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Seed bead artist: Annika deGroot

Mar 6, 2010 5:00am

What do you get when you mix seed beads with cords and fibers? If you’re Annika deGroot, you get gorgeous work and a book too! Annika is the author of Micro-Macramé: 30 Beaded Designs for Jewelry Using Crystals and Cords and the creator of lovely bead and fiber jewelry. You can...

Bead & jewelry blogging round-up!

Mar 5, 2010 5:33am

Katie’s Beading Blog: Surf on over to Katie’s blog for ideas about making your own chain, layering components, and easy earrings. Lorelei’s Blog: Inside the Studio The answers still hold true in this interview that Lorelei had with herself back in 2008. Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done! Jean made a...

Question of the Month: keeping resolutions?

Mar 5, 2010 5:00am

Once a couple of months have passed by, I find I need to revisit my (often ambitious) list of business and personal goals for the year and ask myself the Question of the Month: Which new year’s resolutions am I actually going to keep? So I’ll ask you too: Which of...

Seed bead artist: Paula Huckabay

Mar 4, 2010 5:00am

Paula loves to play with seed beads. Well, actually, it seems that Paula loves to play with beads of all different types! But for today, I want to share some of her beautiful seed bead designs with you. Visit Pacific Jewelry Designs to see more of Paula Huckabay’s work. Paula writes: As...

Seed bead artist: Dawn Dalto

Mar 3, 2010 5:00am

Although Dawn Dalto started out her jewelry business like most of us, thinking that she would like to make a living by selling her beadwork, she ended up following a path that led her more into pattern design and sales! Isn’t it great to know that bends and twists in...

Celebrating seed beads!

Mar 2, 2010 5:00am

I love to come back around to seed beads every so often, because for many people, the little darlings are what define “beading”. Sure, there’s stringing, wire-wrapping, mixed media, and much more…and they are all wonderful. But there’s something magical about teeny little seed beads. When you finish a project,...

The fashion decade in review

Mar 1, 2010 5:00am

For my fashionistas, I found a treat for you! Emma Sibbles has taken up her pen (or more likely, her keyboard) and has scanned the decade from 2000 to 2009 to find the winners and losers for us in the fashion wars. Her observation that hit me hardest was concerning the...

Calling all Local Bead Stores!

Feb 28, 2010 5:00am

I told you about the Beadhive, my local bead store that is run by my friend Cyndi Wright. Well, there are great local bead stores (aka LBS) all over the country, but I don’t know about them. Sure, I can google some search terms, but seeing their web pages online...

The Basics: Information and tutorials

Feb 27, 2010 5:00am

Every so often I feel that I need to look back over the Jewelry & Beading blog and update our list of all the posts that will give you the basic info you need to get started in beading and jewelry-making. Tammy Powley, who was the original editor of this...

Beading Arts running a sponsorship contest!

Feb 26, 2010 7:11am

Up to four people will be picked to have a banner ad running on Beading Arts for one month, free! You do not have to run a jewelry or art related site to be considered. Deadline: March 27, 2010 Post from: Jewelry and Beading Post from: Jewelry and Beading...