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Happy Birthday Buddha!

Monday, April 8th, 2013

This is the holiest of Buddhist holy days, celebrating the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and death, or attaining of Nirvana. What better way to celebrate a figure who inspired so many to change their thinking than with some amazing handmade treasures from the talented hands and minds of our own HandmadeArtists. SRA Relic Handmade Lampwork Buddha [...]

Tags: beads, birthday, buddha, Buddha Tutorial, enlightenment, Handmade, handmadeartists, handmadeBuddha, lampwork, onesie, tutorial

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4 Reasons You Should Go to Gem and Bead Shows

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

Here are 4 Reasons You Should Go to Gem and Bead Shows, Even if You Don’t Make Jewelry! If you don’t attend a bead show this season, you could be shortchanging yourself and your business. Even if your craft has nothing to do with beads or gemstones, ideally, you should visit a major show but [...]

Tags: bead shows, beads, Handmade, Handmade Artists, handmade shows, hot colors for spring 2013, jewelry shows, Tucson Gem Show

Posted in Handmade | 4 Comments »

Memories of Christmas Past-Part 3

Saturday, January 12th, 2013

I hope everyone had a wonderful and joyous holiday season. As previously described in my postings, “Memories of Christmas Past-Part 1“, and Memories of Christmas Past -Part 2, the holidays are a wonderful time to make memories with friends and family. While decorating each year I think about the time and creativity that my mother [...]

Tags: artisan, beads, buy handmade, decoration, felt, handcrafted, Handmade, upcycle, upcycling

Posted in Creative Breakroom, Handmade, Handmade Artisans, Handmade Holiday | 5 Comments »

2012 is Dead…… Long Live 2013….,, and Your Money!

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Ok……….. so it’s no great secret to those that know me or have read articles about me in various places, but I was, in my previous life in London, a self taught financial accountant. I worked for many years in the advertising industry and ran multi-million $ accounts. Yes, it was stressful and looking back, [...]

Tags: 2012, 2013, art, artisan, beads, craft, gemstones, handcrafted, Handmade Products, jewellery, jewelry, money, tax, write-offs

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Featured Artist Pam of A Bead Thing

Monday, September 24th, 2012

“If you have a teensy bit of creativity in you that wants to come out, open the valve and let it out.” A perfect quote for anyone that would love to tap into their creativity but just doesn’t know where to start from Pam who is a feisty grandmother that loves to create! Pam is [...]

Tags: abeadthing, beading, beads, bracelet, earrings, feature, featured artists, Handmade, Handmade Artists, handmade marketplace, jewelry, necklace

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Featured Artist HrtsMom

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012

There is something so special about belonging to a creative family! Everyone appreciating work that goes into handmade and encouraging a child to explore can truly lead to great things. Trina was blessed to be born into just such a family; with a mother who had a side business of decorating cakes as well as [...]

Tags: beads, bracelet, feature, featured artist, Handmade, hrtsmom, jewelry, metal, necklace, steampunk

Posted in Featured Vendor, Handmade Artisans | 10 Comments »

Amazing FHFteam Giveaway

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Hi there, my name is Jolene Wolfe and I am a lampwork bead maker. I have been a member of www.frithappens.co.uk, a UK based lampworking forum since 2007 and in 2009 I started a forum based Etsy Street Team called FHFteam . Each month we have a prize giveaway on our team blog and this month it [...]

Tags: art, artisan, beads, contest, fhfteam, glass, handcrafted, Handmade, Handmade Harbor

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New Two-holed seed bead – Twin

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Preciosa Ornela is presenting new seed bead called TWIN. The main difference is that TWIN has two holes which is unique and original on the market. There are more than 80 color finishes for infinite color combinations. Preciosa Ornela is part of the Preciosa Group, which is one of the worldp’s most significant producer of [...]

Tags: bead, bead weaving, beads, glass beads, Handmade Harbor, handmade jewelry, jewellery, jewelry, preciosa, preciosa ornela, seed beads

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Beading Excellence

Monday, August 15th, 2011

4 His Glory Creations by CJ Some people talk about creativity and passion, while others live it! Such is so true about CJ Bauschka who is the sole caregiver of her mother as well as wife and mother of eight children as well as Grammy to four grandchildren! She is passionate about her family and [...]

Tags: art, artisan, beaded, beading, beads, Creative Handmade Artisans, Handmade, Handmade Harbor, handmade jewelry

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Why I Knot Between the Beads

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Knotting between the beads is important for a variety of reasons. Bead stringing, properly speaking, is a form of rigging. Where a knot is placed, it strengthens the cord three-fold. Consequently, if cord with a tensile strength of 17lbs. The cord is strengthened to 51lbs.10lb-test becomes 30lbs, etc. Thus, it secures the beads. This is [...]

Tags: beaded, beading, beads, crafts, Creative Handmade Artisans, gemstones, jewellery, jewelry, knotting between beads

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Happy Birthday Buddha!

4 Reasons You Should Go to Gem and Bead Shows

Memories of Christmas Past-Part 3

2012 is Dead…… Long Live 2013….,, and Your Money!

Featured Artist Pam of A Bead Thing

Featured Artist HrtsMom

Amazing FHFteam Giveaway

New Two-holed seed bead – Twin

Beading Excellence

Why I Knot Between the Beads

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