Dawno's Beaded Badge Lanyards and Jewelry

Ok, so last time was catching up on worktables and showing finished items. This time I'll share the next one from June when I finally got back to work. The work was almost complete, unlike a lo...

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Time to start catching up from my last post! Amazed that it's been over a month - the time has really flown past! WhedonCon was a lot of fun and the booth looked great. I had a fabulous corner ...

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Another Wednesday and a new worktable to share! I'm working on a necklace design using the coral beads for the two peach cameos at the top, the green flower cabochon is a printed cloisonn...

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I try to get out to the studio after work since the sun is still up when I get home these days. Wednesday I played around with a few ideas and posted them to the creative group's WTW Pinteres...

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Each week the creative group on the B'sue Boutique's Facebook page posts the work they finished up that week. It's called Finished Up Fridays but we get until Saturday as a concession to those of...

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I've been very busy lately in the studio working on new pieces for the upcoming WhedonCon as well as my online shops. Thought I'd share some of the work in progress. The pendant below is a grea...

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I have this blog listed as the site to visit if you click on the Whedon Con ‘Sunnyvale Mall’ page and realized I hadn’t published anything here in years! Mostly I publish on my Facebook pag...

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Since I enjoy loom bead weaving so much, I thought I'd try to do some off loom weaving. For my first attempt I bought the components as a kit from Fusion Beads (except for the Silkon thread and t...

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I have been doing some bead weaving lately, learning some of both on and off loom techniques. It's a bit time consuming (especially off loom, which is completely new to me) and I don't know when ...

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Yesterday I showed you one of the necklaces I am working on this week. It was from this worktable submitted to the B'Sue Creative Group on Facebook: I have really appreciated being a part of...

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Back to the studio worktable from my break over the holidays! I hope yours was as lovely as mine. My son was home from his Army post in Georgia, an my daughter visited several times from across t...

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A few years ago I made some ribbon bookmarks with beads and other embellishments to take to one of the Science Fiction conventions where I was a vendor. The conventions I did were not like ComicC...

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Edit: I posted the necklace to a Facebook group I belong to and got a really good suggestion. I've added a postscript to this posting below to cover the change. Between the day job and gettin...

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Last couple of weeks have been very busy! On the 18th & 19th I was showing at the CATESOL conference in San Diego. The show went very well; I was pleased with the sales and the wonderful support ...

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This is a closeup from one of my Work Table Wednesday pictures for a Facebook group I have joined. Owl. Pendant setting. Not bad as is, yes? But what could be done to make it more appealing and ...

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I've been working on a number of mixed media and assemblage pieces lately and thought I'd go through my steps on two recent ones. First off, I knew I wanted to use this flower in a necklace. So...

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Over on Facebook there's a group,B'sue Boutiques Creative Group, that I have followed for some time as a regular customer of B'sue. Lately I've posted a few times for their Work Table Wednesday (...

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I'm working on stocking my Etsy and Art Fire stores again, they've been empty for ages and when I was able to do 4 or 5 shows a year it didn't matter to me much, but this year looks like I won't ...

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I'm trying to fill up my ArtFire store, so I'm taking pictures of my finished pieces. Sometimes when I look at the picture on my computer before uploading it to my store I find myself less satisf...

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Insert favorite time metaphor here... This is one of my newer pieces. I used two Russian Gold plated ornate wing stampings that come in right and left facing designs, a brass crescent for t...

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ConDor is a smallish con, but it was about twice as large as I'd heard it would be, at over 600 attendees. The programming looked great, if I weren't working I definitely would have gone to the p...

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I had a great time at this year's Her Royal Majesty's Steampunk Symposium on the Queen Mary this year. It was bittersweet because my dad passed away in October and he had helped me last year, s...

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It's been a very challenging year, and you know that saying about best laid plans. I had hoped to be better organized and back to regular posting long before now, as well as getting to work on a ...

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I'm trying to get to the back of the new studio through the stacks of boxes! Until I can do that, I'm not able to work on new pieces or do tutorials like I want to. I am really looking forward to...

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BayCon 2012 was wonderful. Had a great time and did well. Thanks to the Hyatt hospitality and events staff for being great to the dealers as well as for coming by to shop! I didn't take many pi...

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