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Lavender right angle weave bead
Here’s what I hope will be a fun gift for a fellow beader: a right angle weave bead for her to embellish (or not). I left the thread tails so that additional thread passes won’t pull trimmed ends through. It’s 1″ in diameter – using a clear plastic bead makes it very lightweight, though.
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When an existing project isn’t grabbing you…
…grab another? I bought this stabilized Kingman turquoise cab this week, and I think I’ve found the beads I want to use with it.
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Beading For a Cure 2013 beads
The auctions are still going for the Beading For a Cure “blue kit,” the beads we worked with last year. The last set of auctions will be listed April 28. Go take a look! There’s some really spectacular beadwork this week. At about the same the auctions are going, participants receive the next kit of…
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Through no fault of my own…
Isn’t this a beautiful book cover? This is the (true) diary of a year in the life of Coco Irvine, written by the daughter of a lumber baron. The diary documents her life on fashionable Summit Avenue in St. Paul, MN during the Jazz Age, in 1926-1927. This house now serves as the Minnesota Governor’s…
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Report on beading every day in November
Feel free to skip this post – boring, wordy details, probably only interesting to me. So, here’s what I managed to do this month, with a concerted effort to bead every day: 20 minutes of beading on the denim right-angle weave bracelet. 2 hours on above, with taking the plunge and cutting and rebuilding a…