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 […]
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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. […]
Making Polymer Clay Beads
by Carol Blackburn
Don’t hate me because I’m not a polymer clay person! Please!
If I decided tomorrow that I wanted to make polymer clay beads, this would be the book I’d choose to take me on that journey. I almost fell victim to polymer clay fever as I read through this […]
There are literally hundreds of books that you could buy on the art of working with seed beads, and most of them are good books, with something good to offer. And since I’m a book and magazine junkie, I own most of them. The ones that I don’t own, I’ve read, courtesy of the local […]
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Have you seen Artful Blogging magazine? If you haven’t, you’re in for a treat! I hadn’t really thought too much about this new journal until a sample copy appeared in my mailbox. Then, oh my gosh! I couldn’t get enough of looking at all the creative things that artists are doing with their […]
Junk to Jewelry by Brenda Schweder
I thought that this book was a lot of fun, but for those of us who’ve been messing around with mixed media and found objects for awhile, it’s probably one that I’d recommend looking at before you decide to buy. It’s a great book for two types of people: those […]
Color Report for Bead Artists by Margie Deeb
Margie has done it again! This time, the author of The Beaders Guide to Color has produced a guide for the upcoming seasons, based upon the Pantone color forecast. Margie has compiled the 10 big color stories and has expanded them into multiple color palettes for each, […]
This time, the publication is from the UK!! I’m so excited for our friends there, who often have to wait forever to get their issues of our magazines. So while we’re all happily talking away about what we’re going to make next from the newest Bead & Button, they are sitting there in frustration saying, […]
I have a permanent page on Jewelry & Beading that I add to from time to time. It lists the books that I consider to be the best of the best in many different beading and jewelry making categories. It’s called simply The Library! You can always find it by looking in the right-hand […]
Making Metal Beads
by Pauline Warg
This is an astounding book! Like all Lark Publications, it is filled with beautiful photographs, in this case close-ups of lovely fabricated metal beads and the steps to create them.
Warning: this is not a book on metal clay. Pauline’s book covers traditional metalsmithing techniques, so it’s not for everyone. But if […]
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