Jul 08, 2010 – Memphis, TN - The Intergalactic Bead & Jewelry Show will take place Saturday July 24th and Sunday July 25th, at the Agricenter International from 10am to 5pm. Unique vendors from across the country will display and sell their many styles of ancient and modern quality beads and jewelry. As well as precious and semi precious gemstones, an amazing variety of dazzling emeralds, rubies, gorgeous freshwater pearls, and glamorous seed and raku beads. Find your unique style with glass blown beads, swarovoski crystals, Czech glass, and Bali and Thai silver beads. Just starting out? No problem you can choose from tools and kits to start you new jewelry collection.

The Intergalactic Bead Show will include an amazing array of fascinating history and art. The fascination with beads is not a new found love, people have been admiring, wearing, and praying with beads for over forty thousand years. This bead show will feature over eighty tables representing the country’s finest bead vendors from coast to coat.

The Intergalactic Bead & Jewelry Show will be the premier place to harness the potential of antique and modern beads of every size, color, style, and material. Along with beads and bead-making supplies there will be numerous amounts of beautiful finished pieces to choose from, including beaded bracelets, pendants, necklaces, rings and earrings.

Here’s what some of the customers had to say about the Memphis show.

Carole Cornell:  “It is exciting to see so many different vendors and types of beads in one place!”
Stephanie, “I love the shows not only do you get to find fascinating beads and findings you have the opportunity to network with other beaders to share techniques.”
Carolyn Beverly – “The bead shows I have attended for the last 10 years or more have been great - good quality of beads, great people working shows, very friendly bead sellers.  Go every time in Memphis and sometimes get to go to Nashville - love it!!!”

All of the Intergalactic shows are open to the public, in indoor facilities and have both wholesale and retail pricing.  The Intergalactic shows have something for everyone.  So whether you’re a beginning beader or experienced jewelry designer you’ll find what your looking for at the Intergalactic Bead & Jewelry Shows.  For more information visit http://beadshows.com/index.jsp.

It’s been two summers and I’m still really, really into anything that even remotely resembles a friendship bracelet.

Now, the wicked talented Erica Domesek–she of our favorite DIY website, PS- I Made This–has created a rope necklace that I just can’t resist.

Domesek partnered with adorable boutique Tauk–in Montauk, obviously–to release a limited edition run of the macrame necklaces she’s been wearing all summer. And yes, she made them. Each is handwoven with string, bright ropes, and ultra suede.

I’m partial to the navy, black, and white, but let’s be real, they’re all cute. I’m heading out to Montauk in two weeks, which means my first stop will be Tauk. And at $80, it won’t drain me of spending money.

SOURCE  _   http://fashionista.com/2010/07/i-need-i-want-i-have-to-have-ps-i-made-this-summer-woven-necklace/

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Using two colors of DMC floss and ladybug and flower buttons you can create a nice looking friendship bracelet. Help the kids make this one for their friends. These are great for birthday parties or school activities.

Materials:

• DMC Floss:
  • 1 Skein of Lemon (#307)
  • 1 Skein of Christmas Red (#321)
• 1 Ladybug button
• 2 Daisy flower buttons
• Scissors
• A ruler
• Masking tape
• A piece of heavy thread or dental floss

Steps:

(Before beginning, see drawings of Overhand Knot, Vertical Double Half Hitch and Easy Bead Threading that are used on this project.)

1. Cut two 30" lengths of Lemon floss, and two 30" lengths of Red floss. Line up ends of all strands and tie an overhand knot 2" from end. Tape the loop to the table.
2. For the first row, use one strand of Lemon floss to tie three vertical double half hitches. Repeat with another Lemon strand and then the two Red strands. Repeat this pattern for 2-1⁄4".
3. Thread a flower button onto the second strand of floss.
4. Repeat Step 2 for 1".
5. Thread the ladybug button onto the second strand of floss.
6. Repeat Step 2 for 1".
7. Thread a flower button onto the second strand of floss.
8. Repeat Step 2 for 2-1⁄4".
9. To end, using all strands, tie an overhand knot. Neatly trim both ends of the bracelet leaving 2" on each end.

SOURCE  _   http://www.favecrafts.com/Bracelets/Ladybug-Friendship-Bracelet-from-DMC

A small collection of non-cremation jewelry sits on Collin's countertop at her Nashua home, Tuesday afternoon.Photo by Grant Morris

by George Pelletier

Vangie Collins always admired glass beads and jewelry.

And when she lost her beloved Schnauzer mix, Rudy, in 2001, she was asked by a fellow-animal-loving owner if she could incorporate the pet’s remains into a glass memorial bead.

“My answer was yes,” said Collins, from her south Nashua home. “I did some investigating and some research online, and I decided to experiment. And it just so happened that I had a small amount of remains from when my dog Rudy passed away in 2001. So the first cremation bead that I made was my own. It was a very moving experience for me.”

Collins said that it was unlike anything that she had ever done.

“It was something so special, so it went from there and I started showing some of my Rudy beads at shows, and one thing led to another and I’m now making my own cremation beads.”.....

Read more at  -   http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/business/775775-192/nashua-artist-morphs-memories-with-glass.html

Step 2:Cut a 3-in. (7.6 cm) piece of wire. Make a plain loop on one end (Basics). Place your roundnose pliers 1 in. (2.5 cm) from the loop, and pull the wire around the jaw to make a loop.

Step 3:Make another loop Ÿ in. (1.9 cm) from the previous loop. At the end of the wire, make a loop. Bend the wire into the desired shape.

Step 4:Attach a bead unit to each loop, completing the wraps as you go.

Step 5:Open the loop of an earring wire . Attach the dangle and close the loop. Make a second earring in the mirror image of the first.

Supplies: 6    6-9mm Beads

6 in. (15 cm) 20-gauge half-hard wire

6 1 1/2-in. (3.8 cm) decorative head pins

pair of earring wires

chainnose and roundnose pliers

diagonal wire cutters

SOURCE   _   Bead Style Magazine

"Dr Pepper" is an example of the glass beads made by Cathy Kaye

by Gina Caceci

Falls Church Arts member, Cathy Kaye, will discuss the art of lampwork beadmaking at the Artists Roundtable meeting on Thursday, June 24, at 7 pm at ArtSpace Falls Church, 410 S. Maple Avenue.  The talk is free and open to everyone.

Cathy has been a glass beadmaker (also known as a lampworker) since 1996. After starting out stringing beads and making jewelry, Cathy changed her focus when, “at a bead show I saw a demonstration of lampworking and that was it . . . beads and FIRE, what could be better!”

Cathy’s current work centers on creating groups of beads to work in specific ”signature pieces” of jewelry. She also creates items like cheese knives and wine stoppers that can be used to bring beads to every aspect of daily life. “An unsuspected bit of whimsy. . . that’s what I think beadmaking is all about!”

Cathy has been featured in the coffee table book 1,000 Glass Beads and has had beads on display in the National Bead Museum, which was dismantled and moved to Arizona when the National’s stadium was built. Her work has also been featured in local stores and in many trunk shows.

For more information, see the FCA website at www.fallschurcharts.org

SOURCE  _  http://fallschurchtimes.com/22722/glass-beadmaking-show-tell-thursday-624/

You will be the talk of the town with this fashionable design. Use Jadeite and Chinese character bone beads to make this hip necklace.

Men, you might just want to brace yourselves. Or as the Financial Times has it, you probably already have. Yes lads, according to that bastion of all things buttoned up and Tag wearing, the latest accessories trend to hit the mannery market: Bracelets–in all their beaded, bangled and charmed glory. “Not to be confused with the charity wristband fad started by Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong campaign in 2004,” the paper reports–pointing to a surge in popularity among well-togged hommes, “these accessories are instead an update of the backpacker souvenirs and friendship bracelets of adolescence.”

And by update, they mean a more expensive version designed to represent an man’s inner irreverence as tokens of the life that happens outside of one’s Gucci suit and tie. “I used to be a sailor, and each year my mother would give me a red bracelet for luck......

Read more at  -  http://www.styleite.com/retail/mens-bracelets-trend/

All elements are finished with padded backs for a comfortable fit; flexible construction contours the design closely to your body. Piece is supplied in a sumptuous faux-lizard skin presentation box with silky fabric lining and Bea Valdes brass nameplate.

SOURCE _  http://www.couturelab.com/products/Iris_Necklace-5584-c253.html?utm_source=estyle&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bea