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11 Ways to Wear a Rope Necklace I have a sick kid at home today. She’s barking like a seal, but she doesn’t have a fever so she’s got just enough energy to knock on my office door every half hour. Not too conducive to the technical editing I’m doing this week. So I put her to...
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Year in Review Any way you count it, 2008 was a terrific year for Beading Daily! We welcomed Jean Campbell as contributing editor every Wednesday. We also welcomed our magazine editors (Marlene Blessing, Danielle Fox, Denise Peck, Leslie Rogalski, Sara Graham, Melinda Barta) and their thoughts on topics...
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A Fool for Tools My friend Jan recently dragged me to a knitting class. Of course, I knew that we'd need to buy yarn and needles (I do work for Interweave , after all!), but I was suprised to learn that we needed more than two needles, plus a stitch holder and darning needle. (And a crochet hook...
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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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If beads are so small, how could I be running out of storage space? For the last year or so, I've been buying random containers for beads and creating a bead tower in my basement. Sounds cool, but it's actually a little scary! When I was working on submissions for Stringing a few weeks ago, I...
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Congraulations Power of Beading Contest Winners! We raised $1,143 for two cancer charities, the American Institute for Cancer Research and The Wellness Community, by selling the instructions for the Awareness Ribbon Pins created by designer Kerrie Slade. Thanks to everyone who helped make our first fundraiser...
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How to Make Your Jewelry Look Exotic by Leslie Rogalski Global, multicultural, tribal, ethnic. These are words we use to describe things that are exotic to us and not of our national heritage, place of origin, or even time period in which we live. Most of us are very inspired by jewelry that looks exotic...
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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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Tips for Designing with Color Marlene Blessing, editor in chief of Beadwork Color is such a key element of good design. Yet each of us wrestles now and then with being in a color rut—"I only buy purple beads"—or wondering what shade of blue brings out the best in a new multicolored...
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Oh Happy Day! Beading Daily officially launched last year on August 1. Has it really been a year? Thanks to all of you who made my first year as an editor unforgettable--in a good way! Free Project Friday Gone Wild! Every Friday I share a free project on Beading Daily . Today, in honor of Beading Daily's...
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Warning: This blog post may lead to an incurable urge to shop. What Kind of Bead Shopper are You ? More than 2,000 beaders chimed in when I asked "What type of bead shopper are you?" I was delighted that almost 80% buy beads without knowing exactly how they'll use them. Me too! Now that...
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Beading and saving money are two topics near and dear to my heart. My Celestial Sparkle necklace was inspired when I could only afford a single strand of borosilicate beads. I wanted to showcase them in a necklace, but everyone who saw the tiny strand said I should just give up and make a bracelet. Luckily...
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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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Inside My Inbox One of my favorite parts of this job is reading my email. I love your enthusiasm, your willingness to try new things, your ideas, your creativity. Here's a recent sample from my inbox: Amy wants to make jewelry with found objects. Kathleen is interested in bead design programs. Dorothy...
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"Thread is cheaper than frustration." That was some recent advice I received from Bead Expo Philadelphia instructor Liz Smith. I laughed when I read her email because it reminded me of when I started to learn beadweaving. Coming from the world of expensive beading wire, I was afraid of wasting...
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