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My Bead&Button office window looks out over a grass-covered, empty lot that is almost the size of a city block. It could be called a field, if it weren’t surrounded by office buildings and houses. In spring and fall Canada geese gather there. And...
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Here’s a chance to show off your work in the magazine. Send your original finished jewelry piece using the 2008 Bead&Button Show bead to Bead&Button . We’ll photograph it and include it in the Your Work section in the December issue. Send your...
Filed under: Button, Bead&, Button Magazine, bead stitching, Button Show, Creativity, 2008 Bead&, lampwork, art glass beads, June 2008 Bead&, bead making, Your Work images
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Bead&Button Associate Editor Lynne Soto has been working with designer Linda Rettich on this beautiful collar for the August issue of the magazine. Linda's inspiration came from sea fan coral, and we are presenting two intriguing methods for stitching...
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In our VintageStyle Jewelry special issue, we included a fold-out section called “Recent eras in jewelry history.” In this article, Lynne Soto described the characteristics of the Victorian, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Edwardian, Art Deco, and Retro...
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OK, I’ll admit it — I’m a pack rat and my favorite things to save are old magazines. I have whole collections of craft, stitching, and home-decorating magazines that go back to the first issue. They’re all neatly boxed and labeled so I can find projects...
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This week I’ve been learning to crochet with beads. As much as I love beading and knitting, I seem to be crochet impaired. There were so many things I had trouble figuring out. Where do I stick the needle? How do the beads sit in relation to each other...
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