Earring Design Challenge Sneak Peek #2 Michelle of Firefly Design Studio filled you in the other day that we are having a little design challenge. I have the same components that she has in the photo below, Michelle’s earthenware…
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Perfect Pairings :: La Touchables + SomethingToDoBeads + BalelaCermaics + GlassbyLeese + TwoSistersDesignss + GlassBeadArt + LAccentNou
Tiger in the Grass Cairn Dawn of LaTouchables creates a striking pendant blending lampwork glass, ceramic, stoneware and porcelain. Here is what I see…the vertical launch of the mortar rising above the clouds and bursting like a giant flower…
This year at the Bead and Button Show, I was surrounded by some of my favorite bead artists. One is fellow contributor and friend Anne from Gardanne. Anne makes some of the most yummy enameled jewelry components I have…
Well, there isn’t much in the way of color inspiration this month in this print from Utagawa Hiroshige. It’s pretty much monochromatic from black to blue with touches of brick red and muted rose. But who doesn’t love a good…
Hello! Well July is just zooming by, isn’t it? And speaking of things zooming by, today’s very late Monday Muse is focused on bees. There seems to a bee for every type of bonnet and I found quite a…
Our Wonderful sponsors for the June Challenge. We will have 2 Lucky Winners this Month! BayMoon Design Kathy Lindemer of BayMoon Design creates wonderful Jewelry Components using polymer clay and also with brass. Kathy also creates one of a kind…
“Fireworks at Ryogoku (Ryogoku Hanabi)” No. 98 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 8th month of 1858. By Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) Woodblock print, Sheet: 14 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (36.2 x 23.5 cm) About the Art This…
Congratulations to the June Monthly Challenge winners! 1 winners was chosen randomly from all the challenge entrants. 1 winner was chosen randomly from the InLinkz blog entries. Winner of a month of advertising on ABS from the Monthly Challenge Bead category. ::: Our First lucky winner is Howling Dog Jewelry/Cindy…
For the month of June we were guided by this beautiful art nouveau woman reading in a garden resplendent with rosebuds from a literary magazine cover. The tangles of yellow roses set against the navy blue field and the…
This time change is a good thing for exhibitors, teachers, and customers. For those of you not familiar with the Bead and Button Show, the show typically runs for 11 days, this year the show ran from June 3-13.…