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A fun article about some friends getting together on a sunny Sunday afternoon to hang out and BEAD! Features some reviews of bead shops in the San Fran area. www.sfist.com

A new beading site is getting ready to launch this spring. Beading Daily is beign pitched as a community site for beaders. It will feature blogs, free bead projects, newsletters and more. You can visit the preview site now. This should be an interesting offering from Interweave Press.

Visit Beading Times for a step-by-step earring project by Tammy Powely. Tammy can be seen blogging about jewelry and beads on numerous sites.

A leading online source for jewelry making and wholesale beads, Gemmall.com, is celebrating four successful years in business. Customers are being invited to share in the celebration by enjoying a 10% discount through the end of February.

Gemmall has gained its place in the market thanks to two main features – first, the incredible breadth, volume and choice in the range of precious and semi-precious stones and wholesale beads it has to offer; and second, the low price at which it is able to make these products available. Worth a browse.

safety pin security
I often misplace my crimp beads or mistakenly use them instead of small metal beads. To identify them more easily, I thread them onto a safety pin. I can always find the safety pin.
- Kasey Ford, West Hills, CA
See 4 more reader tips from the March 2007 issue of BeadStyle Magazine.

Anyone go to the big Tucson gem and bead show? Well if you are lucky enough to be there or just want to see what you are missing here is the online guide for the show. Tucson Show Guide.

Interweave Press, one of the nation’s leading craft media companies with businesses in magazine and book publishing, interactive media, broadcast programming, and events for craft enthusiasts, announced it will be increasing the publishing frequency of Stringing magazine to a quarterly subscription-based publication, beginning with the Spring 2007 issue, on newsstands February 27.
StringingMagazine.com

Show off core beads in this unusual twist on spiral rope. Enjoy this downloadable project from Bead&Button Magazine.