Still Life with Shells 1640 by Balthasar van der Ast This month’s challenge painting is so evocative and reverberates…
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Perfect Pairings :: Karin G + Something To Do Beads + Scorched Earth + Sharpline Designs + Glass Bead Art
This is the motherlode of beady goodness! When I was perusing the entries for this month, I couldn’t click on this image fast enough. The colors are in those perfectly muted earthtones. The shapes evoke the shells of all…
So this book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Affiliate link) by Marie Kondo, is popping up everywhere and becoming quite a trend. I finally ordered it on Audible and listened while I worked on beads this weekend. I highly recommend…
Happy Monday all! Here’s the round-up of ocean-inspired beads for this week – and it’s a lampwork special this time around. Perhaps it’s the correlations between glass and water, but I kept coming across more and more stunning lampwork…
Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related question of our readers and hope you’ll leave comments! As an incentive, we offer a prize each…
First off, thank you kindly for the invitation to join such a wonderful group of bead & jewelry lovelies! You provide such great inspiration for me and I admire each one of you. I love to witness how you…
I’m so excited to share the new kids on the block. We have three new beadmakers that have joined the ABS team and you’ll be seeing their introductory posts last this month, but let’s give them a big ol’…
This necklace looks like it crawled right out of the sea! The organic shapes of the shards are meant to mimic sea urchins and are spaced with turquoise chips for a great pop of oceanic color. I could picture…
I’m getting in early this month with the Etsy picks. Just in case you haven’t seen this month’s challenge image – or if you need a remindered, here it is. One thing that really attracts me to this image…
Hello everyone! It’s July – how did that happen?! We’ve got a brand new challenge, a seaside still life, and so I thought ocean-inspired beads would be an apt theme for this month. Who doesn’t love the seaside? A…