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I found myself uncharacteristically bah-humbuggy when the holidays started revving up this year. I think it all started when I went to the hardware store in October. "Christmas music. Really? Here? Among the plungers and scroll saws? Grr. Aren't there more important things in the world to focus...
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Jean Campbell
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Dec 20, 2012
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There are a lot of things I'm looking forward to in the New Year, but at the top of my list is the return of Downton Abbey (here in the U.S. it's on PBS). I'd almost be willing to bypass the rest of the holidays altogether for the first day of season 3 to be here (almost). I must admit I'm...
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Kate Wilson
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Nov 22, 2012
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I can still remember what inspired me to create my first original beaded jewelry design . I was flipping through a book about antique jewelry, and one of the photographs caught my attention. It was an antique seed pearl necklace made up of three components that were linked together with strands of faceted...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Aug 27, 2012
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Learning how to swim is like learning a new jewelry making skill. You dip your toes in the water, then your foot, then you wade in until you're knee-deep. By the time the water is up to your shoulders, you realize you might just be in over your head! And while my own wire jewelry making skills have...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Apr 29, 2012
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I've got a soft spot for brick stitch. It was the first beading stitch that I taught myself that I actually understood, and for a while, I made all of my amulet bags with brick stitch instead of peyote! Even after I learned how to love peyote stitch, I still found myself coming back to brick stitch...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Mar 20, 2012
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For National Craft Month, I thought I would participate in the Fusion Beads 30 Day National Craft Month Challenge. The Day 1 challenge was, of course, to make a pair of earrings! And I just happened to have a pair of these lovely 14mm Swarovski crystal stones that were just begging to be made into a...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Mar 2, 2012
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Today starts National Craft Month! I can't think of a better time to celebrate doing what we love best: beading and jewelry making! This morning, I opened my email to discover an invitation from Fusion Beads to participate in their 30 Day National Craft Month Challenge , and I decided to jump right...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Mar 1, 2012
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We all love free beading patterns, there's no doubt about that. Last week, I talked a little about where to find free beading patterns here on Beading Daily . This week, we'll start looking around at other great places on the Internet where you can find free beading patterns. And we all know...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Dec 9, 2011
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When I first started learning how to bead and was learning basic jewelry-making, I loved earring making. I didn't realize it at the time, but making earrings a great way to learn new beadweaving stitches and jewelry-making techniques. Handmade earring projects are (usually) small and not terribly...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Nov 3, 2011
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Leftover beads? What are those? Oh, that's right - those are the dozens of tiny plastic bags you have in your bead stash that contain just a few beads. For me, they are everywhere: at the bottom of every drawer, mixed in with my seed bead drawers and even in the pockets of my organizer totes. These...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Oct 4, 2011
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When I first started beading, all I made was amulet bags. This was back in 1999, and everywhere you looked beadweavers were creating beautiful, over-the-top beadwoven amulet bags. Sometimes I would make a pair of earrings to match a particular bag, but those were usually just a few beads strung on a...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Aug 26, 2011
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5 Reasons to Love Brick Stitch– I’ve said it many times before—I love playing with seed beads using brick stitch! I think brick stitch was the first seed bead pattern I mastered—before peyote, that’s right. It is just so . . . versatile! And because I’m big on fooling...
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Leslie Rogalski
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May 7, 2010
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Happy endings— Oh no! It’s (insert impending occasion) . . . and I still haven’t made a gift yet! That thought used to send panic through my veins, but not lately. I can whip up some earrings pretty instantly now, and I have a secret ingredient that makes even simple earrings look extra...
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Leslie Rogalski
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May 2, 2010
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7 Ideas for Displaying Earrings Several years ago, I made a pair of earrings that I wanted to submit to a magazine. Normally, I photographed all my jewelry flat on a piece of scrapbooking paper, but these elegant, multi-part dangles looked like a jumbled mess when I tried that. My first solution is embarrassing...
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Erin Carey
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Aug 14, 2009
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My husband and I will be married 20 years next month, so I was thinking about something to get him as a gift. We always go practical (he set the tone with the Listerine incident of 1985 ), so I was thinking of something more fun, like tickets to a musical or a weekend at a spa . . . Okay, okay, I guess...