Category: Artists

  • Bead Dreams 2008

    Eighty works are available for viewing online, if you haven’t seen this yet.  In a quick peek, I see slews of large necklaces, as in previous years, and a few sculptures.  I don’t think I saw a single vessel.  Off to do more looking!

  • More blogs

    Here’s some more I’ve added to the blogroll: Liza biZSUterie

  • The size of the online beading world

    is very, very small! I was on a flight yesterday, sitting next to a gentleman reading a book. We exchanged hellos, then he read, and I napped and then beaded (picture in a later entry). While we were waiting to deplane, he commented on my beading, and sounded a bit knowledgeable. He said he knew…

  • Making designer jewelry with hardware, gems, and beads

    Okay, I want to go to the hardware and/or surplus store again! This brand new book is great fun. I have used rubber grommets, rubber O-rings, and pyrex connectors as parts of jewelry — and seen cotter pins and other non-jewelry components used in jewelry. The author of this book, Nichole Noelle Sherman, has a…

  • Some more bead blogs

    My latest additions to my feed reader and to this blogroll…. Handmade by Erika Lisa Businka Charlene Miss Bristling