Good morning! This Sunday it's a beautiful, sunny and warm day here in Silicon Valley where I live. I've still got a ton of work to do to finish my workroom re-organization and clean up, but I've taken a bit of a break to wander around the Beadosphere and share some great spots to visit!
- Lisa at A Bead A Day answers my question "Do people macrame anymore?" and shares a gorgeous bracelet with a square Swarovski Crystal Volcano bead.
- From Tish at Just A Tish - August Peridot and What do the stones say? And check out Tish's booth!
- Melissa over on Strands shares The Tides, a necklace using mosaic turquoise and one of her fine silver Sea Pendants.
- AJ at ErtheFae's Meandering Thoughts: Chthulu gets a beaded makeover
- Art Bead Scene - The August Challenge is here. The artwork picked to inspire you for the challenge this month is Kanagawa oki nami ura (Great Wave off of Kanagawa) by Hokusai Katsushiki. This print is one of the series of block prints known as the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (circa 1826-33). The prizes.
- Silver Parrot - fabulous bead haul from Pasadena bead show with tons of pictures
- On Thyme2Dream help the Fae Elven Fashionista win the contest
- Janeen's 365 - what will these become?
- Karolyn at The Bead Blog beautiful metallic beads and Ekho crystals beads
- SmuTopia has a new camera and provides some suggestions for shopping for a good jewelry photographing camera.
- You'll spend hours admiring the photos from the 2009 Bead Dreams feature.
- From The Beadin' Path, Great discussion of Steampunk in Weekly Beadditudes with Dara
- Rings & Things blog: Carnelian and Russ Troll has a Facebook Contest going on (you'll need to scroll down a bit) with the lucky winner getting to be a "GUEST BEAD WORKER" at a genuine Rings & Things "BeadTour" bead show!
- Soft Flex Girl reminds you that your opportunity to enter the Flex Your Creativity contest ends soon!
- The Artbeads Blog for Beaders talks about a visit to the Swarovski concept store and shares a beautiful necklace by Linda Moseley in their gallery of customer designs
- Objects and Elements Challenge: Color deadline: Aug 21
And from suppliers:
Hope you enjoyed the trip - have a wonderful week, 'til next time!
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Great things in this post. I'm going to have to put your blog on my regular "to read" list. And thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind words - I enjoy your site, too and love what you've done with the Artbeads picks. I'm still working through the rest of mine - hoping after the big clean-up I can post a couple new pieces with the remaining ones.
ReplyDelete- Dawno, this is a public service by you. Thanks so much for the pointers to send us busy bead lovers to the best browsing of the week :)
ReplyDelete--Dave
You're so kind, as always - if only more folk would visit, I'd agree. As it is, it's kind of a way for me to bookmark 'em for myself...Maybe Sunday isn't the best day to do this...
ReplyDeletethank you so much for puttin a link to me from your blog. it is the best compliment i could ever have.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! I try to always give my frequent commenters (and bestest beading buddies) a link or two each week.
ReplyDeleteAww! Thanks for the link back to my site! ^_^
ReplyDeleteI actually have a finished piece for that pile-o-beads. I'm working on launching a blog on just my creative work soon, and think that completed piece will be one of my first posts. I'll send a link your way when it's ready.
Janeen,
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome and I can't wait to see your new blog!