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The challenge theme is “It’s all about the sparkle!” Buy a $16 kit from Nancy, and embellish it in any way you want.  Final images are due to her by September 30th.  There are two really nice prizes for making yourself the tiara you so richly deserve…

The Fine Arts show is very hard to jury into, and it’s great fun to see.  A huge proportion is hanging – not many sculptures.  Here are just a few of my favorite works from the show; all but the vase and the fused glass are textiles.

Here’s some of the beadwork that was entered into Creative Activities at the Minnesota State Fair (plus one bonus piece).

If you’re out of beadwork to browse on the web (ha!), here’s the entrants of the contest Scarlett Lanson runs, beading wunderkind of Beadwork.  Here’s the A-M gallery, and the N-Z gallery.  The participating beaders purchase a kit, which they use as little or as much of as they want — except for one mystery…