Lisa Businka beaded bead
Lisa recently posted her instructions for making this beaded bead on her blog. The text is in Russian, but the pictures are generous and clear. I have very few beads that are not seed beads, so I started by searching for 6mm rounds, as she states. I didn’t find much in my stash, but gave…
New steampunk book by Jean Campbell
It’s at the publisher’s! Read a bit more on Jean’s blog.
Ignoring the hole on a perfectly good bead
In my feed reader, I found this post, from Lumina in Budapest, and wanted to play with the idea. I used a bezel that was inspired by some French bezels (sorry, I no longer have the link), which I also used in my rings. I did use the hole to help anchor the band of…
Molly Murphy
Molly Murphy’s work is beautiful, creative, and immaculate. She’s an Oglala artist from Montana, and makes traditional and non-traditional objects with a modern twist. She won the Best of Show award AND second place at the Heard Museum Fair and Market in Phoenix, a very large, prestigious show. Best of Show was this cradleboard, “Past…
Hungarian translation added
The upgrade on the translation plugin I use just added Hungarian. It takes a bit of time to translate it for the first time — but I know that there’s lots of Hungarian beaders, and occasionally I see a link coming in from Google translator from English to Hungarian. Cool! Thanks, Global Translator plugin!