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Last Minute Fun

February 22, 2010

Living up to my self proclaimed moniker “Last Minute Libby”, I have had a manic rush of studio activity.  E has a pair of friends coming home from college with her at the end of the week, so the house needs cleaning.  I’ve got tons to do in order to get ready to leave for [...]

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Bead & Button Show _ Sherry Serafini class & Meet The Teachers

June 3, 2009

My class today was a bead embroidered cuff class with Bead Goddess Sherry Serafini. This is the third class I’ve taken with Sherry over the years.  She is a generous, wonderful teacher and person.  It says a lot about the quality of her teaching that the majority of the students in our class today had [...]

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Beading Gremlins

January 15, 2009

I have some kind of beading curse or beading gremlins.  Beading projects, especially bracelets,  generally don’t go smoothly for me.  When I did more bead stringing, I could never string a bracelet in one try.  For one reason or another, despite semi-careful measuring and planning, it always seemed to take me three tries (or more) [...]

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Stuff I love – Trays

June 25, 2008

I have no idea what started me thinking about this subject, but I thought I’d write about one of my favorite studio supplies today: trays. I’ve got 2 distinct favorites, cafeteria trays in full and half size and the half size square jeweler’s trays. Put a piece of bead mat (or vellux blanket) on one [...]

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The pleasure of like minded company

March 30, 2008

I had a delightful weekend. I was at a Sherry Serafini workshop at my local bead shop, Beads East. I took a workshop with Sherry last year at Bead & Button, and I jumped on the opportunity to take a class with her in my neighborhood. Apart from the class (which was wonderful) and the [...]

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Class bracelets

March 15, 2008

Last weekend I taught a Cane Slice Caterpillar Bracelet class at the So. CT Polymer Clay Guild’s annual Weekend of Clay. It’s not a difficult project, just a bit time consuming. We were working primarily in black and white so it was a bit tricky seeing the black thread against the black beads. Everyone did [...]

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