Bead Arts

About.com Jewelry Making
New Year’s Eve means it’s time to put your big bling pieces on, and Tammy has lots of ideas to make you super sparklie.

Art Bead Scene
The crew is on a short holiday break, but we hope you will come by the blog to celebrate with our special week’s worth of the Best of Art Bead Scene posts from this past year.

Jewelry & Beading
One of Cyndi’s designs was chosen for a new book on the Art of Jewelry ~ Wood. Come and see her necklace, called “Measure Twice, Cut Once”!

Snap out of it , Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean just had to repost these sweet necklaces that she made for the childrens’ teachers as holiday gfts! They are just too yummy looking snuggling up aganst the luxurious rose velvet pouches she packaged them in. Happy Holidays to the VIPs in our lives!

Katie’s Beading Blog
Katie’s getting ready for the next filming of Beads, Baubles and Jewels. This week, she shares a cool necklace idea using a chain bail and tassel.

Savvy Crafter
No clue what jewelry you’re wearing to the big New Year’s Eve bash? Hop on over to Candie’s blog for an easy and festive fix!

So, I’ve managed to end the year still on schedule! I spent the month of December thinking about how the word beaver makes me giggle in a very juvenile way, and realizing that I really didn’t want to do an actual portrait of a beaver on my beaded page for November’s Beaver Moon.

What to do, what to do? A friend had shown me how to do simple needle felting, and I ended up using that technique to create a log that had been “gnawed off” by a beaver. It was fun to try something completely new. I used an off-white pipe cleaner for the armature of the log, and letting the ends stick out does look somewhat like chewed off wood. Ok, that’s a stretch, but I’m happy with it!

You can find links to more of the Bead Journal Project’s participants on Robin Atkin’s blog.

You can also click on “Bead Journal Project” under “categories” in the right-hand sidebar (of my blog, that is!) to see the past five months’ beaded journal pages. Here’s a link for last month’s page.

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About.com Jewelry Making
Still in need of some last minute jewelry gifts? Earrings are the way to go, and Tammy has some super easy projects to help you out.

Art Bead Scene
Elaine wraps up the Art Bead Scene 12 days of Christmas with a joyous rendition of a classic holiday tune, updated with our favorite beading goodies! Come sing along!

Jewelry & Beading
It’s not too late to make a super-easy sparkly pin for Christmas!

Katie’s Beading Blog
Visit Katie’s blog this week for links to a fun podcast interview, last-minute bracelet idea and the final (for now) installment of Ornament Thursday.

PearlEsq.
Track Robin’s travels to the traffic-laden trickiness of NYC and the tasty trinkets she turned up at Tinsel Trading!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean shows a new necklace for her chain maille gallery for her book, Links: all the great beads are made by Cathy Lybarger!

The Impatient Blogger
It’s the final installment of Ornament Thursday and Margot pulls out all the stops with four fabulous ornament ideas! Check out what this week’s roster of talented crafters has in store for you!

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!

PearlEsq.
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!

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.

PearlEsq.
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!

Hunter’s Moon

Even more warm browns and golds! I spent the month of November reflecting on the month that had just passed and creating Hunter’s Moon. There isn’t really any hunting symbolism that really appealed to me to bead, so I decided upon the pawprints following a trail…or are they creating one?

You can find links to more of the Bead Journal Project’s participants on Robin Atkin’s blog.

You can also click on “Bead Journal Project” under “categories” in the right-hand sidebar (of my blog, that is!) to see the past four months’ beaded journal pages. Here’s a link to last month’s page.

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About.com Jewelry Making
Looking for a jewelry class or two to take in 2008? Tammy has some ideas for you, including classes in metalwork, wire, metal clay, and beads.

Art Bead Scene
Check out our links to two free projects currently up on Beading Daily that feature Art Bead Scene editors’ beads! Melanie’s Pixie Parchment project and an interview with Cindy paired with a project featuring her spiral beads are currently available for free download.

Bead Arts
Cyndi’s bead embroidered page for November of the Bead Journal Project is finished, and as usual, it’s for the prior month!

Jewelry & Beading
Inspired by the completion of another bead-embroidered necklace, Cyndi decided to update her advice on bead embroidery techniques.

Naughty Secretary Club
Notice the picture of Jen in the latest issues of Altered Couture and Adorn Magazines? This week on her blog you can win all the jewelry in the Duncan ad and also get the instructions to make everything yourself using Fabric and Liquid Fusion glue.

PearlEsq.
Robin shares a “crafty” Christmas idea-why shop when you can teach and share as a gift-it keeps on giving!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean makes some angel earrings with a definite Chanel style to their wings. Also, a call for a PMC book to be authored by our own Tammy Powley!

The Impatient Blogger
Katie Hacker and Candie Cooper have declared every Thursday until Christmas ‘Ornament Thursday! ‘ Margot whips up a sentimental tribute to her grandparents in this weeks offering. Join in the fun!

About.com Jewelry Making
Give a double wammy of beads this holiday. Tammy has discovered a group that has great beaded jewelry to give and get that also gives to needy young women.

Art Bead Scene
Only a few days left to enter the Art Bead Scene challenge with the Coffee Haus theme! Get your caffeine on and get moving on a coffee related design using art beads!

Bead Arts
Cyndi is ga-ga over the pictures and information she found recently on Kanzashi, Japanese hair ornaments.

Jewelry & Beading
Two of Cyndi’s pieces are in the lastest issue of Jewelry Crafts.

Naughty Secretary Club
Grab a left over turkey sandwich and tune into the DIY Network Holiday Special this weekend with oodles of different craft projects. One with Jennifer Perkins making a chunky charm bracelet and necklace using decoupage.

Pearlesq.
Check out Robin’s closeup photos of Distress Crackle Paint along with tips and techniques to get the best “crackin’” results!

Savvy Crafter
Last week Candie found herself in a maze of seed beads in Kathmandu. See pictures of her visit to the Indra Chowk bead market…

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
It’s not too early to start stashing away those hand-made teachers’ gifts for the Holidays! You will be glad you did later when the rush is on! Jean shows what she decided to make the teachers (shhh! It’s a secret!) this year!

Art Bead Scene
Pull up a Cup ‘o Joe and warm up with our little gallery of coffee related bead treats made by the editors of Art Bead Scene

Bead Arts
A maple leaf on top of a maple leaf! Cyndi has created a necklace that features both a full sized and a miniature leaf. Can you spot the big leaf?

Jewelry & Beading
Artist Wendy Van Camp has shared with us about her inspirations and creative process in making her beautiful wire and gem jewelry.

Katie’s Beading Blog
Katie’s been a busy blogger this week! Get links to instructions for a fun necklace & earring set, vote for your favorite thing to bead, and check out Katie’s new CafePress shop!

Naughty Secretary Club
Have you seen the new issue of Altered Couture Magazine? Look for two pieces of jewelry by Jen and a 3 page spread about her sister Hope Perkins and her hand painted dresses.

PearlEsq.
Robin just wants to show you her nieces’ new puppy Charlie, go “awwww!” and have a good smile.

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean shows a bracelet she made for the November Art bead Scene challenge: lots of fun–coffee is the focus!

The Impatient Blogger
Margot shares some thoughts about the transformative power of the creative force in this thought provoking post.

Art Bead Scene
Cindy tells us about how she has merged some of her favorite obsessions (beads, books, and blogging) in her new Bead Lit Blog

Bead Arts
Bead Arts brings you another artist profile, this time of Olivia Competente’s gorgeous mixed media jewelry.

Katie’s Beading Blog
Check out this idea for a fun, versatile necklace and bracelet set using gemstones and Swarovski crystals.

Naughty Secretary Club
In her quest for continuing education in the business world Jen attended a Women in Command breakfast where the key not speaker was jewelry designer Kendra Scott. Read the recap with oodles of tips on running a successful business.

PearlEsq.
Robin’s got more frames to show off from the recent Ranger U class and some tips and techniques on how to work with your stamps!

The Impatient Blogger
Did Margot finish spinning her daunting straw pile before her tropical getaway? Click here to find out and to read about the Swarovski Tucson Event this year!

Art Bead Scene
Stop by Art Bead Scene this week to see the winner of the October challenge and the theme and prizes for the November challenge. We are sure it will “wake up” your creativity!

Bead Arts
Never throw anything out! Not even Chinese fortunes…

Jewelry and Beading Blog
Is it a trick or a treat? If you are passing out these beaded Halloween cards discovered by Tammy over at the Jewelry and Beading Blog, more than likely your friends will think they are the perfect treat this year. Plus, no calories or cavities!

Katie’s Beading Blog
Are you selling the jewelry you make? Katie compiled a list of links to articles that are full of helpful tips and info. Check them out or just add yours to the list.

PearlEsq.
Robin’s added another Technique of the Week, showing some fun ideas with Adirondack Alcohol Inks, Embossing Powders and Color Wash, all products that work as wonderfully on paper as for mixed media jewelry designs!

Savvy Crafter
Not sure what to do with that handful of cloisonne beads? Head over to Candie’s blog for some inspiration!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean just keeps loving to make those crazy little spiral seed bead bracelets. This one has a funny name!

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Jen writes for several blogs, one of which is for the Stitch Fashion Show and Indie Craft Bazaar that she produces. Stitch is Nov 10th at the Austin Convention Center and Jen blogged a roundup of all the amazing jewelry designers you will find at the show!

The Impatient Blogger
Got a restless streak a mile wide? Enjoy Margot’s musings on how she’s turned her ‘creative adhd ‘into a career. Impatient? Well, yes!

Harvest Moon

At last! The warm browns and golds that I love so much! I spent the month of October reflecting on the month that had just passed and creating Harvest Moon. I think I’m going to have a very hard time with the moon for October, which I’ll start the first week or so of November. It will be the Hunter’s Moon. It’s not that I have anything against hunting, having grown up in a school district that took the first day of deer season off without any sense of irony. It’s just that there isn’t really any hunting symbolism that really appeals to me to bead. Oh well, hopefully I’ll think of something, or else I’ll just make it an abstract.

You can find links to more of the Bead Journal Project’s participants on Robin Atkin’s blog.

You can also click on “Bead Journal Project” under “categories” in the right-hand sidebar (of my blog, that is!) to see the past three months’ beaded journal pages.

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PearlEsq.
Robin talks about what it is to work with Tim Holtz in prepping for Ranger U and she provides his fun link for Grungeboard(tm).

Art Bead Scene
Virginia Miska shows a step by step, easy and inexpensive way to remove tarnish from your silver beads and components, with common materials found right in your kitchen!

Bead Arts
There are lots of great lampwork and hot glass forums out there! Can you think of any to add to Cyndi’s list?

Jewelry and Beading Blog
Tammy at the Jewelry and Beading Blog has spotted some adorable wire pumpkins from Wig Jig.

Katie’s Beading Blog
Beading Daily spotlighted Katie’s book, Hip to Bead, this week. Read her post for links to a fun Q&A and free project download and a sneak peek into Katie’s crafty organic farming lifestyle.

Naughty Secretary Club
Have you taken the Handmade Pledge? Jen chats about how her girl gang the Austin Craft Mafia joined forces with the likes of Etsy, The American Craft Council, Interweave Press, Design Sponge and more to bring you Buy Handmade!

PearlEsq.
Are you a Perfectionist? Robin’s got a quiz for you and some thoughts on not sweating the small stuff and to embrace imperfection in your art!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
A stunning Geisha polymer focal bead by Janet Farris was dressed up using lustrous coin pearls and tiny multihued spinels to express classic Japanese beauty. Take a look at Jean’s latest offering in Beadwork Magazine!

The Impatient Blogger
Are you tired of playing by the rules and itching to break free? Guess what, you can! Check out this inspired post by Margot Potter that gives you the kick in the pants you need to follow your bliss.

Help me out here…did I miss any good ones?

Lampwork Etc Forum

Warm Glass Forum

Glass Line’s Hot Glass Forum

International Society of Glass Beadmakers Forum

National Bead Society Forum

Wetcanvas Glass Art Forum

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Art Bead Scene
Several of the editors at Art Bead Scene have been collaborating on exciting challenges with other artists. Check out what happens when three sets of art beads artists are given to three different artists.

Bead Arts
Cyndi explores how to use wire crochet to give new life to some moonstone nuggets.

Jewelry and Beading
Even more fun than growing your pumpkin, you can make your own pumpkin beads with a little know-how from the Jewelry and Beading Blog.

Katie’s Beading Blog
Have you heard about the public television show Beads, Baubles & Jewels? Now you can watch Katie’s segments on your computer anytime.

Naughty Secretary Club
Look for a bracelet by Jen in a new series of Holiday Ads by Michaels. Can’t wait until then? Check out the Naughty Secretary Club blog to get a sneak peak at the Twinkle Charm Bracelet and how-to instructions.

Snap out of it Jean! There’s beading to be done!
Jean’s third shot at spiral seed beading is fun!, with its butterfly clasp and its colorful Swarovski bicones sparkling like crazy on a deep background of emerald and sapphire!

The Impatient Blogger
Sometimes we make wonderful things and sometimes we make a whole lot of crap. Fret not! Join Margot as she shares her crafty mishaps and encourages you to make glorious mistakes! (Warning: This post is rated P for Potty Mouth Syndrome!)