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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 beforeMore
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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 editorsMore
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At Bead&Button headquarters, we have a joke among the staff that our friends and families aren’t sure what we do for a living. They don’t know what we mean when we say that we test projects and refine instructions, and they may be confused about whatMore
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We received a phone call from a reader the other day who discovered that she is allergic to nickel, as many people are, and that the nickel plating on her beading needles was the cause of the dry itchy patches that were developing on her skin. Being unwillingMore
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Every year when St. Patrick’s day rolls around, I look for a subtle way to work in the wearing of green. Typically, this means wearing an item of clothing that has green as a minor element in the pattern or print. Sometimes I’ll wear a non-Kelly shadeMore
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I prefer to think of them as opportunities or experimenting rather than mistakes. When designing a piece of jewelry, I have been known to make a good number of starts and stops before I settle on a final design. Often, I leave little swatches of theseMore
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In the jewelry world, the buzz words for 2009 are “mixed media.” This refers to a developing interest in combining glass, fiber, metal, wire, porcelain, wood, paper, and polymer clay materials in one jewelry project. Not only are the components made ofMore
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• If you’re still looking for holiday gifts, there is still time to shop our 50% off all downloadable projects sale . • What to do with extra beads? Put them on packages! Since I was snowed in this weekend, I took advantage of my time at home to do twoMore
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Ann Dee Allen, editor of Bead&Button magazine, recently asked the staff what method we use to follow instructions when we make something with which we’re unfamiliar, such as a bookshelf. Our answers ranged from “I read everything first before I beginMore
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Generally, it's so busy here that we often eat lunch on the fly and go directly from one meeting or photo shoot into the next. It's very rare for me to be able to read every promotional e-mail, since there are so many great products availableMore
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It's official — Bead&Button 's 15th anniversary issue hit the newsstands today! Subscribers' early responses to this issue have already been amazing. With "20 Tips for Inspired Wirework," holiday patterns, a loomwork Stitch WorkshopMore
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Last week I wrote about the intersection of art and science that beading inhabits . When this story originally caught my attention, I wrote about mathematician Gwen Fisher’s baseball bat tetrahedron . Recently, I’ve talked with friends of mine who areMore
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Now that fall is upon us and school has been back in session for a few weeks, I’ve noticed more stories about the role that art plays in education . The authors of a study on arts education stress the importance of preparing students for the 21st centuryMore
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I’ve been thinking a lot about crafting generations. Recently, I read an article about a woman who was a fourth-generation button collector. Can you imagine the sentimental value of buttons collected by your great grandmother? I myself am a quilter, asMore
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The Lux Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, unveils its monthlong exhibit on contemporary beadwork, Bedazzled: 2008 Lux Center for the Arts Bead Invitational, on August 1. The exhibit includes works by JoAnn Baumann, Wendy Ellsworth, Susan FraermanMore
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