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I was very excited to receive a preview of the new, updated version of Lois Sherr Dubin’s The History of Beads: From 30000 B.C. to the Present (Abrams, ISBN 978-0-8109-5174-7, abramsbooks.com). We reviewed the paperback edition when it came out back inMore
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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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Bead&Button has a new online resource for magazine subscribers — articles describing how our Spotlight jewelry in the magazine was designed! For the past few years, we have published Spotlight photographs of editors’ jewelry designs using art beadsMore
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For the last six months, I have been working with Diane Fitzgerald on her Bead&Button exclusive series about designing beadwork (read part 1 of her series here ). In her fourth installment of the series (coming in our August issue), Diane mentionsMore
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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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When I first started learning about beading, I approached it in much the same way I’ve approached many creative tasks: I picked up some supplies and started playing around to see what I could do with them. There are, of course, many other ways I’ve gatheredMore
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Because you can never learn too much about jewelry design, we’ve added another new resource for you! Maggie’s Musings is our latest offering on BeadAndButton.com, and it’s all about creating stitched and strung beaded jewelry. Best of all, it’s aboutMore
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The results are in! Thanks to everyone who voted in our 2009 Bead&Button Show Commemorative Bead necklace challenge. Because the votes were pretty evenly distributed, we decided to post the instructions for all five necklaces . Download your favoriteMore
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In addition to making the projects right from the pages of Bead&Button , many of our readers design and sell their own original jewelry. Topics in our online forum often range from sharing tips for attending a first craft show as a vendor to settingMore
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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, CynthiaMore
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We’ve opened a new Forum on BeadAndButton.com for participants in the joint ISGB-Bead&Button project Convergence: Contemporary Jewelry Design with Art-Glass Beads. It's not really meant to be an administrative space for questions about the processMore
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Heard about our 15th anniversary bead ? It's simply beautiful, made by Jeff Barber, and available in limited quantities as a commemorative piece. The bead is 1-1/4 x 1-1/4 inches (3.2mm x 3.2mm). Because you can order the bead now, you also mightMore
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This week marks my one-year anniversary at Bead&Button , and I thought I’d celebrate the occasion by sharing six projects that taught me something new about beading. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order. 1. “ A metalsmith’s matchMore
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Last week I wrote about being haunted by a particular necklace. I like to think that haunting is an important aspect of creativity. Allowing your mind to linger on a design — or even an element of a design — and letting it simmer on the back burner givesMore
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There’s an interesting question on our BeadAndButton.com forum right now about how to choose colors and what resources you can use. Do you follow the trends for the coming season, or do you simply go with colors you like? Either choice is valid, and thereMore
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