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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 necklace for a relative. Of course, it had to be perfect. Therefore she turned to Kazuri Beads!
A Bead A Day
Want to stand out from across a crowded room? These Electric… More »
Seed bead artist: Paula Huckabay
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 a jewelry designer of many years I am always learning new things and I find myself drawn more and more to working with seed beads. It is one of… More »
Seed bead artist: Dawn Dalto
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 the road are not a bad thing?
Taking her marketing tasks seriously, Dawn is a very busy girl online, maintaining several websites and also selling through several pattern sales sites:
http://www.bluebearbeads.com
http://bluebearbeads.etsy.com
http://bead-patterns.com
http://sova-enterprises.com
http://www.dawndalto.net
http://www.artistwrangler.com
Dawn writes:
During… More »
Bead & jewelry blogging round-up!
Earthenwood Studio Chronicles:
Melanie unleashes her grumpy feelings with a little rant and a bead sale!
Jean Campbell
A mystery package is the catalyst for this creative challenge. Up for it? You could win a free book!
Lorelei’s Blog: Inside the Studio
Lorelei had a chance, a while back (2008) to have a nice little interview with etsy seller, Patina Queen! This is Lorelei’s wire supplier, and she ROCKS!
Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
jean is breathless with delight when she receives… More »
Jewelry artist: Justyna Jastrzebska
Justyna Jastrzebska has created a blog called JewelryClassroom, where she shows you many of her unique a gorgeous techniques for making stunning jewelry! You definitely are going to want to visit her and see all that she’s up to! Here is a link to one of her jewelry making videos to get you started.
Justyna writes:
If I could pick one word to describe my most burning passion, it would be individuality.
Growing up in Poland played a monumental role in this. Poland… More »
Zulugrass winners!
Yay for Shay and for Debra B, the two winners of Zulugrass jewelry! I’m very excited for them, and will be shipping their pieces off just as soon as I hear back from them :-)
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Jewelry at the Luce Center
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art has a fabulous jewelry collection. The Luce is one of the less well-known of the Smithsonian Museum family. If you won’t be taking a trip anytime soon to Washington DC, the Luce’s website thoughtfully displays a certain amount of the collection for your viewing pleasure right online!
Ginny Ruffner
You’ll find everything from modern lampwork and fused glass to mixed media assemblage, fabricated metalwork, bead weaving, and historic pieces. This museum is well worth the… More »
Bead & jewelry blogging round-up!
Cindy Gimbrone aka The Lampwork Diva:
Inspired by the color of summer gardens in a seed catalog, Cindy creates a new bead.
Earthenwood Studio Chronicles
Celebrate the many uses of Ice Resin with Melanie’s blog latest blog series which highlights some of her newest works.
Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean is embroiled in a conundrum–help a girl out!
The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Working with Jill MacKay’s new line of decorative bezels, Andrew experiments with resin and takes advantage… More »
Zulugrass: a socially conscious giveaway
I want to introduce you to Zulugrass, one of the lines of natural material jewelry marketed by The Leakey Collection. The company was founded in 2002 by Katy and Philip Leakey when a devastating drought in Kenya (2001) forced the men to leave behind the women and children, so they could take the surviving cattle far up country in search of grazing land. The Leakey’s found themselves helping to support as many as 100 Maasai families by giving them… More »
How to get your work featured on Jewelry & Beading
There’s really no mystery! If you’d like to share a piece you’ve made, all you have to do is shoot me an email to cyndi @ b5Media.com (remove the spaces). Please put jewelry & beading image to share in the subject line. We love to read about things like what inspired you to make the piece and any challenges that you faced, so tell us a bit about yourself and the image that you’re sending. Please size… More »
Embroidery stitches with beads
This is slightly different from what we normally think of as “bead embroidery”. Embroidery with beads uses small seed beads to create traditional embroidery stitches that you would normally do with embroidery floss. The Bead Wrangler has a good introduction to this art form if you’d like to give it a try. There are several adjustments that you’ll need to make when you decide to start filling your embroidery stitches with beads, and she goes over all the basics! … More »
Bead & jewelry blogging round-up
Carmi’s Art/Life World:
Carmi attempts to explain how one necklace turns into two.
Cindy Gimbrone aka The Lampwork Diva
An addition to the Grunge Bead Series – Grunge Faux Bois!
Earthenwood Studio Chronicles
Melanie shows off the necklace she made for the Bead Soup Party: a delicious blend of stone, pearls, glass, ceramic, and brass ingredients.
Lorelei’s Blog: Inside the Studio
The connection you can have with a customer, is a treasure. Collaborating on a necklace, Lorelei and JoAnn create a wonderful keepsake.
Snap out of it, Jean!… More »
Giveaway: Murano glass jewelry
Some of you might remember how much I enjoyed my trip to Murano when I visited Italy. One of the highlights of our entire Italy trip was visiting one of the glass factories there. Even before that, I had a fondness for the beautiful glass beads that are the unmistakable legacy of the glass industry there.
Murano Glass Gifts Co. carries some of the finest glass jewelry, beads, and hand-crafted gifts in the world. Its selection boasts… More »
Results: Bloggers to watch
Sheryl Stephens sent me her list of the top 10 jewelry and beading bloggers that she enjoys reading in answer to my Question of the Month. The last one listed is her own :-)
Send me your list (please include the urls) and I’ll be delighted to post the people that you love to read. Make sure you include your own site!
Kate McKinnon – www.katemckinnon.wordpress.com
Marcia DeCoster – www.maddesignsbeads.blogspot.com
Beverly Ash Gilbert – www.beverlygilbert.blogspot.com
A Bead A Day – www.abeadaday.blogspot.com
Kerrie Slade -… More »
Bead & jewelry blogging round-up!
Barbe Saint John – New Jewelry from Forgotten Artifacts:
Are you a follower? Barbe has a giveway for her blog readers.
Carmi’s Art/Life World
Carmi did “knot” stress out making this new necklace!
Cindy Gimbrone aka the Lampwork Diva
With the help of Vintaj brass, Cindy whips up a set of tethered butterfly earrings with her bronze floral charms.
Earthenwood Studio Chronicles
Melanie reveals the delicious ingredients she received for the Bead Soup Party.
Lorelei’s Blog: Inside the Studio
Lorelei’s blog has a new look. And she heads to… More »
Question of the Month: Bloggers to watch
Darren Rowse over at Problogger posed the question a few weeks ago, who are the bloggers that you consider to be Bloggers to Watch? Darren’s world focusses on, of course, blogging itself, so while most of the suggestions he got are folks who blog about blogging, I started thinking that most of us probably prefer reading about beads, beading, jewelry making…
So, do you want to share your list of Bloggers to Watch? If so, put together your top ten (please… More »
Wilde Jewels by Cassandra Graham
“And just think…..all I ever wanted was a box of 64 colors!!”
So says extraordinary bead artist Cassandra Graham. You’ll need to set aside some serious time to take in all of Cassandra’s gorgeous pieces on her website, Wilde Jewels. Amazing pieces live there, like this delicious piece called Empress, voted Best in Show at the Lebanon Festival of the Arts, 2005.
Cassandra considers herself a lucky woman, having managed to make her living as an artist. She started as a… More »
Jennifer Stumpf’s etched metal
I’ve totally fallen in love with Jennifer Stumpf’s pretty etched metal pendants. She sells them through her etsy shop called It’s in the Metal, where she also features finished jewelry. Here’s one of my favorite little pieces:
A wonderful combination of copper and sterling silver, they are etched, stamped, patinaed, drilled, and signed on the reverse. If you’ve seen the Fall 2009 issue of Stringing magazine, you’ll recognize this particular pendant. There are others that I love as well.
Images: Jennifer… More »
In search of a prettier circle…
I never worried too much about my sloppy flat peyote circles, because I’m not a beader who’s particularly into strict geometric forms, but I might have to change my wicked ways now!
I found Jean Campbell’s instruction for circular flat peyote stitch in the most recent issue of Beadwork (Feb/Mar 2010). Here’s the thing: it’s wicked easy to do and to keep track of what you’re actually supposed to be doing, rather than trying to just feel your way and figure… More »
Bead & jewelry blogging round-up!
Art Bead Scene:
Meet the pretty girl with lots of brains plus a whole lotta soul!
Carmi’s Art/Life World
After a week at CHA Carmi chooses the sweater surgery necklace as her favorite event.
Cindy Gimbrone aka The Lampwork Diva
Instead of biting her fingernails down to the nub, Cindy makes Grunge Beads!
Earthenwood Studio Chronicles
Melanie looks to the skies for the inspiration for some new cloud carvings
Jean Campbell
Jean met up with two very cool artists this… More »
