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Bruce Franks Distinctive and Semiprecious beads=A nice selection of vintage beads at good prices. I’m in love with the green facetted beads in the Antique section.

 Theres a wide selection of antique, vintage and contemporary beads
for all your jewelry or beaded creations. 

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Bead and Art Glass Fest- THE SHOW for art glass, beads, flameworking, glass fusing and painting, jewelry-making, polymer and metal clay, stained glass, classes,
shopping and FUN …  Held at the Convention Center • Hall WB4
Orlando, Florida, November 16-17, 2007

Get a $2 off…

I’ve been shopping online at Jan’s Jewels for about 9 yrs or so.. She has alot of deadstock vintage brass settings, bakelite and glass cabs and other fun vintage stuff. She’s really nice and if you aren’t sure what size rhinestones go…

Beadissimo-the Mission Districts AWESOME bead store, is having a Bead Brunch this Sunday, Sept 9th. This store is a wonderful place to shop as well as take classes. I’ve taken many here and love Kate as a teacher. The store…

What a fun little tool this is! Create your own knit wire chain with the Wyr Knittr-A hand crank knitting spool. This will allow you to create a mesh knit tube that you can then use as is, fill with…

With all the talk about trends, and cocktail rings being the ‘IN’ thing, I thought I’d share an easy crochet cocktail ring pattern from Groovy Crochet Website. You could whip up a bunch of these with a metallic thread and faux…

After my post yesterday, I dug thru my bookcase looking for my books on crochet wire jewelry. Since I only just learned to knit, I don’t have any knit wire books. So I thought you all might like some recommendations and reviews.

Crocheted…

Whether you are a one of a kind jewelry artists or a production designer-its smart o know what the current jewelry trends are.

For colors=grey and white metals are the IN thing, as are purple and navy.

So whats hot jewelry wise…

Stitch Diva Studios has a number of interesting but easy to follow knit and crochet patterns for jewelry as well as clothing. You can buy them online and download immediately-which is perfect for impatient people like me.  I have a number…

The International Gem & Jewelry shows are a wonderland! Part bead show, part jewelry show, part lapidary supply with fantastic jewelry exhibits.  I use to go all the time when I was living in Columbus. I never ever went home…

Metal Chik is a weekly webisode dedicated to all things jewelry. I got a sneak peek at the website a couple of weeks ago, and knew you’d all love it.

Featuring Victoria Tillotson and her sidekick apprentice, Adam, they walk and entertain…

 

I mentioned the Whole Bead show in my last post, so thought I’d post more about it. This show travels around the country and the next one is in Providence, Rhode Island Providence, RI 
September 28-30, 2007 ,Friday & Saturday 10am…

Well, maybe just a night adorned in Venetian Beads.

I met the owners of The Venetian Bead Shop at the Whole Bead show a few months ago. They were the nicest people, happy to answer all my questions about beads as well…

If you live in the Nashville area, or will be there next weekend-be sure to check out the Bead Mercantile show in Murfreesboro.Sept 22nd & 23rd at Central Park, 521 Old Salem Rd, Murfreesboro, TN. Check the website for full vendor list…

My friend recently told me about a new blog she had come across ‘How-to-make-beads-from-Polymerclay’.  From the blogger Silastones.

This is a great blog with various polymer clay technique tutorials in slide presentation form. I haven’t played with my clay in a…

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