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Book Review: Making Metal Beads

Making Metal Beads by Pauline Warg This is an astounding book! Like all Lark Publications, it is filled with beautiful photographs, in this case close-ups of lovely fabricated metal beads and the...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: book & magazine reviews, metal fabrication, wearable art, book review, metal-beads
Call for entries: Auntie’s Beading Idol!

What’s Up WednesdayHow fun! Auntie’s Beads is sponsoring an American Idol style contest with a May 1 deadline.All you have to do is send in your design using only Auntie’s...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: beading, call for entries & submissions, non-wearables, wearable art, beads
Call for entries: Bead Arts Awards

What’s Up WednesdayA contest open to any bead artist, sponsored by Step-By-Step Beads and Jewelry Artist (the former Lapidary Journal).Deadline for entries: May 1, 2008 To enter the Bead...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: beading, call for entries & submissions, non-wearables, wearable art
Guest tutorial by Leah Hitchcock-Ybarra: Felted bead earrings

Technique Tuesday! You may remember the wonderful artist profile that Leah shared with us back in December…she primarily makes gorgeous wire and stone jewelry pieces. Well, recently, Leah has...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: beading, fiber & beads, mixed media, other bead & jewelry sites, technique tuesday
Royal Pearls necklace

Make Art Monday!Royal Pearls This is another necklace that I’ve made for Jewelry Crafts magazine.  I’ll be sending it off real soon for inclusion in an upcoming issue.  It’s a...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: beading, jewelry crafts magazine, make art monday, mixed media, wearable art
The Basics - information & tutorials to get you started

I spent some time looking back over the Jewelry & Beading blog, and I decided that it was way past time to make a list of all the posts that will give you the basic info you need to get started...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: basics - getting started, beading, tutorials & techniques, wearable art, beads
Artist Profile: Lori Greenberg

Artist: Lori Greenberg Location: Cave Creek, Arizona Website & Blog: Lori Greenberg Bead NerdHow do you describe your work, Lori? The tagline on my web site is “defying the ordinary”. I like to...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: artist profiles, designing, jewelry business tips, lampwork & fused glass, wearable art
Creations by Lonni

Art Attack Thursday!Lonni Tanksley has always had a passion for the creative arts. Growing up in Philadelphia, she studied acting at Freedom Theatre and ballet at Philadanco. Later, she obtained a...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: beading, mixed media, other bead & jewelry sites, wearable art, wire
Winners of the BeadStyle magazine issue!

Congratulations to Diana (Voyager 459), Laurie R (Lovesangels44), and Meredith Peters!!  Each has won a free copy of the March issue of BeadStyle Magazine! Share This

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: book & magazine reviews
Call for entries: Fire Mountain Gems contest for 2008

What’s Up Wednesday!If you buy supplies from Fire Mountain Gems, then you should seriously think about entering their contest! I did for the last two years, and won a second and third place...

Started in Jewelry & Beading • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: beading, call for entries & submissions, designing, wearable art, beads