Love bracelet number 2 the best but number 1 is pretty too.

I hope you up-cycle to your heart's desire! It keeps beads, etc out of landfills! So..have fun! I am learning so much from you! I had to take a break from my bead table yesterday because it didn't feel fun. And I agree with you that it should be fun. Enjoyable! Time is precious and we can't get it back. Thank you!

Thank you Vickie and Mark for sharing your talents! I enjoy watching and learning.🌻🌻🌻

I nice to meet Mark. I would love the see his jewelry. I am so glad that you’re gonna be staying with us. I’m making jewelry. I have learned so much from you. Thank you so much.

This set is beautiful Vicki!

I love how you up scale your jewery. You are a real blessing. I'm a beaded Too! I enjoy designing. I weaved mostly. Thank you for sharing God Bless you and your your husband, take care nancy

What a terrific idea using lobster clasps making the entire creation interchangeable!! Super fun project!!! I LOVE mixed metals but all my creations are static, can't change anything out. This is a really neat idea!! I did my first upcycling this morning (sort of) by taking a gorgeous old brass necklace with beautiful unique beads, removing the damaged beads and was able to make a bracelet and earring set from the best beads. I'd like to take credit for it but the vintage/antique spectacular beads are the stars!!!❤

You do beautiful work- keep up the good work. I am 81 and have been doing beads as long as I can remember- I wish I could be more enthusiastic. Love your work - never stop.❤

Your story sounds almost identical to mine! Spent 20 years (70-90s) in the craft business and did WELL!! My best day at a 12-day show in the North GA mountains was a few dollars shy of $20k - in 1984!!

Beyond thrilled that I found your channel!! I have boxes and boxes of my mom's and grandmother's jewelry, and each piece means the world to me. However, they are costume pieces that I cannot wear frequently. I absolutely LOVE your ideas - I can keep the beads/pieces and upcycle to new jewelry. So excited to make bracelets and earrings. Thank you for helping me keep these special pieces alive...and honoring the jewelry my mom and grandma wore.

You have inspired me to take my stash and redo them into something new. My husband died more than 20 years ago. I still miss him .He was always there to help me no matter what I was working on, even sewing. I was always shocked about what he could do. If I needed a stool, all I had to do was ask, and I had it. He supported me always. I never worried about anything as long as he was alive. As always, cherish your husband and partner.😊❤

You are my absolute FAVE KZbin people of all time! I make jewelry as well and I am always inspired when I watch your videos. You all seem like such genuinely nice & fun people. Keep up the great work and videos! Much success & blessings in this new year!

I really didn’t think you was gonna pull it off with those necklaces at first lol. But it really turned out beautiful. You are such an inspiration for me. The possibilities are truly endless.

Happy New Year to you and Mark. I have enjoyed all of the jewelry videos you have been putting out and I truly can appreciate the hard work it takes. I too did craft and booth shows selling my own version of upscaled jewelry. I took vintage jewelry and changed and updated them to my own version of repurposed necklaces, earring and bracelets. I know and understand all the work that it takes to do shows. Thanks so much for sharing your story. Best wishes! Lynn

Thank you for your videos. I enjoy watching them. What I don't understand about selling on eBay, is how there are sellers who sell their handcrafted earrings for like $4- $5. How are they making any profit at all like that? Even if they pay $0.50 to make each pair there is still time put into making them that is not being accounted for. I just don't get it.

I really enjoy your videos! Thanks for what you do!

They are all beautiful! My favorite is number 4 😊

Really enjoyed hearing about the history of your journey through jewelry making. I am retired from dental hygiene basically because of hand arthritis like your husband. I feel his pain! I love to thrift and have been doing upcycling jewelry for fun. My Mom and I had a jewelry passion and I miss sharing the things I make with her. Sometimes I sell things in the hospital gift store where I volunteer and just love when I can make someone smile if they look at my jewelry. I Love watching your videos. They are so well done and always give me a little push to make something. Don't let any of those negative comments stop you from doing what you love. Everyone is not nice and maybe they have some real problems in their lives that make them negative. But it does hurt to see words in black and white without any voice inflection. I usually do not comment much but I was moved by your video as it hit home with my life. Take care. Enjoy what you do and remember that there are so many more positive vibes than negative ones. You are very fortunate to have a husband who supports and loves you. Loved when he gave you a kiss!!!

That crimping tool drives me NUTS! I have found HL brand to be pretty sorry in the sewing notions. I think the quality of the crimp bead makes a lot of difference.

I loved this video about how you got started and it was so fun to get to know you both! I enjoy your videos and you have encouraged me to just have fun making jewelry! Keep up the great work!

Happy New Year! I recently stumbled across your channel and I’m really enjoying watching you upcycling the vintage pieces.

Happy New Year - and your enthusiasm is contagious. Keep the videos coming - and the tip for using big hole beads is priceless!

I love watching your videos ❤

Hollo Beautiful and amazing LADY! I am so very happy, and great full for finding you in this fascinating cyber world, and virtual technology... thank you for shearing your lovely ideas with so many of Us; my dear Lady you commented that some individuals respond to you Unkindly; well please do not fill offended, they are not talking about YOU; they are just introducing them selves, for that is the only way that they how! Keep up the good work... I love every minute of it! Thank you; GOD Bless you, your husband, and the Avante Jewelry Happy New Year!!!

Well done you two! It’s an honour and a pleasure to meet you. Welcome aboard as we go together on the adventure called 2025! With love and great respect, Wendy in 🇨🇦

You are a very lovely person and I could listen to you for hours. Your voice is so soothing. Don't let bad comments bother you. Just block them! Love you ❤️

So nice to really get to know you. Oh boy, do I know about doing those shows. 😆 I'm 80 and done, except I have tons of crafting items. I guess my kids have to take care of everything after I'm gone.😊 my younger son told me that he would throw everything behind me in the grave, and on the gravestone, he would write, "Here lays the underground crafter" 😅

Huga

I started an inspirational channel a few months ago.

Thank you for sharing!

You definitely inspired me

I think you are both wonderful people. Loved this video learning about both of you. Thanks for sharing.

Your videos have helped me recover after the loss of my dadda last March 🙏🏼💜🇦🇺🦘🐨

I enjoy watching you up-cycle jewelry, I found you by accident and so glad I did. The two of you and your life story together is so touching, reminds me of my husband and myself. You have done a great job at making this video, please keep making them. It’s so nice to listen to real people, thank you.

Enjoying getting to know you both

Yall are so cute together and Mark I can see why you sold so much your jewelry is awesome and I love watching your Chanel

I’ve thought of trying eBay as my website isn’t getting any sales. I’ve been nervous about the fees.

Yay! I love watching y'all, glad to meet you both and i cant wait for more😊

I have joint issues with my fingers and thumbs so I feel for you Mark.

Nice to meet Mark and Happy NewYear. Enjoy your videos

Vicki and Mark...don't pay any attention to negative comments. Don't those people know they are able to just click off if it's not the right youtube for them. You guys make me smile, and I really enjoy watching you. I too am in your age group and you inspire me with every video. I clicked into the Jewelry just recently and it has peaked my interest. Being a novice I would like if you would talk about the different beads - how you know what they are made of and how you know which beads would make a good up-cycle. How do you know if something is plastic or a real pearl for instance. ALSO...when will Avante Avenue be back??? - Ebay finds are truly my fun. Thanks for all the great info you share on both channels!

You two are so cute! Loved seeing the little smooch on the cheek Mark! So sweet.

So glad I chanced upon your posts… very informative and inspiring!

I love your channel, and you have become an inspiration to me and my jewelry business. I am learning from you. I enjoyed this video with you, and Mark, yous two are adorable, and I loved it and I am looking forward to your next video. Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed it.

I’m in Canada too

i really enjoyed this video. i too make chainmaille and dabble with beading. im a magpie i guess. id like to watch marks maille projects and i get inspired by your bead creation video. the christmas video series was great. im a nurse and canadian haha chainmaille is a side gig happy new year! dont change a thing!

I've been watching Avante Avenue since a couple of my fragile items got broken in the mail. After learning so much from you, not even the callous tossing of many fragile items by the local USPS guy had a single broken piece. I found this channel when I came looking for some new Avante Avenue videos and admire your ambition to juggle so many ventures. Thank you for sharing with the rest of us.

It’s a wonder we never ran into each other at some of the places you were showing in Ohio. I’m originally from Portage Lakes, south of Akron. My husband and learned how to wire wrap jewelry from Barbara Massey at V-Rock in N Canton. As we got better at it we decided that we would do shows. We had a great time at it. We moved here to Missouri the last part of 2021 . He passed away Jan. 24, 2023. I just started making and selling Jewelry again under the name TdBinks. I just recently started watching your KZbin videos. You do a great job. Glad I found your channel. God bless you from a former Buckeye.

I love your videos, you have inspired me, I am 73 and never too old to learn more, you think out of the box, and I look at my own vintage jewelry in a new way, my husband, daughter and I have started a small business making jewelry and other accessories for cell phones, tumblers, purses, it’s jewelry for those items. Thank you so much for sharing your story.

Dear, in 2019, I started looking at videos about wire wrapping with Cooper. Took me one year to start to find the proper places to buy wire, stones, etc ...etc...etc... Do I sell it ? No! I do it for the trill to learn. I love your channel! Why? You are calm, take risks, and pleasant in the way you talk about your jewelry. I'm 68 years old and always learn something new. I wish you and your husband a great 2025 and many new years to come. God is Good!