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| Dear Beading Daily Subscriber, Did you miss any Beading Daily e-newsletters this week? Well here’s our week in review—all of this week’s Beading Daily posts in one place! Bead Happy!  Learn Something New - Expert Tips for Etching Copper Jewelry August 8, 2011 I'll be the first to admit that I know absolutely nothing about working with metal when it comes to jewelry making, but making metal jewelry has always intrigued me. I can remember when I was in college watching with envy as my friends who were art majors took metal working and came out of their classes with gorgeous copper pendants and bracelets. I still have a copper and enamel pendant that was made and given to me by a close friend, and it's one of my favorite funky jewelry pieces!Still, I sometimes think about clearing a space in my glass workshop and experimenting with metals for jewelry making, and after watching Metalsmith Essentials: Jewelry Etching on Copper with Lexi Erickson, I'm definitely ready to give etching on copper a try! Read More . . . Beading Projects On the Go - Tips for Traveling With Your Beads August 10, 2011
It's summer, and that means that lots of people are hitting the road for a vacation. I'll be packing up my beads and heading to a couple of beading classes this summer, too, so I thought I'd share some tips for storing and traveling with your beads!The first summer that I did any serious traveling with my beads was the year I did farmer's markets every weekend. Because I had a lot of down time, I found myself bringing along beading projects to keep myself busy. Each week, I'd grab another bag with a set of beads for a project in it and toss it into my tote bag. Pretty soon, I discovered that I was hauling around a rolling carry-on suitcase, stuffed full of beads and beading projects! Needless to say, this method was less than ideal, and since then, I've discovered a few ways to make it easy to travel with my beads. (Check out the Beading Daily blog for two more suggestions for traveling with your beads around the house and around the neighborhood!) Read More . . . 5 Tips for Buying Beads at a Bead Show - Get Ready for Bead Fest Philadelphia! August 12, 2011
I can still remember the very first time I went to Bead Fest Philadelphia. I had just opened a bead shop with two business partners. I was a month away from getting married. And I had never, ever been to a bead show before. To say that I was overwhelmed when I walked onto the show floor was an understatement. There were beads EVERYWHERE! It was like a dream come true and a nightmare all at once - I didn't know where to look first, and I didn't want to miss a thing. It was a wonderful and exhausting weekend where I got to try a new kind of lampworking torch (I was heavy into glass at the time), picked up a beautiful carved frog Tagua nut bead, took two amazing classes and basked in the energy of all the wonderful bead people surrounding me. Read More . . . |  |  Jen VanBenschoten is the editor of Beading Daily
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