Dawno's Weekly Wanderings Around the Beadosphere

Well, are we ready to wander? Another fun week to share:

• Tish from Just A Tish has had some great ideas this week - a grassroots artist's exchange and another on an Artist's Challenge. Plus beautiful pendants.


• Lisa from A Bead A Day has been sharing her great buys this week from ConsumerCrafts.com. I'm still waiting for my package to come, I responded later to their invitation. However, you can take advantage of the free shipping code they sent me right now if you like - enter XPV3CCQ at checkout, it's good until 09/02/09.


• Jessica of SmuTopia! shows off her lovely Etsy treasury.


• I know I mentioned this the other day, but it's worth repeating - see Blanche's Use the Muse II design on her Sha-sha's Handcrafted Jewelry Blog.


• Janeen entered one, too - she hasn't posted it on her blog yet but you can see it here.


• Wonderful designs, and a fun, conversational style of writing on Selepharia's blog


• I love these ideas for finding unusual findings in re-use stores on Art Bead Scene from Jennifer Heynen of Jangles

Supplier Blogs/Blog Partners

• Dara at The Beadin' Path shares her finished Ugly Bug.


• Rings & Things is having their Anniversary sale at their Spokane warehouse this weekend but last week they blogged about some useful business tips and their contest to get to be a guest helper at one of their Northeast bead tour shows.
  


• However, Sara "The Soft Flex Girl" was there - here's her post about the day (with great pictures!) and she also points us to the August articles at the Soft Flex site and an article by Margie Deeb on color + more.


• And speaking of Margie Deeb, are you following (or subscribed to the feed for) her Color for Beader Artists blog? Well, why not!?


• I followed some links to Cindy Lavin's Beading Arts blog where she gives a lovely step by step tutorial on making a beautiful Swarovski necklace for the Artbeads Blogging for Beads program.
• Margot Potter also has also created a lovely necklace for Artbeads with Swarovski crystals, called Black Forest. The darker colors with gunmetal are a great combination for fall and winter.

Not beading posts but good reading for beaders anyway:

• Shiny Adornments shares 15 ways of Maintaining Sanity at Work


• What does this blog have to do with beading? Oh, I'm sure you'll see the parallels!

Well, that's it for this Sunday's Beadosphere tour - if you've missed any of these in the past or my Thursday Reviews & Interviews they're all archived at Dawno's Beadosphere.

Thanks for Wandering the Beadosphere with me today!



P.S. I've caught up with my Art Fire listing goals - here's four new pieces:

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