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You might want to check out “Beads of Whimsy” at the Minneapolis Textile Center’s Joan Mondale Gallery from March 7 to April 12, sponsored by the Upper Midwest Bead Society and the Textile Center. Thirty works from the U.S., Canada, and the UK have been...
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Bead&Button Show classes can mean many things to many people. Classes offer veteran beaders a chance to apply their skills in new and unusual ways. For beginners, classes provide the opportunity to learn the basics and get a glimpse of more advanced...
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The Bead&Button VintageStyle Jewelry special issue has been on the newsstand for a few days. If you love the look of vintage jewelry and want projects to help you create Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Edwardian, Arts & Crafts Movement, or Retro...
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I have always liked stopping at antique shops on road trips with family members and friends. All of my friends know that if we pass a shop, I will probably ask to stop on the way back. I don’t look for “just the right” antique table for the living room...
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As I make the final travel preparations for my trip to Tucson, several questions keep running through my mind. How will I manage to see all the things I will want to see? How will I find and spend time with all the friends I only see at these shows? And...
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The Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America brings the MJSA Expo New York to the Jacob Javits Convention Center April 13-15 this year. The expo is billed as the largest U.S. trade show of its kind. It includes seminars on topics such as entrepreneurship...
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On p. 8 of our new VintageStyle Jewelry issue, Lynne Soto suggests asking relatives about family jewelry. Despite reading this advice numerous times during the editing process, I did not heed it! But when I showed VintageStyle Jewelry to my grandma, she...
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This week I received a notice of the winners of the 2007 All Dolled Up: Beaded Art Doll Competition. The competition was sponsored by Land of Odds, Be Dazzled Beads, The Open Window Gallery, and The Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts. This year’s...
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A couple of years ago, some of my work was featured in a Japanese beading book. I was so pleased to be featured along with other leading American bead artists, and I humbly signed autographs for several Japanese students who brought their copies of the...
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Lately, I’ve found that creating something new often involves deconstructing something old, a trade-off that never fails to make me nervous. For instance, I’m making a T-shirt quilt, which, of course, required me to take a scissors to some of my most...
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In my job as associate editor for Bead&Button , I spend my days stitching bead projects with very thin needles and very small beads. I also work on chain mail, macramé, wire- and cording-crochet, wire-wrapping, and embroidery projects. When I’m not...
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I made it through one whole week of following through with my New Year’s resolutions. In years past, if I did make resolutions, I gave up by the end of January, and that made every January the hardest month of the year. This year I gave up a bad habit...
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I’m editing articles for our April issue and it made me think about a particular aspect of creativity. It occurred to me that many times in my life, I have heard people say that left-handed people are creative. I took an informal poll of staff members...
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In thinking ’bout the year ahead, I will not harbor thoughts of dread, remembering projects uncompleted, or coffers empty and depleted. Instead I’ll plan to boldly go, (I’m a “Star Trek” fan you know), to places that are on my list, the ones that beaders...
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Next week, I leave for a week and a half in the great northwest U.S. I’ll be spending long days in lectures and at readings, and I’ve discovered that beading is a great way to unwind after a long, tiring day of listening. Since I’ve toted beading projects...
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