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Pearls of Wisdom  By Aunt Acid
Right On!  Write Off!! Power To The People!
Ah, kiddies, your old Aunt Acid remembers when those phrases first became popular back in the 1960’s. The young people then were becoming aware of all sorts of wonderful things…the power of music and art, of group efforts.....

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Pearls of Wisdom  By Aunt Acid
Answers to Your Question No. 1 by Aunt Acid
What's up with the whole earring thing for men these days? Does it even matter? One earring, two? Either side? Individual male preference?? Personally, I thought that maybe when they started wearing two at a time that they would help us out. . .

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Pearls of Wisdom  By Aunt Acid
Answers to Your Question No.2 by Aunt Acid
I have been thinking about consumerism and how it relates to the accelerating spiral of fad and fashion cycles. For instance, 200 years ago, fashion experienced gradual shifts over the course of decades.

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Bead Artists Against Breast Cancer Silent Auction
by Alice Korach
On the front page of The Bead Bugle, you’ll see two links for the Breast Cancer Silent Auction. This auction, in its fifth year, has been a labor of love for Tonette, the Bead Babe, Playle’s who has hosted it every year, me, and Lora G at Bead&Button.

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First Anniversary
by Alice Korach
With hardly anyone noticing it, BeadBugle.Com has turned into a real beading magazine over the course of the past year. In fact, a year’s worth of the Bead Bugle has as much or more valuable and interesting than print magazines.

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Beads help children fight cancer 
by Alice Korach
Beads of Courage® (www.beadsofcourage.net) is a wonderful program that was started at Phoenix Children’s Hospital by Jean M. Baruch. It touches the lives of children undergoing treatment for cancer in a personal and beady way.

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New Bugle Feature Starts This Week
by Alice Korach
Those of you who are long-time BeadBugle.com visitors are probably wondering why the Bugle has suddenly started offering two levels of access. As in the past, most of the Bugle is still free.

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Beads and Hearts
by Alice Korach
I just returned from Tucson. I’m a living testimony that you can have a marvelous time at the biggest bead show(s) in the world and spend almost no money. In the past, I always committed horrible assaults on my checkbook and credit cards.

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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.

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One of the Nicest Things About Beaders
by Alice Korach 
One of the things I love most about the beading community is how we all respect each others’ rights to her own beliefs and religious and political views and how unimportant those personal things are in our dealings with each other.

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Beads on a String
by Alice Korach
I was reminded yet again that people who like beads and working with them tend to be awfully nice people. There’s something about sitting around a table and sharing the pleasure of beading.

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Being Purple
by Alice Korach
Purple is often a fugitive color in glass beads. Many of the most beautiful purple seed beads are dyed, painted (inside or outside), or coated, and very few of those wonderful purple colors are light- or color-fast. It’s just the nature of the color.

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What is Art?
By Alice Korach
Nealay Patel asked a heartfelt question on the Bead Bugle recently, “How do I get discovered as an artist?” Well, of course, that’s the million dollar question. And the blunt, unpleasant answer is that most of us won’t.

Aunt Acid’s Day of The Dead Apperance
Aunt Acid is now participating in Day of the Dead Festivities in the front window of Nomad Designs, a wonderful and creative spot in Boulder Colorado filled with exotic goodies (besides Auntie!!) where you can find beads and lots of other things from around the world.