Today I want to introduce you to an amazingly talented beader. Anika Jaumann’s elegant beadwork designs are a delight to behold! Inspirati...

The new 15/o seed bead Egyptian medallion is finished! I’m not completely thrilled with how it turned out – the beadwork is fine, but the tr...

Scouring my bead stash last week for spring inspired bead colors gave me a chance to really examine the materials that I have on hand right...

The new Egyptian motif medallion is coming along very nicely, although I’ve already rediscovered the pitfalls that made me stay away from gr...

Three years ago this month I was diving head first into the Egyptian Gods Jewelry Challenge , and working feverishly on the entry of Sobek t...

Though it’s coming along slowly, the new mini collar is almost finished, and then I’ll be moving on to a few new things. I’ve started on the...

Whenever new beading or jewelry materials come on the scene, it’s always exciting to see where designers will take them. One of the most ama...

After all of the miscellaneous projects that I had on the go during the last few weeks of Christmas, my bead tray feels sort of empty this w...

I have a whole list of new inspirations, projects, and tutorials to work on, but for the moment they’re all on hold while I complete a bead ...

As beaders, we’re all quite adept at stretching and surpassing the norms of jewelry design. Our methods couldn’t be more different from the ...

This week I’m juggling a couple of small projects while I wait for my next big inspiration. I started a new fish leather medallion a few day...

The line between bead lovers and bead horders can be very thin – if it exists at all – and there’s no doubt that bead embroidery is one of t...

Working on my new Tutankhamun collar this month reminded me – as these projects often do – of one of my very first Egyptian beadwork pieces....