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Congratulations are in order for members Jeri Warhaftig and Ronnie Lambrou. Their collaborative work, “Santorini Eruption” is a finalist in the International Society of Glass Beadmaker’s and Bead & Button’s joint project, “Convergence.”
Even more exciting, the project, with instructions, will appear in Bead & Button’s new special issue, “Jewelry Designs with Art Glass Beads.”
The necklace, shown below, was designed and made by Ronnie, with lampworked glass bead made by Jeri.
This just in from the Bead Society of Greater New York:
SAVE THE DATE – MARK YOUR CALENDARS
AND SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!
An invitation from the Bead Society of Greater New York
WORLD OF BEADS VIII:
A 20 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE
FRIDAY – SUNDAY
JUNE 19 – 21, 2009
Friday: 12noon – 8pm; Saturday: 10am – 6pm; and Sunday: 10am – 4pm
I am writing on behalf of the Bead Society of Greater New York to invite you and your members to join us at our upcoming World of Beads VIII in New York City (Friday – Sunday, June 19-21, 2009) at the Fashion Institute of Technology – John E. Reeves Great Hall, located at West 28th St. (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC.
This three-day juried exhibit is being presented by our Society in honor of our 20th Anniversary! We will feature the unique beadwork of our incredibly talented members spanning the 20 years of our organization’s existence. On display will be over 200 pieces from our previous World of Beads exhibits held at the American Craft Museum from 1992 to 2004 – ranging from beaded jewelry to beaded objects d’art, as well as over 55 newly submitted works. FREE Mini-workshops and beadwork demonstrations will be presented throughout the event. Other activities include vendors, raffles and a children’s beading table.
The Bead Society of Greater New York is delighted to offer a $1 discount on the $5 admission fee to your members upon presentation of a current Membership Card or the attached flier.
Attached is the Event flier which may be distributed to your membership and/or posted on your website. For further information, please visit our website, http://www.nybead.org
We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting event. We look forward to seeing you there!
If you require any further information or have any questions with regard to this event or the Bead Society of Greater New York, please do not hesitate to contact me by replying to this e-mail.
Best regards,
Hedy Becker
Membership Director
Bead Society of Greater New York
On Saturday, January 31st, the bead community lost an active and creative community member in Patti Whiteley. Patti was a long-time member of the Bead Society of New Jersey until work obligations precluded her attending meetings.
Patti was a designer and fused-glass beadmaker. Her work was featured in the book “1000 Glass Beads.” She often attended Bead & Button, taking classes and enjoying the shopping and schmoozing. She was very active in many online bead communities as well.
Patti’s work can be seen at http://www.pattiwhiteley.com/.
Patti Whiteley at BeadFest
Patti's Fused Glass Pendant
Just received my catalog of classes for Spring 2009 at the Newark Museum and I am very proud to see that three of our members will be teaching classes. Sandy Lupo, Mary Alexander and Marlene Kuser are teaching a variety of jewelry-making classes, as you can see here:
Wire Jewelry: A Comprehensive Primer
with Sandra Lupo
Create beautiful wire jewelry! This comprehensive course covers techniques and tools for working with a variety of wire. Weave, crochet, spiral, coil, hammer, fuse and solder wire, then embellish with beads, cabochons and found objects.
All Levels
Eight Fridays, March 13 through May 8, 10 – 3 pm
Members $315; Non-members $350; Materials $25
Beading between YOUR Lines Bracelet
with Mary Alexander
Experience freedom in design and create your own unique bracelet! Visualize simple ideas for a bracelet with flowing lines and color changes. No detailed designs needed since you can sketch just a few lines on a fullsized
blank “bracelet” diagram to guide your beading. You’ll work with one bead size/shape to make your bracelet. Advanced beginner thru Advanced; Experience with peyote stitch needed.
Saturday, March 7, 10 am – 4 pm
Members $72; Non-members $80
Loopy Hoops: Wire Working for Jewelers
with Marlene Kuser
Transform straight wire into beautiful earring designs in less than an hour. Design up to six pairs of hoop (with a number of loops) earrings from pierced through clip-on. Choose from a variety of shapes: hoops, drops, dangles,
coils and swirls, and decorate with beads. All Levels
Sunday, April 5, 10 am – 4 pm
Members $72; Non-members $80
Twigged ‘n Twined: Cold-Connections in Copper
with Sandra Lupo
Learn cold-connection techniques as you drill leaf stampings, form raduated wire leaf shapes, weave colored wire, create bead clusters and pattern components, including a leaf shape toggle clasp. Variations in copper jewelry can be made in this class as you design your necklace, bracelet, or earrings using the flexible shaft, hammers, and lots of hand tools and fun gadgets in the jewelry studio.
All Levels
Sunday, April 19, 10 am – 4 pm
Members $72; Non-members $80; Materials $35
THE NEWARK MUSEUM
ARTS WORKSHOP
973-596-6607
NewarkMuseum.org
Members of the The Newark Museum receive
a 10% discount on all workshops. To become
a member, call 973-596-6699 today.
Our Own Hillary
Our Own Hillary
I took a look at the website for the Innovative Bead Shows (they do some local shows in Mt. Laurel and Edison) and was surprised and delighted to see our own Hillary Gross will be teaching at some of the shows. Below is the profile and pictures from the “Classes” page:
“Hillary Gross Hillary is new to the Innovative Bead shows but not to the beading community. Her involvement in the art world started as a young child, attending fine arts school at age 8. Her years of needle work and eye for color are evident in her meticulous work. Her great inter-personal skills and desire to help others shows in her teaching. She has taken numerous classes from some of the top artists in the beading and PMC® community. Always learning something new, she loves to pass on great tips and techniques to her students. Hillary has multiple certifications in PMC®. She currently works and teaches at Blue Water Beads in Manasquan, NJ. She also teaches at other venues in the Tri-state area and is currently the program co-chair for The Bead Society of New Jersey.”
Hillary will teach at the following Innovative shows:
Egg Harbor, January
Tarrytown, April
Allentown, June
Edison, August
Mt. Laurel, October
PMC® Intro – Textured Pendant
XOXO Pearl Bracelet
Our very own Board Member, Robin Milne shared her excitement about her photographs being published in a third magazine article. Donna Ryan-Kocun is the author of all three projects in Step By Step Wire Jewelry and Robin photographed the projects step by step. Their 1st article was in the issue Spring 2008, Colorful Foxtail Necklace and was featured on the cover, the second is on the newsstands now, Fall 2008 Bling, Bling Ring and the third will be Winter 2008 and is also featured on the cover. Way to go Robin and Donna!
I think I am technically supposed to blog about glass beads, but this post is about the “glass” part of that!! If you have a chance, schedule a visit to the Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center in Millville NJ. You can read all about it at www.wheatonarts.org I was just there, and it reminded me what a terrific spot it is. The historic glass collection is focussed on NJ and is beautifully displayed. The gift shops are lovely, and this time of year they have a wonderful Christmas shop. Although the high end of what they sell in glass is pricey, they have plenty of affordable stuff, even some glass BEADS! Best of all, you can make a reservation to make a paperweight at the furnace, which is done by appointment only. My husband did it, took about 40 minutes, and then they mail it to you when it is cool. I can believe how beautiful and professional it looks, you could give it as a gift or just treasure it yourself, and he reports it was a lot of fun. Check out the website for more info. I hope everyone is working hard on holiday gifts (I haven’t started, but I should……) Jeri
(Thanks to member Mary Alexander for this hot tip!)
A very creative bead artist named Gini Farnham has decided to close her online bead store. She is selling chances to raffle off all her beads. The winner receives her entire store stock of 11/0 Delicas (EVERY COLOR, including the recently discontinued colors) as well as some larger Delicas and Japanese seed beads.
Somebody just did the math on Gini’s inventory list. Gini’s stash is over *800 POUNDS* of delicas in every color including the discontinued colors.
People can join together in groups to buy a single raffle ticket. Then they get to divide the stash any way they see fit.
If Gini doesn’t get at least 100 participants, everyone will get their raffle ticket money back.
Everyone who enters the raffle will receive an additional gift from Gini: free access to her vintage photograph collection. These photos are copyright free (recently this included more than 66,000 photos and still counting.)
Here’s the link to her webpage: www.CarpeBeadum.com, where she has posted the entire inventory of stock included in the auction, and describes the raffle process in more detail.
The contest will end at NOON Eastern Time October 18, 2008 with the drawings for the Grand Prizes to be held at that time.
Gini’s contest is real and honest – Suzanne Cooper’s newsletter #110 included a link to Gini’s site.
http://www.suzannecooper.com/newsletter/newsletter-110.html
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Why is Gini selling all her beads? Like many of us, she is trying to balance a full time job with her personal life. Hers has a few extra challenges. Her two year old child has Downs Syndrome. Gini has just had a stroke. she can still work and take care of her family, but feels it’s time to let go of the online bead store.
Beadsmith has a new product in the works – “Silverline.” Silverline is a knitted wire which comes in gold and silver color and different thicknesses. It can be braided, shaped, embellished…there are lots of possibilities! In fact, Beadsmith has agreed to provide us with Silverline for a future meeting where we can all play with it.
Some months ago Beadsmith sent me some Silverline and asked me to play with it. I came up with a few ideas for it and brought them into Beadsmith to show them. A few weeks ago I got an e-mail with an attachment of the new packaging for the product, and my projects and my name will be appearing on the packaging! It’s very exciting for me.
Silverline Packaging
Barbara Egnor delighted us with her polymer clay necklaces at the September meeting – they looked just like stones! I called her “Barbara Rubble.” Her necklaces inspired Kim Cavender, polymer clay artist, author, and instructor. Kim also has a blog titled “Imagine the Uncommon Things: Musings on polymer clay, creativity, rocks and other things.” Her blog can be seen at http://kimcavender.blogspot.com/.
The necklace shown below, made by member Barbara Egnor, inspired Kim and she writes about meeting and talking to Barbara in her October 1, 2008 blog post.
Barbara Egnor Necklace
Bead Society of New Jersey 