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My sister and I went to the Bead Market over the weekend. I actually won a beautiful lampwork bead in the hourly drawing and my sister won a set of pliers. We had a great time and bought lots of beads!

My mom and I were in an antique store a while back and she kept pointing out beaded purses. Talk about a lot of work! I have yet to buy one though. They are pretty pricey. I think it would be something you could put in a frame and hang and maybe it would last longer.

I've always wanted to make a crocheted bead bag but it seems like so much work! I'd like the crocheting but not the stringing of the beads before hand. They are beautiful tho.

I adore bid artwork. Congrats to those brilliant hands. Right now, I bidding a charmed bracelet as a gift to my best friend, Amy.

I have always admired beadwork, and played around with making some simple necklaces in the past. Finally I got up the nerve to try something a little more ambitious, got a book out of the library, ("Getting started with seed beads" by Dustin Wedekind) and spent this afternoon covering a little wooden box with beads. I am SO happy with the results! As soon as my neck stops aching I will try something else. What fun!

Hi, I'm Beth from Florida. Looking forward to reading what everyone is doing in beading.

Does anyone have some favorite beading sites? Do you belong to a bead society?

Hello Joan,

I love the Native American and Southwest look too. I have designed and published many pieces. I think my favorite is the holidays.

Bead happy and bead often,
Marie
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Claybird here again.
I'm now on my 4th beaded box, they are so much fun and so beautiful! I found out one thing, though...the book told me to cover the box with double sided sticky craft paper and the beads would stick just fine. They did, but I gave my first box to my DD in Key West while I was visiting her, and after a few days of 80 degrees the sticky softened and the beads began to sag, so I had to spray the box with multiple layers of varnish to get them to stick again. After that mishap I have been using a transparent glue that sets up fast and stays put.

As long as I'm just using one color, or mixed colors are okay, no pattern necessary in the bead anyway, I just buy beads on a hank, then pull strings free from the hank and slip off a couple beads then tie the end of the string to my perle cotton or crochet thread, and then slide the beads off the hank down the thread. I also use a beadspinner sometimes, but I like the hanks a lot better.