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31

You can be a STAR, baby!!!!!

March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment

 

Interweave has put out the Casting Call of their inaugural Bead Star competition and the debut of a new magazine, Bead Star.   This is such an exciting event for the beading community—like American Idol, but for beaders! Check it out on their website. The Bead Star challenge will reward the best and brightest bead jewelry designers [...]

Mar

27

Book Review: Bead Simple by Susan Beal

March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

BEAD SIMPLE Book Review

ISBN:  9781135844424
Subtitle:  Essential Techniques for Making Jewelry Just the Way You Want It Author: Susan Beal
Publisher:  Taunton Press
Binding:  Paperback
Language:  English
Pages:  224  

Most beading books include a mix of patterns but call for specific beads and materials. This can discourage potential crafters if they don’t like or can’t easily [...]

Mar

25

Bead Expo Author Book Signings and Demos!

March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Bead Expo
Portland Announces Huge Lineup of
Author Book Signings and Free Demonstrations 
Meet nine popular authors and your favorite beading and jewelry-making magazine editors, Friday-Sunday, March 28-30, 2008 
 Bead Expo Portland 2008, March 27-30 at the
Oregon
Convention Center, has announced an exciting lineup of book signings and free how-to demonstrations with nine popular beading and jewelry-making authors, magazine [...]

Mar

25

Get your Sparkle on with Bead Romantique

March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Lisa Kan is one of those women you wish was your neighbor and good friend. She beads, she enamels, she does lampwork, she does metal work, she makes art baskets-you know she has an AMAZING work room you could spend days in…..
 Well, even if she isn’t your BFF or neighbor, you can still take a [...]

Mar

23

New Beading Blog - Beaded Jewelry Gazette and Blog

March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

Heres another beading/jewelry blog to add to your blog links! The Beaded Jewelry Gazette less than a month old, but off to a roaring start. Please check them it out and let her know what you like or would like to see. 
The description from the site: “Thoughts about the arts and crafts of producing beaded jewelry, including necklaces, [...]

Mar

22

Book Review: Simply Modern Jewelry is Simply Beautiful

March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 
Simply Modern Jewelry
Paperbound, 8½ x 10 1/4, 120 pages
150 photographs
ISBN 978-1-59668-048-7
Retail: $21.95
Release Date February 2008
Simply Modern Jewelry  shows that even a beginner can create beautiful boutique quality jewelry. Geared toward the novice beader, Editor of Stringing magazine, Danielle Fox walks you thru the process of creating your jewelry. The book starts with shopping for beads [...]

Mar

18

Revamp an Old Bangle Tutorial

March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

The Spring 2008 issue of Make It Mine is officially on sale today and its chock full of fun projects and inspiration like these bracelets. 
If you haven’t seen the magazine yet, Make it Mine’s mission is ” inspire our readers to cut loose with their creativity, using basic craft skills and readily available materials. We encourage them to [...]

Mar

16

Cut Out + Keep

March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I just came across a new crafty online community from Scotland called Cut Out + Keep.
It is an online community for crafty and creative people to make and share step-by-step tutorials. You can post your own tutorials, show off things you’ve made or  try making a project someone else has posted.  They have a section just [...]

Mar

14

Artist Interview: Carter Seibels Divali Glass Jewelry

March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

For this weeks Artist Interview, I am VERY excited to be able to introduce you all to someone that I am proud to be friends with - the EXTREMELY Talented Ms. Carter Seibels of Divali Glass Jewelry. 
Carter and I met shortly after she moved to the Bay Area about 2 or 3 yrs ago.  She is [...]

Mar

11

Free Jewelry Patterns at Freepatterns.com

March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

While doing some research today I came across the freepatterns.com website. They have patterns for some basic jewelry making as well as various other crafts. You have to become a member, but it only takes about 10 seconds and its free.
 As a FreePatterns.com member, you have unlimited access to Crochet Patterns, Cross-stitch Patterns, Knitting Patterns, [...]

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