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Registration has now opened for the workshops at BeadFest Portland, to register, click here. Remember as posted earlier, Portland BeadFest is the 24th – 27th of September.

It looks like there are some great workshops taking place.  The bracelet pictured here…

Fire Mountain Gem and Beads are having a big close-out sale on certain lines of beads.

Here is what they have to say about it:

The $3 Bead-a-Rama is back! Stock up on limited inventory closeout buys, starting under $3. Fill your bead box…

Shirley Anne Sherris’ new book Embroidered Jewellery is now available on Amazon.

This book discusses using hand and machine embroidery techniques to create pieces of jewelry.  It comes with projects for the reader to create and discusses topics such as how to…

Leslie Rogalski of Step-by-Step Beads discusses here why she would suggest working with shorter treads – to make a few reasons, less tangling and faster beading. It is a helpful little article.

If you are ready to take the step and stop…

The Fall Challenge by the Editors of Stringing is to come up with a beaded or wire worked project on the theme “Around the World”

Projects should be photographed and sent to the editors for judging no later than September 7th.  All…

Beading Daily is hosting a earring swap, which sounds like fun. It is to celebrate Denise Peck’s new book 101 Wire Earrings.

The basics are:  make a pair of earrings and send them in with a self addressed stamped envelope and…

If you live in the Silicon Valley area and are interested in Silver Clay, you might me interested in Cynthia Scott’s class at the Adult Community Education center.

This class is intermediate and teaches the following:

In this intermediate class, you will learn…

Israel based Russian jeweler Julishland shared images of her work on the CraftGossip Flickr Pool.

I love these intensely designed and colored pieces.  You can purchase her work at her Etsy Shop.

You…

 Marie Loughran’s new book  How to Start a Home-Based Jewelry Making Business looks like a great resource.  she covers loads of topics including book keeping, ethics, marketing, employees etc. 

If you have been enjoying your craft and playing with th idea of…

If you haven’t made it there already, there are 2 days left of the Philadelphia BeadFest.

There is an amazing line-up of workshops on all sort of subjects.  Tomorrow, just to name a few, you could learn how to make fine…

The Times-Picayune reported on two local artists giving upcoming workshops.  You can read the article here.

Vitrice McMurray will give a workshop next Tuesday on reworking old jewelry into new pieces. Great subject in today’s economy, and great for those of…

Here is a very brief pearl knotting tutorial from Little Happy Apple, who writes a crafting blog.  I love her description of herself on YouTube:

crafty adventures of a girl who still manages to make pretty things with three kids, a…

Diane Weimer will be teaching a sawing workshop in association with Connie Fox at the end of September in the San Diego area.

She creates excellent pieces using lots of sawing and patience.  You can find her work here on Flickr or here on…

Reader and crafter Ann Martin sent me links to her blog.  She does really interesting work with filigree paper jewelry.  Some of her work affixed to what she calls, “altered jewelry” and some is stand alone.  In either case is…

This is a great ring by Bloom Studios. The jeweler describes it as looking like the ocean with the dendrite inclusions forming tiny seaweed and it definitely does look like that.

I love the simple but elegant feel to all of…

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