The Bead Dreamer’s blog is moving to a new home. It will still be a
WordPress blog, I’m just moving it to my own domain. When I started
the blog, I was focused on learning how to use the soft...
A while back, I wrote about these gorgeous CZ drops and a necklace I
made using four of them. Well, I started out with six CZ teardrops
and had two left – one red and the other amber. I did...
There are so many desperate needs in the world today and like most
people, I want to help. The magnitude of some of the problems is
almost beyond comprehension. It is easy to become overwhelm...
I love the simple sweetness of this bracelet. There are three red
white heart Venetian trail beads at the center. “White heart”
beads are ones where a color – red in this case – is la...
Remember them? Oh how I would love it when I would manage to get
one. I’d put it on and wear it intact as long as I could. But
eventually the candy was too much to resist and so I’d pul...
As an artisan, it’s important to me to continue to grow and develop
my skills. And so I work at it and play at it. When I returned
from Penland School of Craft this past summer, I knew I wa...
I’ve been of two minds here lately – on one hand I’ve been
making larger, chunkier ethnic eclectic pieces and I am so in love
with them. On the other, I’m equally enamored with a series o...
Two of my friends and I have embarked on a collaboration project and I
am very excited about it. First, because I’ve wanted to
collaborate with other artists and have tried at times, but my
a...
Shiny new stuff and things from the past, the sweet simplicity, the
deep complexity of walking through life with another person… These
are some of the concepts I tried to capture in this neckla...
This evening I attended a concert in which my boyfriend played with
his group. And wow, did they do an awesome job. The music was just
beautiful, it was well attended, and I enjoyed just seei...
