SaraBeth's Belly Dancing Bead Blog

Along with the monthly Halcraft Pretty Palette challenges I've also decided to participate in Out On A Whim's first annual BEad Inspired design contest, and quite possibly in All About Beadweav...

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I've decided to spend this year beading along with the Halcraft Pretty Palette Challenge by exploring different ways of creating beaded wall hangings. I had intended to stay with the pink, lac...

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I decided to make something for the Halcraft's January Pretty Palette challenge just a few days before the reveal date and the project I chose, a 4 1/2" x 5 1/4" wall hanging, was a little too a...

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After nearly a year of doing hardly any bead work I decided to reignite my creativity and love of beading by participating in a few challenges through out the year. Up first are two delightfull...

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From top left to bottom right:  March, April, May  March Color of the Month:  Aqua: Fusion Beads chose "Aqua" to be the Pantone Spring 2015 color for March and this is one of my favorite S...

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Days 6 & 9:  A Hollywood inspired piece and a lovely long necklace: Mary Pickford is one of my favorite silent screen stars.  She co-founded a major motion picture studio, made a staggering nu...

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Day 4.  Favorite Swarovski crystal or effect: All Swarovski crystals all my favorites!  Bead mixes are lovely to look at, and I defintely squirrel them away in my stash, but I prefer order and...

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I was a regular contributor to Margie Deeb's Color Reports and I've really missed them, so I decided that this year I'll be beading along with Fusion Beads as they feature one of Pantone's Spri...

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March is National Craft Month and that means Fusion Beads is hosting their annual 30 Day Bead Challenge .  It's never too late to start!  For a copy of the PDF calender click here. Family, ...

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My January Bead Journal Project isn't quite finished yet;  I need to add more strands to the web and decide on a way to display this, but I decided to reveal it anyway. At the beginning of...

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For the Freeform Peyote Group Found Object Challenge I decided to do one of the things I do best...cover a rock with beads. I normally use the quick and easy method of covering a rock with a...

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Slowly, but surely I'm making progress with my 100 Days Challenge.  I decided to kill two birds with one stone, (pun intended) by using the beads I bought in a kit that I wanted for just the i...

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Reorganize, revitalize, reclaim, rethink, reconnect;  those are some of the things I'll be thinking about and doing over the next 100 days.  Fellow belly dancer Gina of RaksGina is hosti...

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I know.  I know.  Long time, no post.  But in my defense I have been beading, beading, beading away. Just a few days into Fusion Beads 30 day challenge my beading muse began bombarding me wi...

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To celebrate National Craft Month the folks over at Fusion Beads are hosting a 30 Day Bead Challenge , and to get things started the first challenge is to make a pair of earrings.  I was feel...

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YAY!  Today is the day of the "Freeform Peyote Choose Your Own Adventure Reveal!" The wooden eggs I found stashed away in my bead closet are 1 1/4" to 3 1/2" in size.  Seeing as how I was fac...

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I have a confession to make, but before I do I would like to say a big "Thank you!" to Karen Williams at Baublicious and Mandi Ainsworth at Bead Circle for creating the "Choose Your Own Adventu...

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A fellow belly dancer, Gina, recently issued an interesting 100 day challenge .  Why wait until the New Year to start on the list of goals and resolutions lurking around in the shadows of your m...

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Lucille Ball is one of my favorite actresses.  I've always admired her for being strong, outspoken, gracious, and just down right drop-dead gorgeous.  When the male dominated industry of Hollyw...

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Week 2 of The Artist's Way for Beaders (TAWFB) has been about recovering a sense of identity and one of the topics has been about identifying and dealing with "poisonous playmates" and "crazy m...

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Earlier this week Jennifer Chaslow VanBenschoten started a FaceBook group, "The Artist's Way For Beaders," based on Julie Cameron's book, "The Artist's Way."  It's a public group, all beaders a...

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The theme for week 6 of Fusion Bead's Weekly Challenge was pet inspired jewelry or jewelry made for a beloved pet to wear.  I love my pets too much to dress them up human like, so the only opti...

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Although there is a certain amount of grim satisfaction in it, deliberately creating ugly bead work, even if it is for a book, is just not much in the way of fun. Anyway...I took a break from t...

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Surprise!  I'm actually back to blogging.  Where have I been?  No where.  I've been here and beading like a crazy little bee.  But, what I've been working on are projects for Margie Deeb's l...

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As promised here's a picture of the vintage goodies that I recently received from A Grain of Sand's "Curiosities" bead hoarder club.   This first box contained mostly plastic, chain, and b...

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