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Do you ever find yourself thinking about a design long after you’ve seen it? A friend of mine once described this sensation as being “haunted” — but in a good way. For example, I’ve been haunted for quite some time by Noriko Romanko’s pearl and crystal...
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Last week, I started a new scrapbook after taking a break from the hobby for a few months. Whenever I do this, I notice an interesting (and slightly annoying) phenomenon. The first two or three pages of my scrapbooks tend to feature bland designs — a...
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How would you like to attend a party with Jeff Barber, Virginia Blakelock, Diane Fitzgerald, Christi Friesen, Suzanne Golden, Valerie Hector, Diane Hyde, Laura McCabe, Anne Mitchell, Lisa Niven Kelly, Sonoko Nozue, Hatsumi Oshitani, Lisa Pavelka, Cynthia...
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Last Friday I drove up to Appleton, Wis., to attend the annual convention of the National Button Society. The event is dedicated to everything button — vendors selling buttons, hobbyists buying buttons, collectors competing for prizes with displays of...
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Bead artist Heidi Kummli was recently commissioned to create beadwork for Celestial Seasonings' tea boxes. If you buy tea boxes featuring Heidi's work in October, part of your purchase will go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Heidi is...
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One of my favorite projects from the October 2008 issue of Bead&Button was "Knots of fun," a necklace designed by Lilian Chen using five different Chinese-style knots. Although it took me some time to get each knot to work properly, it was...
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Last week I had an opportunity, along with the rest of the Bead&Button staff , to attend the National Button Society Convention . Conveniently, the convention happened to be in Appleton, Wis., this year, which is only about an hour and a half drive...
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Last week, associate editor Lynne Soto wrote about pearls for first ladies (and later, she wrote about pearls on TV shows ). About the same time, the Canadian Press wrote an article about Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama’s pearls. There must be something...
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With the 2008 Olympics under way in Beijing, there are plenty of souvenirs to commemorate the event. Caps, t-shirts, pins, and coins have flooded the Internet. A few Olympic dog-tags and beads have also appeared. I suspect that some of you may be designing...
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If you are in the Bay Area of greater San Francisco, CA, in the U.S. this weekend, stop by the International Glass Beadmakers Society's Bead Bazaar on Sat., Aug. 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It's at the Marriott in the center of Oakland and will...
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I’m still playing around with ideas for a herringbone/St. Petersburg chain combination. I’ve moved past the sketching phase, and onto my next step: playing with beads. I’ve gotten into the habit of stitching little swatches of beads to try things out...
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The popularity of the single or triple strand of pearls necklace was advanced when TV viewers saw actresses wearing pearls on popular TV shows of the 1950s and ’60s. The pearl necklace was the one piece of jewelry every TV mom wore and every American...
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I just left Sonoma, Calif., for the California coast. As I sort my purchases from SoftFlex's Sonoma bead show, I'm reminded that you can find some special beads and components when you travel around a bit. Besides uncovering some good finds, I...
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Being a redhead, I typically try to stay out of the sun as much as possible. Living in Wisconsin, however, it’s hard to resist the temptation of going outdoors at every possible moment that we’re not trapped under 15 feet of snow. Hence, my summertime...
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If you’ve been out and about shopping recently, you’ve probably noticed a preponderance of small packaged candy lining the shelves. That’s right, we’re gearing up for Halloween! But before you start counting your sacks of sweets, get ready to count something...
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