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 Beady Shenanigans Beaded Quilt for the Bead Artists Against Breast Cancer Campaign
This amazing seed-beaded piece was created by the “Beady Shenanigans” group from Yahoo. The group organized to submit the piece for the Bead Artists against Breast Cancer Campaigns for 2005.
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 The Beaded Renaissance Ladies
Loretta Fasan is a Canadian artist, working mainly in oils. After completing her art studies at Concordia University, she chose to paint in a very traditional neo-classical style, deriving inspiration from masters of the Renaissance, as well as the Pre-Raphaelites, and other artists of the nineteenth century.
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 Chernobyl Treatment Ecological Education Camp
The children I worked with were wonderful. I was amazed by their acceptance of me, and delighted by the pleasure they took in the projects I had to offer. I found that, in the main, the children were undaunted by their physical problems and immersed themselves completely in the activities.
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 My Beaded Quilt
I started doing seed bead work, as most people do, with very small projects, ankle bracelets and hat bands. I really enjoyed the creative outlet and felt it was very interesting. My favorite part of the creative process was designing my own patterns.
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 The Making of a Beaded Mural
Paul thought of covering the whole van with beads. Claudine of course was in on the deal and suggested a mural. After throwing many different ideas back and forth, they finally decided on Rosseau's "The Dream." It was Rousseau's last painting and it represents the convergence of reality with magic.
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 Bead Forum of Delphi Does it Again with Dolls
The Delphi's Bead Art Forum of Delphi has done it again. Last year the group contributed a dozen beaded Christmas Ornaments for the 2001 Bead Artists Against Breast Cancer auction, sponsored by Bead & Button Magazine and BeadBabe.Com.
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 Elizabeth Glass Geltman
With the maiden name “glass” and the married name “Geltman,” it was probably inevitable that Elizabeth Glass Geltman (“Liz”) became a jewelry designer and glass bead artist. Liz has been an avid beader and jewelry maker for most of her life.
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 Margaret Carol
An original member of the Society of Glass Beadmakers, Margaret is a self-professed bead-a-holic. She says she has always loved beads; buying them, making them, handling them, saving them, stringing them, finding them, and collecting them.
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 Miachelle DePiano of Cosmopolitan Accessories
My career has been with the military and federal government for the past 17 years. When I lived in Maryland, I had several coworkers who made jewelry. I always envied their work, and wanted to make my own jewelry. In my younger years, I was an artist, but tried other creative outlets.
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 Olena Bugrimenko of Sparkling Fantasy
I am Olena Bugrimenko, a freelance designer. I specialize in bead crafting. About five years ago, beading was a nice hobby for me. My first piece was a necklace for my mom who lived far away and for whom I made that shimmering beaded chain with love.
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 Penny Craig
Hi. My name is Penny and I am a bead addict. I'm powerless over beads and my life has become unmanageable. I bead when I'm talking, watching TV and eating. Occasionally, I get confused and eat the beads. I know every bead store in the tri-state area and after-hours you can find me ordering beads.
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 Rafannette Dooley Cow Girl Bead Art
Texas still has plenty of wide open spaces. Cruising the roadsides in West Texas, native Texan Rafannette Dooley, aka Kricket, aka Cow Girl Bead Art, finds the porcupine quills she uses to decorate her brick stitch earrings and bead woven hat bands (many of which also incorporate horsehair).
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 Sharons Bingo Bag
It's not often that you will see my written words on this Website ... I generally only get to sweep the floors! Sharon Bateman found out that I was looking for a fun Christmas present for my mother (who is a 78 year old bingo addict). I received this "Bingo Bag" in the mail before Christmas.
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 Stephanie Gast & Jackie Nelson
Stephanie Gast and Jackie Nelson both work in the Jackson County, Oregon, libraries. When they met on the job, they quickly discovered that they share a love of crafts, knitting, crocheting, painting, and color. Together they took a class in knitting with beads and were immediately hooked.
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 Teresa Brasaemle of Ty Wolfe Designs
Having been in the Cross-Stitch and Plastic Canvas Designing field, for over 18 years, I discovered the art of beading, and soon was hooked beyond belief! Initially I learned the Brick Stitch and soon came the Peyote Stitch, Loom and Square Stitch along with the many other beading stitches being used today.
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 Sandra Haven of BeadKitsPlus.com
Hi! I live on the far northwestern tip of Washington state and work as a freelance fiction editor(www.bristolservicesintl.com). When my brain needs a break from words, I find that the vibrant colors and eye-catching shimmer of beads are just the trick to relax me.
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 Beading Our Way to Adventure: Bead Cruise 2006
Some days life hands you everything you dream of on a silver platter. That’s what planning Bead Cruise 2006 has felt like for my mother, Beverly Herman, and me. While recently lamenting being unable to attend a bead retreat, I jokingly suggested that we should put together a bead cruise.
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 Beth Helpern of Brilliance Jewelry
I’m a self-taught jewelry designer/artisan. My addiction to all things artsy began at the age of 5 when I started hand-sewing and embroidering clothes for my dolls. From there, I moved through beaded needlepoint, wire sculpture, and painting.
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 Fran Lizardi of Deepwood Art Beads and Jewelry
Growing up on the tropical island of Puerto Rico, bright color was a constant in my life. Even as a young child, I had a penchant for the loud and the bold. While most of my friends had dainty little girl bedrooms decorated with splashes of pink rosebuds against stark white backgrounds
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 Jai Johnson of Leo Jewelry
I believe I was born with mostly creative bones. My first "work of art" was featured on Romper Room when I was five, and I'll never forget the feeling of seeing my work on television and hearing the hostess say my name! That’s when the fires of creation began to burn in my soul.
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 Leanne Elliott Soden of Pieces of Class
I am a jewelry designer from the North Shore in Massachusetts and a stay-at-home mom of four children. I've been beading since I was about 10, starting with macramé, then moving on to beading clothes with seed beads. After that, I began designing special occasion jewelry, with an emphasis on weddings.
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 Paula Nurse of Starseed Beads and Gems
Born into a musical family, Paula Elsner grew up in Hawaii, singing in church and playing guitar. “My parents moved to Hawaii from California because they were bored. I loved the fact that my family was different, and we always laughed and played music together.”
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 Renee Kralic of ArKay Designs
I am a Montana native and live in Helena. My background in fashion design and merchandising led to my owning a women’s retail clothing store in a small Montana town for five years. There’s nothing like practical experience, and I learned a lot about sales and merchandising.n.
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 Carol Pulk, beadaholic - The Ultimate Beaded Mirror
It started when I got a new neighbor. The first thing she noticed, of course, was my jewelry-making supplies. Before I knew it, she’d come back with a box of old junk – I mean really junk beads and pins, many of them plastic.
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 Brea VanPutten
So many things inspire my work: nature, emotions, beauty, fashion, music, my children ... . I’ve always been surrounded by creativity. My mother is an amazing seamstress and quilter, and my father is a pottery artist. Music has always been part of my life.
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 Hati Meier
Hati Meier (age 16) of Fair Oaks, California, was the first to submit her "favorite" beaded piece for Bead Bugle Release 1.0 ... wonder how she heard about it before the first issue hit the streets?
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 Cindy Hulsey
I am Cindy Hulsey, and I have been addicted to seed beads since 1970. I’ve been teaching different beading techniques for the last ten years. In 1998, I learned beaded knitting! Since then I’ve been teaching it and producing beaded knit amulets, coin purses, and bags.
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 Christina Snead
Christina Snead began making jewelry about four years ago when she was attracted to beautiful bracelet worn by a friend at church one Sunday morning. This encounter with a beautiful design, influenced Christina to start making her own jewelry.
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 Charlene Sloane
It would be impossible for you to fully appreciate my work and passion without understanding a little about the person behind the creations. I was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, but have lived in the New York area since 1972.
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 Carter Seibels
When I was a young girl, I once asked my grandfather, “Poppa, don’t you wish everything was blue?” Now, at age 24, as an established jewelry-making entrepreneur, I am glad all wishes don’t come true. I can’t imagine what the world would be like without green, red, yellow, orange, purple, and magenta!
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 Caren Schwartz
Being ill with an equilibrium disorder and unable to move around for two months may not be any fun, but it did end up providing Caren Schwartz with a reason to get back into beading and jewelry-making.
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 Linda Stevens
Beads are the medium, voided grocery items the canvas” is the slogan of her company, Stevens Bead Art . But don’t expect to pop into her Willcox home and buy a last minute Christmas gift. There is a two-or three- month wait for one of her uniquely beautiful pieces.
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 Ann Winger
Winger, whose nick name comes from the fact that she and her husband of nearly 40 years used to ride Honda Goldwing motorcycles, started beading about 10 years ago when one of her three daughters began reading about Indian history and researching the family heritage.
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 Welcome to the World of ANGELAMPS and Julie Ann Smith
What is an ANGELAMP? They are delightfully petite lampwork beads blessed with love and the light from above in which I create here in my studio in Fort Worth, Texas.
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 Janis Lozano of JL Designs
JL Designs was founded and created in the summer of 1999 by Janis Lozano, an actress, fine artist, graphic designer, photographer and make-up artist. Janis originally came up with the idea of JL Designs, because as an actor, she thought it would be a fun work-at-home outlet.
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 Kathie Scrimgeour of Crystal Cave Design
Jewelry has always been one of Kathie Scrimgeour passions in life. In the days of her youth she wore no less than 3 necklaces, a ring for every finger, and 2 sets of earrings. Kathie was in heaven when she heard the rings clack against each other.
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 Laura Marlowe of Marlowe Designs
A native Californian, Laura grew up with artistic influence from her mother, who painted, did charcoal drawings, sculpted, built furniture, sewed and even did a bit of jewelry making. Absorbing all of this, Laura made art her career and later moved to Phoenix, Arizona where she now lives with her husband
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 Laura Stafford of Tucson Mountain Jewelry
Hi, my name is Laura Stafford and I live in sunny Tucson, Arizona. Each year Tucson is home to one of the biggest gem shows in the United States. For me this show is like Christmas all over again, I can hardly wait from one year to the next
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 Liza Lou
Among this year’s winners of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowships is Liza Lou, 33, an artist from Los Angeles who creates large works using glass beads, said the money will allow her to explore new avenues for her work.
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 Michael Schaw: Bead Store Radio Commercials
The Bead Scene primarily focus is about people that make either beads or jewelry, but it came to our attention that Michael Schaw also makes his living partially from beads, by creating advertising for bead stores.
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 Nealay Patel
My name is Nealay Patel and I am a studio jewelry artist. My story started when I when I was in the 9th grade. My class, Business Technology, required me to form a fictitious company and to market an actual product.
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 Pamela Robinson
Pamela Robinson originally started her life in crafts in cross-stitch. Her first dabbling in peyote came years ago with Carol Wilcox Wells Creative Beadweaving book. Then a bit over 3 years ago, she discovered Delica’s when reading Barbara Elbe’s book – Back To Beadin’.
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 Patricia Vener of Vener-Art.Com
If I had to describe my work in a single word, I’d say, "flowing." Working alone, I create juxtapositions of color and texture that flow through space in accord with my instinctive definition of harmony. I move through life, seeking harmony with the universe.
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 Sarajane Helm of PolyClay
An early appreciation for beads and dress-up regalia has become a lifelong fascination for Sarajane Helm . She trained in college as a costume designer for theatre, dance, and film work and uses all the skills she’s ever acquired in her work as an artist and author.
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 Sophie R. Van Tiggelen
In 2000, I moved from Europe to the beautiful Centennial state of Colorado. I was born and raised in Europe near Brussels – Belgium (French speaking part of Belgium). Brussels is now the Capitol of Europe and is situated at the crossroad of many cultures.
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 The Ballad of Speedo Bill* - *Sung to the tune of Beverly Hillbillies
I'm here to tell a story 'bout a man named Bill...
Who was hanging out on AOL turning into quite a pill.
Beadmom tried to call him on the phone to chat a bunch,
but she was always told that he was "out to lunch".
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 Susan Rochlin of Mermaid’s Jewelz
My life has always been filled with art. While young and still living at home, I took both oil and watercolor lessons, and at camp, I played with jewelry design while learning metal work. I learned to create beaded flowers, quilts, macramé jewelry (with beads), and the techniques of Chinese brush painting.
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 Tobi Mattes of Creative Jewelry
Tobi has been involved in the creative process in one form or another for most of her life. She received her formal art training in Chicago at the Art Institute, Northwestern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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 Teresa Kodatt of Pumpkin Glass Studio
Teresa told her mother when she was a little girl that she was going to be an artist when she grew up. True to her vision Teresa never swayed from that path and went on in later years to earn a degree in Fiber Art. Although she loves weaving and creating off loom pieces, she found the time to complete a piece from the point of inspiration to the finished work
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 Laura Dawson of Glass Cat Jewels
“For as long as I can remember I have been an artist. Even before I started kindergarten, I was drawing stories about animals and birds, and in school, I always excelled in anything to do with art,” says Laura Dawson of Glass Cat Jewels.
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 Holly L. Howe of Holly Lee Jewelry
Holly has been intrigued with geological formations and the resulting polished “rocks” for many, many years. She had invested in a few semi-precious beaded necklaces about 20 years ago. Over the years, Holly had to deal with a needed repair to a necklace and had it repaired at a local, fine jewelry store.
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 Dina One Heart Gilio
Dina has been an artist most of her life, although she didn’t think of herself as such until well into adulthood. Her work is a blend of traditional and contemporary American Indian leather and beadwork styles. It expresses the old and the new, and symbolizes the coming together of cultures
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 Beads of Light: A Success Story of the Hope Bracelet Project
The HOPE (Helping Organizations Promote Education) Bracelet Project is collecting beads and jewelry making supplies, and then teaching students at the Medhane-AlemSchool in Yetebon, Ethiopia to create limited edition, beautiful bracelets.
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 One Bead at a Time
Patti returned home last year, her half of the household in a rented moving truck, and Tasha, the Husky, riding beside her in her Jeep. She had to begin a new life for herself after 36 years of being a housewife and mother. Not one to sit back and let others do for her, she applied for jobs in any and all places.
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 Glass Lei’s of Maui
Lei’s are just an important part of life in Hawaii, not just for tourists to wear, but locals too. While on the island of Maui, at a trunk show hosted by one of the bead stores, we met a wonderful artist who came into the store to attend the show, and was wearing one of his handmade lei’s.
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 Heather Powers of Humble Beads
Colorful pieces of polymer clay sit on Heather Powers’ worktable, waiting to bloom into beads that are making their way all across the country. Mixed media bead artist, Heather Powers has been creating her collection of beads inspired by the colors and textures of nature for more than 10 years.
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 A Beaded Path of Love and Remembrance
In the year 2002, Marion E. Gold began a journey down a “beaded” path that was surprising, comforting and enlightening in ways she could never have imagined. Marion lost her dad in October 2000 to progressive supranuclear palsy after years of bravely fighting this illness.
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 Beads help children fight cancer
Beads of Courage® (www.beadsofcourage.net) is a wonderful program that was started at Phoenix Children’s Hospital by Jean M. Baruch, RN, BSN. It touches the lives of children undergoing treatment for cancer in a very personal and beady way.
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 Stranded's Journey to the Internet
I started to make beaded jewelry as a hobby and made pieces for myself and for friends. Pretty soon I was making so much I needed to find a way to sell it. I know this story is far from unique, but I'm hoping my story will help others succeed.
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 Designs by Yvette Jones
An artist and art educator by nature, training, and experience, Yvette Jones is entranced by beads. In her jewelry designs for both women and men, she combines sparkling glass rondelles and other shapes with seed beads and semi-precious stones.
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 My Story – Stephanie A White
My name is Stephanie White. Born in North Dakota, I was the only daughter in a military family. My parents divorced in 1977 and I grew up in Colorado with my mother, who moved around quite a bit when I was a child, so I never felt grounded.
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 Janine Geradeof Janine’s Floral Design
Jewelry and Flowers Come Alive at a Little Shop in New England. When I was little, I would pick wildflowers in my yard, press them, and dissect the petals to see how they worked. I was fascinated by their color, fragrance, and shape. I thought of them as free gifts from Mother Nature like shells on the beach.
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 Shirley L. Gordon of Gemstone Gifts
I knew I was an artist the first time I touched a crayon. What I didn’t know was how many ways there are to express that. As a teen I painted and drew. After I married and had three children, I expressed my artistry in sewing, quilting, textiles, and cooking.
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 Cassandra Graham
I have been one of the rare, lucky people to have made my way in life, solely as an artist. From the beginning, when I picked up my first crayon and began to draw instead of eating it, it was clear that I would be forever a daydreamer and, hopefully, a creator.
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 Linda Valentino
I’m originally from New York but now reside in sunny Seminole, Florida, where I have a studio; a passion for making beads is a part of my family. I dedicate my sewing to my grandmother Sarah because without her I would not know how to sew on a button.
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 Rowena Tank
Rowena Tank is a lampwork beadmaker, beadweaver, jewelry designer, and fiber artist. She makes her beads with recycled wine bottle glass and Italian glass and uses them in her handspun fiber art, beadwork, and jewelry.
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 Iris Mishly of ArcoIRIS
Polymer Clay Artist From Israel
From my earliest memories of myself I am doing something related to art: fashion design, graphic design, artistic makeup, balloon sculpturing. And during the last two years, I have been working with polymer clay.
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 Margie Van Winkle
I started wrapping stones because I was reading about the healing properties of stones and thought, “What the heck! If amazonite can help a shoulder ache, and my bulging disks, and help me avoid surgery, it's worth the effort.
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 Helen Anaya
Hello my name is Helen Anaya. As many beaders, I stumbled into the beading world by chance. I am a devoted wife and mother of 4. I found that when my children were a little older, I was in need of something more to do.
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 Patricia Crawford
As a child, my greatest joy was to play in my mother’s fragrant rosewood jewelry box, sometimes with permission, and I would sift through the Siamese silver, the gemstone rings, and the strands of Austrian crystal. I used to think that “AB” meant “absolutely beautiful.”
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 Cynthia Luhrs
Art has been my passion throughout life. I was classically trained in oils, creating figures and landscapes on canvas. That exploration led to searching for more ways to diversify my creative expression. This journey first evolved into collage and mixed media, then to abstracts, and finally jewelry!
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 Nicole Schlinger
My interest in beadwork began fifteen years ago as a freshman at Syracuse University. My first week of college, I became friends with a girl in my dorm who had an incredible collection of seed beads and made netted bracelets, necklaces, and the like.
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 Frieda Bates
During the early part of my life, beading was an on-again, off-again thing. I started beading when I was twelve years old, doing appliqué with seed beads and sequins. But my real beading beginning came at age 20 when I met a Navajo woman who taught me basic looming to make hat bands.
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 Stacy Drenckhahn
In the autumn of 2005 I watched a PMC artist doing a project demonstration on a HGTV and immediately thought it was an exciting medium with endless possibilities. I knew Metal Clay was something I could really fall in love with.
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 Beth Church
For as long as I can remember I have loved clothing, jewelry and accessories. As a child, I would make jewelry for my Barbie dolls. Dangling earrings composed of straight pins and beads adorned the rubber ears, changing with each outfit.
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 Kerri Fuhr
My passion for glass bead making started in September 2000 when I took my first class taught by my dear friend and mentor, Walt Pinder. That first experience watching how glass reacted in the flame and the thrill of making my first round (well, almost round) bead started my passion for beadmaking.
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 Bridgette L. Rallo
From her earliest memories, Bridgette L. Rallo has been in love with jewelry – not just any jewelry but handmade art jewelry. Her first encounters with this kind of jewelry came as a child in the 1950’s through her father’s friends.
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 Paula DeSimone
My jewelry making began years ago when I re-styled and re-cycled pieces that I purchased from department stores or even better, received as gifts. I always had an interest in creative design, art, acting and showbiz beginning as a child.
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 Patricia Tyser Carberry
I've been working with glass for over 25 years. Beginning in the early 70's with stained glass, I created custom, one-of-a-kind and limited edition windows for commercial and residential establishments.
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 Helene Dworski
Helene’s first birdhouse was a store bought birdhouse which she beaded using tiny seed beads and placing them one by one in a pattern using a toothpick (it sets in a wax resin which is pressed onto the model).
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 Rosemary Kurtz
I’m Rosemary Kurtz, and I have been a bead-flower artist since the late 1960’s. Several years ago, when the Swarovski Crystal company was first making their line of crystal beads, they commissioned me and my beading friends to design and create the first Swarovski crystal bead flowers.
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 Jeanne Wertman
Jeanne has always been interested in any kind of handwork: crocheting, knitting, tatting, and her latest love is beading and micromacramé. When Jeanne started to micromacramé, she remembered a little from the late 60s, and 70s from making pot hangers etc.
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 Terry Gozeski
Terry lives in western Massachusetts, and has been a needle worker and crafter for practically as long as she can remember. Over the years she has won forty-two ribbons at her local county fair.
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 Stephanie Trice
My name is Stephanie Trice and I live in Houston, Texas. I am married and my husband I have two lovely daughters. When I am not playing with beads, I work in a library in Houston. Many of you may know me as Ladymojo from my e-mail address.
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 BeadBugle.Com Announce a 12 Teaching Series on Chainmail
BeadBugle.Com is proud to introduce Marilyn Gardiner as the newest featured artist to write for the BeadBugle team! She will be writing a series of 12 beading articles, so if you aren’t a Premium Subscriber be sure to join today, and don’t miss a single one!
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 Joan Babcock
Her Primary Technique is “Cavandoli” or Tapestry Knotting
I grew up in Miami, Florida, raised by an artistic mom. I’ve always done some sort of arts & crafts, and in my teens I took up macramé. I taught myself the basic knots from a Ladies Home Journal article.
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 Jana Roberts Benzon
Beautiful Polymer Clay Jewelry and Beads
My 'life's calling' was fairly evident from early clues.....as a kindergartner, I vividly remember the thrill in my solar plexus as I glanced at the color combination my table mate had used in her crayon drawing.
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 Jo Wood
“My painting express my sense of place”
I am a bead and fiber artist. “Painting with beads” is how I describe my work. Beads are my “paint”. Needle and thread are my “brushes”. My paintings express my sense of place.
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 Eni Oken
Master Wire Artist
My first career calling was to design and create jewelry. I used to collect colorful pieces of wire found inside telephone cable and make bracelets and rings, and sell them at the beach of my home town in Brazil.
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