I've been thinking about jewelry-making lately. Not silversmithing, metal clay or fused-glass jewelry. Nothing that requires kilns or torches, drills or bits, stamps or blades. No goggles or fire ...

Happiness according to Binky Ilusorio is time spent in her room, stringing beads and turning them into beautiful pieces that spell double happiness for her. Double Happiness is Binky’s collection of ...

ON the long, lovely necks of ramp models, sewn onto chic evening bags and worked into intricate needlepoint designs, beads are back. Actually, they never went away. But they have been making a big ...

It was about 18 years ago when Debi Larson, then a stay-at-home mom, sent for a bead loom she had seen advertised on TV. Since then, she has become so good at making things with beads, primarily ...