I’ll be the very first to admit that I’m not very good at making “wire” based jewelry. Most of my jewelry is beads strung on wire or earring hooks. The most complex wire manipulation I have accomplished is …

While I do often visit the “beading superstores” online, I sometimes like to go poking around the lesser-known online stores looking for something a little different.

Here are a few of the really unique and “out of the ordinary” bead site …

by: Felicity Walker

What do you think the earliest recorded use of beads is – is your first thought perhaps beadwork created by the Egyptians? Yes, there certainly were a lot of beaded items in Egyptian times, but beadwork has been …