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Help us plan the February 2011 issue of Bead&Button magazine by voting on one of two potential covers. Pick your favorite cover and tell us what you like about it.
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From all of us at Bead&Button , we wish you a fun and safe Halloween weekend. Once you've retired your costume and sifted the best from your candy bowls, check back next week to see all the cool stuff we're putting online for our December...
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One of the most frequent questions we get at Bead&Button is, "What colors did you use in that project?" Our designers come up with beautiful palettes that many beaders want to recreate. In fact, the question became so persistent that we...
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In her latest Maggie's Musings blog post, designer Maggie Roschyk experiments with bowtie-shaped or "farfalle" beads . I've also heard these beads referred to as "barbells." Typically, I've seen them strung rather than...
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One of our past blogs about copyright as it pertains to jewelry design has recently gotten some great comments and questions! Check out The dos and don'ts of jewelry copyright . For even more background on this subject, read my blog Copyright refresher...
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This week, I finished sewing a set of Christmas stockings. I took pictures of my work in progress, then posted them on Facebook for my friends to see, only to have a few people hint that it was too early to be working on holiday projects. I was perplexed...
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Like many people do this time of year, I'm taking a weekend trip to view the fall colors. I planned my trip using a website that gave a full color report and recommendations for scenic drives within 200 miles of where I live. Since I'm going to...
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New to BeadAndButton.com are some helpful videos to get you started using netting techniques. Our Online Basics has an overview of the stitch and we've included a new netting section under our Videos tab with three videos about horizontal and vertical...
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The Bead Museum, in Glendale, Arizona, recently opened a new exhibit called "Family Jewels." The exhibit features costume jewelry from two very different centuries. Starting with the Victorian era, the exhibit showcases the black mourning jewelry...
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For five years, Jena M. Tuntas has been coordinating an online "Pink Ribbon Turtles" fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society in recognition of October as *** Cancer Awareness Month. Jena creates beadwork for the project and sells tickets...
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Here at Bead&Button , we talk a lot about "projects." A project to us consists of step-by-step written instructions with photos and/or illustrations that tell you how to make a piece of jewelry. There is a specific type of project that we...
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