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Sometimes, when I can't sleep at night, I try to relax by dreaming up new beaded jewelry design ideas. (I'm not the only one who does that, right?) A couple of weeks ago, as I was trying to fall asleep, I thought about what I was going to do with a hank of beautiful striped seed beads from York...
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Dec 14, 2012
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I've been doing a lot of wire jewelry making projects lately, thanks in no small part to my ever-improving wire jewelry making skills. I've discovered that just knowing how to make simple loops, wrapped loops, and jump rings can translate into a whole wire jewelry project! So after seeing some...
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Jul 23, 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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Apr 29, 2012
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The recent price increase for sterling silver really hit me the last time I put together an order for sterling silver clasps and findings. It made me nervous to think that I was going to eventually have to pass on that price increase to my customers, too. After fretting about it for a few minutes, I...
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Jennifer VanBenschoten
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Jun 26, 2011
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Kristal Wick is the editor of Beading Daily . Calling all fashion police! It should be mandatory for all jewelry-makers to change their jewelry with the season (of course white jewelry is perfectly acceptable after Labor Day). Add a few more designs to your jewelry closet while watching football with...
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Kristal Wick
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Sep 13, 2010
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What is the Tucson Bead Show? Tucson during the bead shows is impossible to describe. It is not “a bead show,” not even “bead shows.” It’s a universe of about 50 independently produced venues of beads, gems, jewelry, minerals, fossils, and imported goods of all kinds, all...
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Leslie Rogalski
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Feb 12, 2010
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Two Years of Beading Daily Beading Daily turned two on August 1st. When I started several months before our official launch date, there were 1,500 members. Now there are more than 100,000! It's amazing that despite this huge growth, Beading Daily still feels much like it did when it started—a...
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Aug 3, 2009
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Enter the New Semiprecious Beads Challenge When you're starting out, it's easiest to string one or two types of beads together. Combining three or more can be tricky. You'll need to juggle multiple colors and possibly different shapes and sizes. Because of the design skill involved, I thought...
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Michelle Mach
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Feb 20, 2009
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Inspired by YOU Some days (OK, most days) you amaze me! In the Reader Showcase area of the forums, I was blown away by Australian member Huan Pham who created the beautiful wireworked seahorse pictured here. Isn't it amazing? View the larger photo in the forums if you want to be impressed by his...
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Michelle Mach
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Jan 23, 2009
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What Makes a Piece of Jewelry a "Winter" Design? • Is it jewelry type? I hardly ever create bracelets for winter because I know they'll just be buried under miles of sweaters and jackets. • Is it color? I wear many of my necklaces year round, but there are a few like my Reveille...
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Michelle Mach
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Nov 7, 2008
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Holiday Beading Do you bead for the holidays? Which ones? Halloween? Christmas? How about Alphabet Day (October 9), National Chocolate Day (October 28), or Poppy Day (November 11)? I don't bead for Halloween (my easy pumpkin bead zipper pull from last year's newsletter was an exception), but...
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Michelle Mach
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Oct 3, 2008
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Win a $500 shopping spree! I'm excited to announce two new free jewelry newsletters! Jewelry Artist's Flashcard will cover jewelry-making techniques like cold joins, setting, soldering, polishing, or mixing metals, while Colored Stone's GemMail will focus on the gemstone industry. Each newsletter...
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Michelle Mach
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Sep 11, 2008
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Combining Techniques I love combining bits of beadweaving with small bits of stringing or wirework. Check out my Lazy-B Ranch (ladder stitch and stringing) or Love Birds Necklace (daisy chain and wirework) as examples. Lynn Davy's The Big Apple necklace on the cover of the August/September issue...
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Michelle Mach
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Jul 21, 2008
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Beaders and Bugs I've been searching for a delicate way to ask this, but I can't find one, so I'll just be blunt: What's up with beaders and bugs? Does everyone else who beads have the compulsion to make beaded insects? (Take a look at the " Bead a Bug " gallery from the June...
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Michelle Mach
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Jul 18, 2008
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Each month, one of the magazine editors will share a free project with Beading Daily. Today's guest editor is Denise Peck, editor in chief of Step by Step Wire Jewelry magazine and senior editor of Jewelry Artist . An editor by trade and a lifelong lover of jewelry, she was able to pursue both when...
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Michelle Mach
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May 29, 2008
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