on the ends to evoke wrappers.

Lampworked glass beads become sweet earrings with this candy-inspired design with full step-by-step instructions. Beautiful and quick to make, these easy-to-assemble earrings are ideal for group beading projects and gift-giving.

There’s no mistaking the red and white colors of a holiday Christmas Cane. Share your Christmas spirit with this pair of iconic crystal earrings.

This deliciously sweet bracelet and earring set is comprised of Preciosa Candy™ Czech glass beads for exciting shimmer and Preciosa bicones for modish texture.

Crystal Passions™ beads are strung in an iconic pattern on earrings so delicious you could just eat them up. (Please do not eat the earrings.)

Get a little holly-jolly on! Grab some findings and follow these super-simple instructions to make your own candy cane earrings.

These earrings are absolutely sweet! Ring in the holidays with sugary Christmas candy earrings.

Kit Skeoch's vibrant necklace reminded contest judges of saltwater taffy--a fitting description for a piece titled "Ochosi's Candy".

Crystal tree-shaped drops and candy cane-inspired beading hoops give these earrings a holly-jolly flair.

Create personalized wedding favors using small glass bottles and a mix of beads, candies, or other small objects to fit your theme or wedding color palette.

This bracelet design is the ultimate arm candy featuring faceted kite Crystal Passions® flat backs and Lazer Lace™ flower components. Make this design to add an attention-getting piece to jewelry sets and your own fashion wardrobe.