BEAD DREAMS 2013

My camera died on Thursday night so I took some quick photos of the beadwork exhibit on Friday with my camera on my phone, which I really haven't used.  So here are small photos of the some of beautiful pieces that I was able to admire. I apologize that I missed getting the names of some talented artists.

These are Bead Dreams finalists:

by Hiroko Suzuki

by Mieko Ogura

by Sherry Serafini and Marcia DeCoster

detail

Karine Saysana

Marsha Wiest-Hines

detail

by Andrea Grzabka

by Vanessa Walilko

by Zoya Chislova

by Joan Babcock

by Regina

by Betty Stephan

by Anneta Valious

by Svetlana Chebotayeva

by Jennie Merritt

by Diana Grygo

by Kinga Nichols



by Diane Hyde



by Laura McCabe


These are part of the polymer clay division:
 

by Anastasiya Belyaeva



by Lynn Ann Schwarzenberg


These were in the glass bead division:

by Karen Elmquist

by Barbara Caraway

detail

 

by Vladislav Ivanov & Kremena Ivanova

by Joan Miller



by Robert Jennik


Part of the Toho Challenge:

byMasako Takahashi

and Hhiroko Yokoi

by Svetlana Chebotayeva

These are part of 365 Days of Lip Service, an art work by Lisa Pavelka.  She made 366 pieces on the lids of a Carmex Lip Balm jar.
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365 Days of Lip Service

 

So that is the story of my adventures at Bead and Button 2013. I can't wait until next year.
 

BEAD AND BUTTON 2013: SHOPPING

I spent a lot of my limited shopping time staring at seed beads at my two favorite booths, Beyond Beadery and Out on a Whim while picking out beads for a new class.  I did manage to snag a few fun things.

First, the new tools.  I treated myself to a pair of Lindstrom chain-nose pliers because I loved the Lindstrom cutters and round-nose pliers that I bought last year.

 

 

     Next was the Crystal Katana tool invented by Kellie DeFries, the Crystal Ninja.  I tried using the little stick with beeswax to put chatons and beads into Crystal Clay but the beeswax kept falling off the stick.  So, no more of that--I now have the right tool.

 

 

 

Here are the shaped beads that I bought: Rizos, Super Duos, Rullas, CzechMates Petals, and CzechMates Bricks.

 

 

Then some seed beads for upcoming classes:

 

 

The colorful stuff also jumped into my basket: the new Luminous Delicas and some neon spikes.

 

 

Then I bought some beads just because.  The first on my list was a porcelain pendant from Golem Studio.     

 

 

I couldn't pass up the cute top made from vintage metal cans that I saw at the booth of the Glass Onion Bead Co. 

 

 

 

I was really happy to find Joan Miller and snag one of her smaller robot beads.

 

Thanks to Sharon Wagner's perseverance ( every time we ran into each other, I was desperately seeking food), I talked to the Horseman Ltd. people about their Crystaletts, 3mm crystal buttons.  I bought a pack of buttons to play with and can't wait until their stitch markers are available.

Crystaletts topaz buttons with stitch marker sitting on top of the package.



 

Linda Hartung, of Alacarte Clasps, was kind enough to spend some time showing me what you can do with WireLace and WireLux.  Since I have knit with wire for a store display, I am fascinated with the product.

Here is Linda demonstrating their products at the shopping preview on Thursday.

This is a necklace made with the WireLux and a flower of WireLace and Crystal Clay.  The WireLux can be shaped into a rickrack pattern with manipulation.

Another WireLux necklace with a knot tied into the middle surrounded by earrings and flowers made with WireLace.

I later ran across the nice ladies at WireKnitZ who also sell knitted copper wire in a number of sizes and colors.  I bought some of their heavier knit to play with.

Here is my combined knitted wire purchases. The heavier gauge WireKnitZ is at the top right and the rest of the supplies are the WireLace and WireLux.

That ends my shopping for 2013.  I might have bought more but I was just too tired to make decisions; thank goodness for internet ordering.  Tomorrow I will put up the few photos that I took of the Bead Dreams pieces.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BEAD AND BUTTON 2013: CLASSES

I had a great time at Bead and Button, even though my camera died and I was so rushed that I didn't get to see everyone I wanted to.  I took some wonderful classes.

First was Monday night's WireLace Floating Flower, a pin made with WireLace, Crystal Clay, crystals, and head pins.  WireLace is a ribbon woven with very fine wire of brass, copper, or aluminum bonded with an enamel coating.  I had been curious about the product, so I figured it would be a good idea to take a class from the innovator, Linda Hartung.  We had a fun time and walked out of class with a finished flower.

Here is my finished flower pin.





Here are some of the other flowers that Linda made as examples.

 

Bracelets made with WireLux, another of Linda and Tim's products.  More about this later.


On Tuesday, I took Soldering 1-2-3 with the talented and ever-patient Gwen Youngblood.  This class taught us to cut, stamp, texture, and solder metal as we made two pendants of copper and silver.  Thanks to Gwen, I conquered my fear of torches and walked out of class with two finished pendants.

My 2 pendants.

Unfortunately, I had so much fun in class that I forgot to take any photos but you can visit Gwen's website at Metal Art Lab to see more of her classes.


Wednesday brought the Prong-Set Enameled Earrings class with Kim St. Jean.

Here is Kim surrounded with some of the tools and supplies for class.

My favorite of Kim's many samples of her work.


Thanks to Gwen's solid instructions in using a torch, I was more comfortable with fire and finished 1 pair of earrings.

My earrings


Wednesday night was the ever-popular Meet The Teachers, where I spent a lot of time catching  up with friends and admiring a lot of lovely jewelry.  I couldn't resist taking a photo part of the line for admission.

The line extends around the corner.

Thursday was the Soutache and Bead Embroidery Cuff taught by Amee K Sweet-McNamara, otherwise known as Amee Runs With Scissors.

Here's Amee on the right.

One of Amee's more colorful pieces of soutache jewelry

We did a lot of learning but didn't actually get very far with our motifs.

Here is 1 of my motifs, which will get sewn to a wide cuff.


Friday was back to the 1970's (in spirit) as I spent the day in Joan Babcock's Introduction to Micro-Macrame.  Although I joke about back to the 1970's, Joan's work is definitely up-to-date and we had a lot of fun learning our knots.  My camera was broken by now but you can see some of Joan's gorgeous work at her website: Joan Babcock Designs.

The start of my bracelet. We spent most of our class time practicing knots but I will get back to this project.


So that was it for  the classes this year.  Tomorrow I will share my goodies from shopping.