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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 … More
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 … More
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! … More
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 … More
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 … More
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
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
