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Beaded Beads New Work and Old Favorites

Anyone who knows me well knows that when I get obsessed with something crafty,  I sleep, eat and dream it until I get it out of my system.    I have gone through beaded bead obsessions before and am...

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Jeri and Olivia Play with Beads

My friend Olivia came to visit and I took her to see my friend Jeri  (AKA Beading Yoda)  and Jeri’s wonderful beading studio chock full of seed beads, trims, embellishments,  findings and scores of new...

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Do the Blog Hop

I’m doing something new.  I am participating in my first ever blog party.  A blog party lets bloggers  share their work with one another and discover blogs they might never see otherwise.  But someone...

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Bead Soup Enclosed!

  OK, I admit it. I’ve been a little bit frazzled lately. For one thing, my workshop is in chaos following the repair of a pipe in the cement floor. I’m moving old furniture out and new(er) furniture...

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Crochet Beads

Have you ever tried crocheting around beads?  It’s lots of fun and not difficult,  The beads below are HUGE,  an inch and a half in diameter.  I bought the wooden base beads from American Wood Supply....

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Jeri’s New Jewels

Not many words this week, just pictures of  new beaded baubles from Jeri Schatz.                       The beauty of these little elements is that you can make a bunch of them in your favorite palette...

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The Big (Blog Hop) Reveal

It’s time for the 8th Bead Soup Blog Party Reveal! Here is what I made from the beads my parter Marta Grabalowska sent me. Her blogs are http://galeriakota.blogspot.com/ and...

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Elizabethan Beads

Years ago, I took a beading class with a woman named Alois Powers called “Elizabethan Beads.”  Powers  had designed some very stunning self-supported beaded beads made up of seed beads and crystals and...

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Triangle Beaded Beads

I have been experimenting with cross weaving which is sometimes referred to as two needle right angle weave.  It definitely uses a different set of “head muscles” than single needle RAW, but it’s not...

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Peyote Triangle Patterns for Dummies

I start off with a confession. I am horrible at following patterns. I am not making this up. OK, I can follow sewing patterns because they are all flat on the table and you have a basic idea of what...

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