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 Beaders’ New Year Resolutions
by Jeanette Shanigan
Happy New Year! In addition to good wishes and plenty of good cheer, the entrance to a new year is often paved with good intentions, more commonly referred to as “New Year’s Resolutions.”
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 “Bead Societies - Join One or Start One”
by Jeanette Shanigan
I love beads! But, horror of horrors, now and then my beads are just not enough. I need the camaraderie and inspiration of my buddies at the local bead society. Bead societies exist in virtually every state
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 Dive into the Pond
by Jeanette Shanigan
Beads, findings, beading books, classes, tools, and components are readily available at your local bead shop as well as craft and fabric chain stores. Heck, you’ll even find them at the big-box stores.
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 Bead It Forward
by Jeanette Shanigan
In February 1985, my mother died after a 15-year battle with cancer. At my mother’s passing, I vowed that I would honor memory for the remainder of my own life.
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 UFO Encounters
by Jeanette Shanigan
You folks who are new to beading might be scratching your heads and wondering what the heck flying saucers and aliens have to do with seed beads and beadwork. But in bead-speak, a UFO is an Unfinished Object.
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 Copyrighting Beadwork
by Jeanette Shanigan
Recent issues of all the bead-related magazines featured articles and editorials about beadwork ethics. It seems appropriate to add a beadwork designer’s perspective to that information.
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 Passing on the Beadwork Tradition
by Jeanette Shanigan
Grandma, when are we gonna start our fair projects?” Now that fireworks have come and gone, my grand kids know it’s time for us to start working on the annual fair projects. Since they were two to three years old
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 Ten Reasons to Support Your Local Bead Stores
by Jeanette Shanigan
I prefer to shop for my personal stash of beads at my local bead shops. Rarely, do I shop by mail or on-line. Only when I can’t find what I need locally, do I turn on-line shopping.
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 Develop Skills to Become a Successful Teacher & Designer
by Jeanette Shanigan
I realize that some folks might covet teaching opportunities, but those who aspire to follow in my footsteps need to know that it’s been a long, arduous, sometimes frustrating, but always rewarding, journey.
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 Sharing My Beady Links
by Jeanette Shanigan
I just spent a week with my 75-year-old father. Besides visiting, my goal was to teach him how to use the computer that was collecting dust in the corner.
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 Using Bead-Graphing Software
by Jeanette Shanigan
For some reason the holiday season is the time that I really gravitate to my bead-graphing software. I’ve always been a bit daft about holiday decorating, so I suppose it makes sense.
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 Murphy's Law and Beads
by Jeanette Shanigan
We've all heard of Murphy's Law, right? Though the dictionary says the origin is obscure, I suspect that Murphy's Law may have been an attempt to describe the first virus or worm
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 Have a Heart and Give Something Beady Back!
by Jeanette Shanigan
As you know, I am passionate about my charitable cause of choice: Bead-It-Forward Project for Bead Artists against Breast Cancer, but as someone pointed out to me recently, not everyone rides the same bandwagon.
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 Ireland, a Source of Inspiration
by Jeanette Shanigan
For a while now, I’ve been thinking of writing an article about inspiration. I haven’t because I could never find exactly the right words to explain and describe how inspiration happens to me.
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 Aspiring to Be a Beadwork Designer
by Jeanette Shanigan
First of all, what is a beadwork designer? In my mind there are really several variations of the designer: the hobbyist, who creates for personal use; the professional, who creates to earn income; the artis...
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 The Breast Cancer Beaded Quilts
by Jeanette Shanigan
Nearly all of us know someone whose life has been affected by breast cancer. In my case my mother died of breastbone cancer in 1985. At her passing I promised myself that I’d find a way to honor her memory.
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 Ten Bead Lessons Learned the Hard Way
by Jeanette Shanigan
We’ve all been there — rushing to finish a piece of beadwork. Sometimes, it’s a last-minute gift or a piece to match a new outfit or a piece with a deadline for a competition/class proposal. I
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 Success Beyond my Wildest Dreams
by Jeanette Shanigan
You see, we share a passion — we have taken a pro-active, united stand against breast cancer. Each one of us, reflecting our own individual situation, has found a niche in the united stand.
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 So You Want to Be a Beadwork Teacher
by Jeanette Shanigan
I just taught my six-year-old granddaughter how to make a daisy-chain bracelet. Now, I’ve never really comprehended why daisy chain is considered by many to be an easy, perfect-for-kids technique,
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 Keeping a Bead Journal
by Jeanette Shanigan
Keeping a bead journal is a valid beady aspiration. But by most people’s definition a journal represents writing frequently to express the private thoughts, feelings and emotions surrounding life’s events.
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 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
by Jeanette Shanigan
As I'm sure you are all aware, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Those of us with a passion for beads can support raising funds for breast cancer research through Bead Artists Against Breast Cancer.
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 A Season for Everything — even UFO’s
by Jeanette Shanigan
Beads are my passion. Beads and beadwork will always be my passion. Beads never bore me. But every now and again, I find myself in a situation where I have to graciously abandon my beloved beads and try something else.
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 Tis the Season
by Jeanette Shanigan
Yes, once again, it’s that time of year. This past weekend my granddaughter Savannah spent the night at Grandma’s because her parents were attending the first of the holiday adult parties.
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 Happy New Beading Year
by Jeanette Shanigan
Happy new year; note the emphasis on new. Since it is a new year, why not think about what will be new in your beady world this year? Especially if you’ve been doing beadwork for a few years.
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 Quilting Circles
by Jeanette Shanigan
I’ve never made a traditional fabric quilt, nor been particularly interested in them. But that attitude changed somewhat 15 years ago, when out of the blue, I received a fabulous handmade quilt in the mail.
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 The Case of the Mysterious Irish Bead
by Jeanette Shanigan
Take the case of the beaded necklace found in a Middle Bronze Age (1500-1200 BC) burial mound in Tara, Ireland. A necklace of amber, jet, and faience beads was uncovered, which were identical to ones found in King Tut’s tomb!
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