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What did you do this summer? Technically, it’s still summer, but with all the back-to-school emphasis in stores, I keep thinking of the essay I would write if I were classroom bound. In addition to brief trips that took me to nearby, out-of-town destinationsMore
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Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on videos . Last week Associate Editor Anna Elizabeth Draeger, of the Ask Anna column, joined Assistant Editor Lesley Weiss and me to make a video that will go with next month’s special publication BrilliantMore
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Color gradation has been big on the runway for the past couple of seasons . This summer I learned from Patricia Kimle how to make a Skinner blend with polymer clay at the 2008 Bead&Button Show . From time to time I’ll see a striking example of colorMore
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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 crystalMore
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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 wasMore
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This week I’ve been learning to crochet with beads. As much as I love beading and knitting, I seem to be crochet impaired. There were so many things I had trouble figuring out. Where do I stick the needle? How do the beads sit in relation to each otherMore
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Working on Naomi Sakuma's beaded lantern has been quite a challenge. Working eight rows per hour is fast compared to how long it took me to complete the same amount when I first started working on it. I consider myself a speedy beader - I can whipMore
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If you’ve been to the Bead&Button Show before, you know that some of the biggest beading celebrities turn out to teach classes, sell jewelry, and…talk with Bead&Button staff! At last year’s Bead&Button Show, we interviewed a number of famousMore
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I'll never forget the energy I felt at my first Bead&Button Show as editor. I had been to the show several times, but 2007 was the best: I could now talk to people as a member of the magazine staff. On Friday, the show floor opened to the publicMore
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