Musings

Musings on “Variations on a Theme”
One of my favorite parts of beadmaking and teaching is the idea to come up with a new design without really creating something entirely new, I...
One spacer at a time = a lot of time
23rd of August
Since I had the pleasure of welcoming a few new members to the group, I thought there was time for an update. If you have been “with me” for a...
People who change our lives
I think we all have people in our lives who influenced us in a way we had no idea at the time. This weekend I thought of one of those people…I don’t...
How NOT to make a Clownfish murrini
In the summer of 2010, during a particularly hot week, I decided to spend a little time in my studio and make something easy and relaxing, like a...
Flowers in Our Garden
Hi, I wanted to invite you to take a tour of our flower garden! In a perfect world, each picture would be accompanied by a corresponding floral bead...
Bead Darwinism
What could beads have possibly to do with Charles Darwin? Well, yesterday I was just sitting around, contemplating this and that, and I wondered how...