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07.31.2009 | Posted by Julia Gerlach

Highlights from The Gathering

The annual conference of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB) was held in Miami, Florida, last week. The conference, which supports the ISGB's mission of promoting and supporting the art of making glass beads, included a week of beadmaking... Read More

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07.28.2009 | Posted by Ann Dee Allen

Make the best new jewelry designs of the year!

Get ready for the new Bead&Button special issue Jewelry Designs with Art Glass Beads , featuring 20+ exclusive pieces of original jewelry made with glass beads and a wide variety of other materials. You can reserve your copy at BeadAndButton.com before... Read More

Tags: jewelry design, beading, Bead&Button, International Society of Glass Beadmakers, easy projects, wirework, metalwork, stringing, designing

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07.27.2009 | Posted by Ann Dee Allen

Online Jewelry Classes have something for everyone

NEW! We’ve just launched our exclusive Jewelry Classes on Demand series — video classes to help you learn how to make fabulous, wearable jewelry from our experts! These downloadable video classes show you how to use a variety of materials and techniques... Read More

Tags: Jewelry Classes on Demand

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07.23.2009 | Posted by Tea

Favorite projects from the August issue of Bead&Button

Right now we’re putting the finishing touches on our projects for the upcoming special issue Jewelry Designs with Art Glass Beads , and we’re getting caught up in the excitement of showing each other our individual takes on the jewelry designs. As much... Read More

Tags: August Bead&Button, art bead jewelry

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07.20.2009 | Posted by Stacy Hillmer

“The necklace” : An experiment in the power of adornment

Most jewelry books I see at BeadStyle and Bead&Button are of the how-to variety, nothing like my latest read, The necklace: Thirteen women and the experiment that transformed their lives . But how could I resist a title like that? This true story... Read More

Tags: books

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07.17.2009 | Posted by Stacy Hillmer

“Bunches of buttons” – Where do I find those buttons?

In honor of our August issue , which features a range of button-emblazoned projects, the editors of Bead&Button published more button projects on BeadAndButton.com – for free! If you haven’t checked it out yet, go to our Free Projects section. My... Read More

Tags: button projects, August 2009 Bead&Button

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07.16.2009 | Posted by Ann Dee Allen

Button Corner survey results are in!

If you took our recent Button Corner survey, thank you! We were pleased to learn that more than half of you visit the Button Corner at BeadAndButton.com between weekly and monthly and that more than half of you also read the articles and use the projects... Read More

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07.16.2009 | Posted by Ann Dee Allen

Learn how Maggie made her bead embroidery logo

If you loved the beadwork in Maggie Roschyk's Bead&Button logo pictured on our August welcome page, you'll want to read about how Maggie stitched it in Maggie's Musings ! Read More

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07.16.2009 | Posted by Ann Dee Allen

A bounty of beading and jewelry projects — with buttons

We've completed our August issue and are having a wonderful time seeing the variety of projects made with buttons in print. Wendy Witchner has designed a beautiful strung necklace with buttons and twisted wire for us all, and we also have an embroidered... Read More

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07.13.2009 | Posted by Stacy Hillmer

Bring a beadwork exhibit to your local museum!

Looking for a way to expose children to the significance of beadwork in both ancient and modern culture? Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum offers a traveling exhibit called Iroquois Beadwork: Through the Voices of Beads that should fit the bill nicely. Native... Read More

Tags: bead exhibit, Native American beadwork

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07.06.2009 | Posted by Stacy Hillmer

Finding buttons in the strangest places

Last weekend, my fiancé and I cleaned up my apartment’s patio balcony for the summer. While Jake sprayed for insects (and I cowered inside), he uttered a most unusual sentence: “There’s a button on your patio!” Excuse me? My first thought was that this... Read More

Tags: buttons, Button Corner

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07.01.2009 | Posted by Julia Gerlach

Got buttons?

We love buttons here at the magazine, as you can tell by looking at our August issue , which features four button projects. But we wanted to do more button projects, so we challenged our editors to design more jewelry using buttons. Five of our editors... Read More

Tags: beading, Bead&Button, buttons, button jewelry

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