Lately I'm working more and more with the SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS Pearl Beads I find them more delicate and gentel then before.  so... i took Pearls, Seed Beads in 3 sizes and started making new pattern for earings  but then i thought why not to make from them necklace too? - so I did but it is still in work   so for now you can see the new earings i made...
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Well, the suitcase is almost packed, and I'll be heading out to the Bead & Button show in Milwaukee for my very first time in just a few hours.  I've been remembering my first major bead show....about 6 years ago now, when I went to Tucson for the first time and I took my first 2 classes. 
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