It is that time of year again, where I make beads non-stop for a month or so in preparation for the Berks Bead Baazar.
Berks Bead Bazaar is such a wonderful little bead show. Yes, it's little, BUT the vendors there are top quality. You can go there and get everything you need, and cut out the 600 other people you have to walk by to get to them (like at larger bead shows).
Here is a great post about the show from Joan Miller last year: The Little Show that Could
It was the first bead show I attended (where I fell in love with art beads), and the first bead show I sold my beads at as well. So, its special to me. The artists are top notch- plus they are plain old fun to hang around with too.
This year B.B.B. has made a blog and a Facebook page. You can follow along as us beady gals and guys prep. You can get previews of what you may find there, and there may even be some artist interviews.
I hope you can stop by if you are in the Reading PA area the first weekend of March. I also hope you don't mind the million pictures of beads I may, (most likely will) bombard you with.
So, these are some of my newer style beads. I am having fun adding color back into the mix. I kinda took a break last year, and really dug into my earthy, dirty and ancient muse. This year, there will still be ancient- but I was missing color.
I am also trying to make some new hearts this year- I get bored easily, and didn't look forward to making more hearts. However this style with the black and colors really worked well to intrigue me enough to make more hearts! I am smitten with them.
I also made some new owls. I wasn't going to do the owl thing, I really wasn't........but then I challenged myself to make owls that were still my style. So I made some tribal ones last year, and these are my newest ones.
I have also been obsessed with making earring pairs in polymer. I began doing them for me- so that I have some easy earring assembly down the road, but I am making more then I can use, so to the show they will come!
I leave you with the view from my back porch. We have had the snowiest winter this year in the north east. Its wonderful, (except I hate driving in it)....but it makes for good bead production.
I am off to paint more beads, and bake more beads and paint more beads................you get the picture.
6 comments:
I love your earring pairs! Sound like a great little show that you are part of. I'm about to brave the overwhelming masses of the Tucson show myself. Not as a vendor though. I learned my lesson about that years ago!
I love the round, fat, purple owls!
It does sound like a really fantastic show, I wish I lived close enough to attend it! Love the beads and pendants you're creating. You have such a unique and artistic style! I look forward to hearing more about the show; I will live vicariously through your posts about it!
good luck, staci - the beads look great and i understand what you mean about getting bored easily. the grungy work is terrific - love all of the sooty black accent in the color.
Glass round beads, resin, molds, heat tools, dyes are perfect matching for making jewelery products.Thanks for sharing...
These are all absolutely gorgeous! I wish I could go, just for the experience of seeing all your beads in person. ♥
I am in love with your crackle tutorial by the way, it has definitely been fueling my own paint some beads/bake some beads cycle! Have fun at the bead show! I wish I could make it, if it were only a little bit closer... but a seven hour drive is a bit much. I need a teleportation device!
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