Studio Scoop

Taking a new path

There’s going to be some changes here at sweet bead studio. I thought I’d better fill you in before you’re taken by surprise. The sweet bead studio website is celebrating it’s 2nd anniversary soon and it seems like yesterday that I was excited to make that new start. I was fortunate to work with the […]

Sweet hearts and metal hearts!

April 8th….today is our anniversary. Can you guess how many years we’ve been married?? Fourteen years and 4 kids later, here we are! I came downstairs this morning to find several notes like this around the house: I know I’m a lucky girl. I think I’ll just have to keep him. 🙂 I recently finished […]

Fresh inspiration!

How was your weekend? As I type, it is snowing outside. You may have heard about the wintry storm hitting us here on the East Coast. I’m crossing my fingers that it will be enough to cancel school tomorrow. Today was a nice, slow day. After church this morning we enjoyed fellowship and meeting new […]

A Fresh Face

Notice a few changes around here? 🙂 How do you like the new layout and features here on the blog? I can thank Sara over at getpalmd for her technical assistance in updating my blog design. It was amazing to connect with someone who is all the way over in Helsinki, Finland. At just 20, she sure knows […]

Branching Out

If you’re stopping by to see what’s new, I do have some studio scoop to share. Those of you who receive my newsletter already know what I’m going to say (and if you don’t receive my newsletter…please go sign up on my shop homepage!). For you crafters and artists out there, you knew it was […]

Exciting news for sweet bead studio!

My little beady dreams have come true. 🙂 I am so excited to announce that you can find my original wire jewelry tutorials in the current issues of two jewelry magazines!!! The Summer ’08 issue of Step by Step Wire recently hit the news stands and includes my wire and lampwork necklace “Heartstrings”. You may remember this […]

Holiday Extravaganza Preview

This weekend I’m going to participate in the Seventh Annual Holiday Extravaganza Craft Festival. This will be my first time showing at this craft fair, and I’m looking forward to it! I will be sharing a table with my fellow jewelry-making friend Chrissie. If you are in the area, please come by. Here is the info: Thomas Jefferson High School for Information […]

Seen and heard

I received a nice surprise this weekend. Lisa from iza-bella emailed to say she had featured me on her blog, The Mommy Designer. Lisa is a mom of two and runs a graphic design business as well as her own children’s clothing line. If you click here, you can read her kind words about sweet […]

Back to basics…I mean, back to beads!

Last night I finally did something I have been wanting to do for a long time. Even though it was almost 10:00, the anticipation of finally doing this sure gave me a second wind! Armed with a bowl of ice-cream, I flipped through one of my reference books for a quick refresher (heaven forbid I […]