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‘Tis the season for bead shows and craft fairs and trunk shows and backyard crafty gatherings. Everyone needs gifts. Crafty types need to sell people those gifts. So here’s a trunk show being held in the Ventura County area…

Glasscapes by Mingo and Asho is one of the many exhibitors at Babe – Bay Area Bead Extravaganza. They make blown beads among other glass goodies but this is what they’re most known for. And on…

My passion is glass. I melt it and form it into cute beads…pretty beads…sometimes beads that blow my mind. I also fuse glass into objects…functional art. A sink…a lamp…plates and bowls. Then there’s mosaic. Bits of glass and tiles adhered…

I was directed today to You Tube by Bullseye glass via Facebook today. Bullseye had posted a link to a video, put together by Corning Museum of Glass, showing Rudi Gritch doing some cool fusing. You can see the glass…

My friend Jennifer found this great bead maker on etsy and thought I should write about her. When I saw her work I agreed. Stephanie Ann has a love for the beach and it shows in her work. Starfish figure prominently…

Are you a glass bead maker? Do you need a place to sell your beads? Have you seen justbeads.com? It’s the perfect place to sell your beads since that’s all they sell. Or do you need to buy beads? They…

As I was trolling around Facebook I came upon a cool glass beaded curtain and I felt I had to share it…it’s on the Art Bead Scene blog posted by Heather Powers. It’s a tutorial and besides glass beads they use…

Silver glass is all the rage these days in glass beadmaking.  From the picture above you might understand why.  The glass is very expensive due to its high silver content that gives the glass its color.  It also can be…

Lampworker Marcy Lamberson highlights the butterfly beads of Robert Simmons on her blog.  Robert is the Director of Bead Donations for Beads of Courage, an organization that provides arts in medicine to children and families coping with serious illness.

In the…

It’s easy to win a copy of this wonderful eTutorial by Kerri Fuhr.  Just surf on over the the Lori Greenberg Bead Blog, read the review and leave a comment.  Be sure to bookmark the site while you’re there because there…

If any of you read Watch Me Create, the team blog that I manage and write for, it is no surprise to you that I love hearing about artist’s creative processes.  Ranking right up there at the top of my…

This find speaks to me!  I absolutely love earthtone colors and this set of glass beads has a richness that you can’t deny.  Graciebeads is the artist and you will see more of her creations at her web site too.  Gorgeous browns,…

Emma Baird of the Little Bead Shop is spotlighted in the most recent issue of the UKs premier bead magazine, Bead.

Be sure to check out this great magazine as well as Emma’s glass beads and blog.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you know that cupcakes are the years hottest dessert trend.  Don’t have a sweet tooth?  Well, now you can wear them too.  Check out these great glass cupcake beads by Laura Sparling.

Laura was…

I am passionate about documenting my processes, color forumulas and just about every thing I make.  When I came across today’s link I immediately thought, how can I translate that to some of what I work with.  I’ve had visions…

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