You can whip up this clever snowflake very quickly, and even though it’s designed to be a pendant, it would also make a nice ornament for your tree, window, wreath, etc! Thanks to Bead Jewelry Making!
Artist: Kelly Alvarez Mace
Business Name: K. A. Mace Jewelry
Location: Southern California
Read all about Kelly’s take on creativity, designing, and the beauty of nature!
Artist Profile
About.com Jewelry Making
Tammy at About.com’s Jewelry Making site has a long list of ideas for jewelry makers to give and get this holiday season.
Art Bead Scene
As a thank you to our loyal readers, the editors of Art Bead Scene present 12 Days of Christmas: 12 free projects using art beads, running over the next two weeks. These projects are quick and easy gift ideas, perfect for the holidays!
Bead Arts
Cyndi is continuing the countdown to Christmas with a link to a new project every day! All with beads, of course.
Jewelry & Beading
Stunning jewelry and other artwork are featured in an interview with Penny Purdie, one of Cyndi’s favorite artists in the Swarovski Design Contest!
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Check out the travels of Robin at Tim Holtz’ Holiday Hideaway!
Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beadng to be done!
Jean displays a little parallel chain style chain maille and borosilicate bracelet for her chain maille gallery on her site: Margot Potter has the perfect name for it!
This is beautiful! Just think of all the ways you could dress up a basket using this method. Note that the trim is the pre-beaded variety, so it won’t take as long to make this as you might think!
You’ll find the list of materials and instructions for this gift idea at PattieWack.com
Artist: Carolina González
Business name: Supra Monster Studio
Location: Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Carolina is the master of so many different art forms! I think you will find her work enchanting…
Artist Profile
Kate Ferrant-Richbourg provides the directions for these clever cuff bracelets. You can make them as many tiers wide as you want, which makes this an extremely versatile gift idea. If you’ve never done wirework before, you can still probably master these bracelets. You might want to check my archives for online help with basic wirework before you start though.
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Do you have any new members of the family to make gifts for this year? Here’s a darling idea from Michaels:
Very simple, very fast…and really cute! Just what we like at this time of the year 
Maybe you could make beads with all those holiday catalogs that every company insists on sending you? 
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This card is so simple, but so cute! I’m sure you could make it a bit more elaborate if you wanted to, but I really like the simplicity of this design. Combine your card-making and your beading manias together…what could be better? Thanks to HobbyCraft for this idea!
About.com Jewelry Making
Simple but elegant, this green crystal necklace project is a perfect holiday treat.
Art Bead Scene
We here are Art Bead Scene are ready to wrap our holiday gifts and wrap up the year, so we chose All Wrapped Up as our monthly challenge theme for December. Enter the challenge with your best pieces that incorporate art beads wrapped up with unusual fibers, beadweaving, or knitting and crochet techniques.
Bead Arts
A new link to a clever holiday gift or decoration idea each and every week day from now until Christmas! As the month progresses, Bead Arts will be making the ideas faster and easier, so that as we come up against the Christmas eve deadline, you can still be squeezing in just one more great gift!
Jewelry & Beading
Champagne bubbles? No, not the drink, but a festive and elegant new necklace that you can make, just in time for holiday parties!
Naughty Secretary Club
Jen is the featured guest on Vickie Howell’s new podcast called Craft Rock Listen. Listen to the interview called Bringing Home the Crafty Bacon where Jen chats about tips for running your own business, getting editorial coverage, how to spend your advertising budget and more.
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Robin has the info on Ranger’s 2008 Ranger U Schedule, for teachers, store owners and designers that want to learn all that there is to learn about Ranger products!
Savvy Crafter
Candie’s beading merry and bright this holiday season! This week’s bling for your Christmas tree celebrates peace, love, and thrifting!
Snap out of it , Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean has named her lovely chain maille necklace Steel Magnolias, as sugested by fellow bead blogger babe Margot Potter. See it here, and see it as well in Jean’s special chain maille gallery she is making in honor of her book, Links!
This tree looks a bit like the old German feather trees that you see occasionally in antique shops! Don’t wait until the last minute to make this one, because it’s going to take a bit of effort and time to wire all the parts together. Is is worth it? I think so
Donna Dickt came up with this beautiful heirloom project. Thanks Donna!
I call this piece Champagne Bubbles for its fun, festive bounce and style. You can find my instructions to make it, and I think you’ll be thrilled to see how super-simple and fast it is. Mostly you just need to make sure that you’ve got enough small sized crimps on hand before you start
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Belle Armoire Jewelry, published by Stampington, is now a quarterly magazine. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is January 15, 2008. From the website: If you’d like to share your inspiration and detailed how-to instruction for creating beautiful jewelry with readers, we want to hear from you. Belle Armoire Jewelry covers a broad range of mediums, from art clay to polymer clay to found object to fiber to wire to beads and much, much more. Whether you are a creator of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches, pendants, rings or other jewelry, we welcome you to submit your artwork for consideration of publication.
Please read submission guidelines before sending your submissions to: Stampington & Company · C/O: Belle Armoire · 22992 Mill Creek, Suite B · Laguna Hills, CA 92653
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Come on a journey through a bead and jewelry wonderland, where no item is considered too strange to use in making something...especially if that item has a hole in it! All types of beads are welcomed and cherished here, and no techniques are off-limits. You'll be amazed and inspired by the beadwork that is being done today!
Bead Arts Author(s)
» Cyndi-Lavin
