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New steampunk book by Jean Campbell
It’s at the publisher’s! Read a bit more on Jean’s blog.
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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…
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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…
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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!
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Jewelry at Historic New England
Looking at other time periods’ and cultures’ jewelry can be inspirational. In Jewelry at Historical New England (located in Boston), there’s a couple of things I really like — there’s a pair of earrings circa 1885 that would translate well to beads and wire. The seed pearl brooches from 1823 are great (though I wish…