Artist: D. Young
Business name: Obvious Front
Location: living room, Rock Island, IL
Website:
Obvious Front etsy shop
How do you describe the delightful robots that you make?
This is 21st Century Folk Art, like a cornhusk doll only made from electronics. There’s some humor in the mix, some dada, Luddite sabatoge. Kids like them.
What is your creative process like?
The […]
Christine Gierer has written an excellent article on three simple materials that will allow you to add color to your jewelry this year. If one won’t work for you, surely one of the others will! Visit Rena Klingenberg’s excellent Home Jewelry Business Success Tips blog to read Christine’s article.
Earrings by Christine Gierer
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Technique Tuesday!
On a trip to Arizona, I found some small cut geodes in a gift shop and promptly bought ten, having no clear idea what I was planning to do with them. Looking at them later, I decided to make a freeform beaded setting, which would cover the less-attractive back and leave the cut and […]
Having just started publication in 2007, Beads and Beyond is off to a ripping good start! Yes, our friends in the UK now have a magazine to call their own, and it’s a really good one :-) I received a package full of sample magazines, DVDs, and more from the good folks […]
Theme: Your guiding concept
Suppose that you have an idea or a concept that won’t leave you alone…you just must design something with that theme in mind, but you can’t find the notion of theme on your list of design elements and principles? Never fear, theme is a wonderful potential pathway into designing. Many many of […]
I’ve got a new poll set up in the right-hand sidebar! It’s got a question about your summertime beading habits. I think you can add responses if mine don’t seem to cover your situation, but feel free to leave comments here as well :-)
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I am so proud of her!! She entered her wonderful mixed media jewelry piece in Rings & Things 2008 contest, Your Designs Rock, and her piece won first place in the Alternative Materials category. Yay, Cindy!!
More of Cindy’s work can be found on Paris Couture Antiques.
Alternative Materials Category
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Artist: Cindy Forrester (Deltona, FL)
First Place, […]
If you own a bead shop, or like to visit them, this announcement should definitely interest you!
Located at Beading Daily, the directory already lists more than 2000 bead shops, suppliers, distributors, wholesalers and societies. Visitors to the site can search for these businesses by keyword or location, or browse the directory by category. The […]
What’s Up Wednesday
Semiprecious Salvage by Stephanie Lee
This is a book for adventurers! With very little preliminary, other than a list of needed tools, the reader is launched right into the thick of creating. Stephanie Lee invites us to join her on an epic adventure, a journey that took place long ago and far away. […]
Technique Tuesday!
There are so many wonderful things that you can do with a basic spiral stitch. If you’ve never tried it before, start with the basic steps that I’ve illustrated below. After you have gotten the rhythm, let your imagination go wild!
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Repeat from Step 2
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