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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I love the new large-holed SWARVSKI ELEMENTS Beads! Here's a new design featuring the large holed Bead Art. 5900 in Crystal Red Magma, combined with the designer series Ginko Pendant Art. 6900 in Smoky Topaz.  The base of the necklace is freeform sculpted using 22 gauge wire covered in 2.5mm chocolate-colored WireLace. Over the WireLace is a 32 gauge smokey quartz wire. Are you interested in learning the technqiues for making this?
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I love this new color - fern green- Xilion Pendant 6428, give me a spring feeling, very bright, work with my Contemporary style wire design, Hope people like it.
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Embracing the Elephant Trying to grasp all the application possibilities for CRYSTALLIZEDTM - Swarovski Elements is like trying to hug an elephant around its girth - you might be able to embrace it but it's much too large to fully achieve.
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