Author Archives: francie
Where did August go? I was only gone for 8 days, but it feels like the whole month got sucked up into some sort of time vortex. Bead camp was awesome as usual. It was even more fun since my mom was able to come. She joined us for the button class then veered off […]
Not phone books actually, but the new Lark Showcase 500 series book Beaded Jewelry arrived on my doorstep earlier this week. It’s an absolutely stunning book. ( 50 points to the person who guesses my phone book reference.)Ray Hemachandra did an excellent job of curating this collection of beaded things. He has great taste. I […]
Surprise! Two posts in one week. Just popping in to let you know that I have three classes coming up in the next few weeks. Thursday the 12th I am teaching my ever-popular Stegosaurus Beads. It’s a great project to learn peyote stitch. We make small strips of peyote stitch, roll them up in to […]
In my best Professor Farnsworth voice. I finally have a car! Woo HOo! It is nice to be fully mobile again. Now that that part of the stress is out of the way I can get on with the applying to teach at Bead and Button stress… I am working hard on samples and new […]
It has been a crazy few months here. April threw me into full on show mode prepping for the Stutz show. And just when I could breathe a sigh of relief that that was over, my car got totaled. Thankfully everyone in the car was fine, but it has been a major pain in the […]
Just a quick post to let you know that I am teaching two classes this Saturday the 14th. The morning class is my Ritzy Rivoli Earrings.These earrings are great fun and work up pretty quickly. This pattern would also make a great pendant for a necklace. It’s a good intermediate project. Class starts at 10:30. […]
While I was ordering supplies for my kits for the workshop, I decided to order myself a little treat. I purchased two tubes of the new Preciosa Twin Beads. I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with them, but I figured since I was having so much fun playing with the Tila […]
I thought you might enjoy a few behind the scenes peeks at the kit making that went on last week. These are the sparkly bits from the Big Bling Mandala kits. It was so much fun seeing these combos actually made up into earrings. I don’t think there was a dud in the bunch. Here […]
Just a few last notes on the bead challenge. I finally had a good day to take some last pictures. Here is a little experiment from my trip to Florida. My friend Kathie made some awesome little hops flower earrings using the long Magatamas. I haven’t had a chance to take the class from Kathie, […]
Just a quick post to let you know that I will be teaching this lovely necklace at Bead Angels this Thursday the 5th from 11:30 -2. I will also be teaching it Saturday the 14th from 10:30-1. Check out the Bead Angels website for a supply list.
