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 A Beaded Bracelet Primer
Bracelets are a great way to learn new beading techniques since they are long enough to get good repetitions and sufficient practice but short enough to complete easily.
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 Signs of a Bead Lover
Tell tale “signs” that you are truly addicted to beads
(this article has been added to by our readers)
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 Why I Bead
An interesting and unique insight on why people bead.
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 Troubleshooting Broken Jewelry
A wonderful primer on troubleshooting broken jewelry.
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 There Is More Than One Way to Choose A Birthstone
Know ALL the ways and methods to select a birthstone. This informative information will help you sell more jewelry.
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 Carats and Karats
Learn the origins of the words bracelet, necklace, bola, brooch and other fun things
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 Why Is a Bracelet Called a Bracelet?
Learn the origins of the words bracelet, necklace, bola, brooch and other fun things
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 A Beaders Dozen: A list of rules and practices for all Beaders
A useful and informative set of rules to remember if you are a seed beader.
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 Making Dream catchers? Beware
O.K., so we know that dream catchers in their modern form and all the stories about what they are and which Native Americans used them are made up. We also know that the Chippewa "Spider Web" charm was probably the inspiration for them all.
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 Bead Shopping In Paris
Head to the city that most of Europe goes to when they need to buy beads in wholesale quantities, or even just retail quantities, but need variety of many styles and types: Paris, France.
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 The Beading Circle
Every Thursday night at 6:30, my grandmother would get together with a group of women from our church and they would sit and bead. But the gathering wasn’t just about beading. It was a time to share stories and talk about family issues. “I’m leaving for my beading circle,” she would say, “You commin’?”
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 The Beauty of Beads
I often walk through my local bead store looking for inspiration in the shiny glass that surrounds me. I fish through tubs of beads for just the right one, look at the sale tables for a good deal, and shake my head over the once-again-risen cost of Bali silver and turquoise.
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 A Necklace Primer: All about designing necklaces
Ahhh, necklaces. What better way to use those truly fabulous beads, those unusual shapes and those yummy colors – not to mention the great opportunities necklaces offer to showcase your talents as a beader! Necklaces can take over your wardrobe, but don’t worry; it’s all good.
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 Treasures From Tucson
That was the heading on the postcard from one of my two favorite bead stores here in Sacramento. I left it lay in a highly visible location on our dinning table, where my husband could not miss seeing it. W. So, yes I was going to go see what the store had purchased.
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 How I Met Helen Dietz
Helen Dietz inspired my obsession with beads and jewelry making, and she came into my life at just the right moment. Our community center was offering a class, "Turn Old Jewelry into New," at the modest price of $45 for 5 five-hour sessions. What a bargain that was, even in 1992.
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 Jablonecs nad Nisou
by Guy Lynn
We buy glass beads in Jablonecs nad Nisou, where importers have been going for 500 years to buy glass beads for the jewelry trade. First mentioned as a town in 1385, it was originally situated in the kingdom of Bohemia
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 The Biggest Bead Show in the World - Tucson Gem Show
by Guy Lynn
Mark your calendar – January 26th through February 11th (dates vary slightly from year to year). Put a star next to it, underline it, highlight it, and tell all your friends and family not to bother you at home during this time
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 Zimbabwe – The Death of a Nation
by Guy Lynn
By now, most people who keep up with current affairs in international news know about the crisis in Zimbabwe: Like Hype-inflation at 1,000% a year, Aids/HIV at 20% of the population or a projected orphanage rate of 90%
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 The Twelve Steps of Beaders Anonymous
By Threse McCarten
A very funny look at the excesses that all dedicated beaders seem to experience.
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 Advice to Newbies
by Sherry Wells
I have been “playing” with beads for almost a year now. I have always loved big jewelry. I figured I could have better quality for less money if I made it myself. I was designing a necklace today and felt good about how it was turning out.
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 Internet Shopping Has its Benefit
by Theresa Guthrie
Having been in the internet bead business for 13 years, my husband and I have found that there are many upsides of offering beads for sale on line. Our customers go out of their way to meet up with me
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 You Can Create Excellent Images Without a Digital Camera
by Patricia C. Vener
I do not own a digital camera. I do own, however, an excellent scanner, a Microtek Scan Maker s400, and a superb graphics utility, Photo Impact version 8.
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 From One Little Knot Many Micro Macramé Projects Grow
By Kris and Bob Buchanan of Aesthetic License
Yup it’s true! By mastering just one simple knot, which many of you may already know or remember from the macramé craze of the 1970 and 80s, you can create beautiful beaded necklaces and bracelets.
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 Ethics 101
By Alice Korach
What’s wrong with repeating a class project and selling it? A student is not buying the rights to the project you are being taught. The person who created the is the only one who has the right to profit from that design.
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 How I Design
by Alice Korach
Not long ago a Bugle reader asked me how I come up with my jewelry designs. Thinking about how to answer her got me reflecting on how my mind processes the things I see. I like to look at the world out of the corners of my eyes. This means that some of my best ideas come from only partially seeing something.
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 Beaded Flowers Introduction
by Rosemary Kurtz
Bead flowers can be used in every way you use silk or fresh flowers. The only difference is that it will be many, many years before bead flowers deteriorate. Therefore, they make ideal inserts in bridal bouquets, bridal headdresses, etc.
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 Bead shopping in Hong Kong
by Guy Lynn
Another really wonderful place to go bead shopping if you want a change from Europe is Hong Kong – the shopping jewel of Asia.Hong Kong was a British Colony that returned to China in 1997 as a special economic region.
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