I can spend hours looking at designer dress collections, and when I get an opportunity to design beadwork dress decor elements, I jump on it! The main task for this dress decor was to design beaded strap decorations. Relatively an (more…)
Protecting your beading thread is easy when you have suitable jewelry findings and you know how to use them!
If you like making beaded bracelets, you probably already found out that bracelets clasps tend to wear out after some time of using them. The thread is not always to blame!
Free-form peyote technique creative process demonstration. Tips and ideas for wrapping ceramic beads with beadwork.
How often did you go through some of your old beaded pieces and wonder: what was I thinking creating this design? What happens when you no longer excited about your idea of a beaded piece you’ve started awhile ago? Is (more…)
The most wonderful thing about FreeForm Peyote – there are no rules! Select any beads you like without questioning their size or measuring them. Mix up the colors and you are ready to go. This ring was created for Karen Williams (more…)
There are a million books written about beading. This article is for you if you feel lost as I was when I started to learn beading techniques. I can recommend many but today I will focus on 5 books that (more…)
As part of my continuous learning process I constantly try other people’s patterns. Not every pattern I try, runs smoothly till the end. Today I would like to share an idea I adopted from Elena Hellenca’s tutorial for a pendant (more…)
Maryhill Museum of Art is a Northwest gem! I have visited it in the past but every time my family or friends come to visit I treat them with this pleasant drive (from Vancouver, WA) to a wonderful collection of (more…)
It is easy to explore bead embroidery when you just focus on a simple project. I chose cameo imitations to make elegant pendants using different embroidery techniques. Exploration of Bead Embroidery Techniques Using Cameo The first of the two pendants (more…)