UK Beaders

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Bobby

Moonchild

The inspiration for this piece came from a necklacedesigned by Cindy Cohn and featured in a recent Bead & Buttonspecial. I loved the way she had reversed the direction of the cellinispiral midway and just had to have a go at it. I decided to do it in myfavourite shades of black and grey, adding a ...

caraj316

I started beading within the last year, andhaving been complimented on my pieces decided to turn it into a homebusiness so I could stay as a Stay-at-home-mum. I have excellentdressmaking skills so am pleased to be able to...

 darm

Helloooo,

Thank you so much for voting for me I am sooooo pleased and completely surprised. I have very rarely shown my jewellery to people and never entered anything before so I am over the moon. Thank you. I have recently been making j...

I began silversmithing in 2005 - two years later, our local college stopped doing courses, and I was stuck for a creative pursuit. I started lampworking after a trip to Venice, and about one year in, began to specialise of sculptural gl...

Moonchild

My name is Liz and I was really surprised to win this challenge as Ialso won the March/April challenge! You can read more about me in thatpost so I thought I would write ...

Unfortunately it is my very sad duty to tell you that Gill was killed in a road traffic accident last Sunday (14/06/09), whilst on holiday in Germany. Sadly she did not know tha...

Hi, I'm Liz and myCottage Garden bracelet was the result of working my way through "TheBeader's Floral" by Jill Devon and Liz Thornton, a beautiful book onbeadwoven flowers. As usual I didn't have a plan when I started, justthat I wanted to learn how to create these wo...

Andrea

I began making jewellery about 18 months ago.When I was 14 I had my ears pierced but had problems wearing earrings.I put up with sore ears for the next 10 years or so and then juststopped wearing them altogether. Many (many, many) moons later I wentinto Bead Monster in Otley where I discov...

Carrie Potter

Inspired by "Falling Leaves" by Adeline Yen Mah

I started threading beads about 20 months ago, after seeing photos of beautiful work by an internet friend....and fatally, some b...

princess pink

I started beading and jewellery making about 5 years ago when I got bored one summer. I've always been fairly arty but never found one thing to keep me interested, I kinda flitted from one craft to the next, that is until I found jewellery making! ...

Ciel

Carmie

Although you all know me as Carmie on the forum, my real name is Valentina (Val) Moon . Born in Poona, India, I moved to the north east of England when I ...

My name is Sam and I have been making jewellery since Autumn 2006. I have to say that it has been one of the most inspiring and exciting crafts that I have undertaken because there are so many different skills and techniques to master. I am also fascinated by beauti...

My name is Liz and I'm a self-taught beader living in Monmouthshire, South Wales. I first started using beads in my cross stitching many years ago and it gradually progressed from there. The company I stitched samples for once sent me some  bracel...