Have you ever gone to a bead show or wished you could go to a bead show? I
had a lot of fun last weekend, October 21st, and spent a few hours at
the Bead Affaire bead show in Watertown, Massachusetts. In the video I'll show you
several of the tables that I really enjoyed shopping at and I'll also show
you all the goodies that I bought. So first of all my apology is for it not
occurring to me to actually turn my phone sideways when I recorded. Oh well.
This table is full of some of the most gorgeous lampwork beads, There's some
dichroic glass, these are big honking lampwork focals. She wanted me to show
you her dragon here, and just some absolutely beautiful pieces. Right at the
beginning those were pen blanks that you can buy and then slide on whatever
beads you want onto the pen. This is when you walk into the main part of the show,
you can see it's just a big huge space. This is the Armenian Center actually in
Watertown, Mass, and you can see just trays and trays of beads and findings. It
can be overwhelming; it's good to go with a plan and kind of have an idea of what
it is you want to focus on getting because you could easily go crazy and
end up not getting what you want and getting a lot of what you don't really
need. It's fun when they have some of their beads made up into samples to show
you how they can be used although my favorites really are the trays of beads
and one the wonderful thing that you can do at a bead show that you can't do
shopping online is run your fingers, just sift and sort through these
beads and stones and pendants. Those are fun all Halloween beads, cute little
charms, like I said it can be dizzying so it's good to have an idea of just what
it is that you want. This is a lamp worker she's got some finished pieces
along with some bead weaving, gorgeous lamp work beads. So the husband does the
chain mail and the wife does the beads, I asked and they they kind of collaborate
on designs. So he made the chain mail and then asked her to make a bead that went
with it on that big one that you saw. This guy designs... look at that, it lights
up. He designed a solar-powered clasp that just sits in the windowsill during
the day and then when you wear your necklace out at night it lights up. Is
that not the coolest thing ever? You can see that the beads are lit up
from the inside. I wasn't able to purchase anything here. I seriously
thought about it. This lady, Earth Sea Glass, everything on her table or just
about everything has a beach theme or a sea or ocean, most everything, alright
there's some Christmas, there's little fish dishes that you can dig through and
get some 50-cent beads. So she's got finished pieces, there she is, and she's
got beads that you can buy. A really nice display, I love her little pier and the
sand that the things are sitting on. Lots of folks have some really creative ways
of displaying their wares, it just makes it fun to shop and look and I especially
enjoyed talking to the artists. This table is called Funky Stuff, they have
loads of things: chips and beads and look at the size of those beads
and those necklaces, oh my goodness, crazy! Lots of gemstones shell beads, just really
nice, nice quality things like they had a strand of lapis lazuli I don't know if
it's in this video, it was $90. Remember, if you remember my video on howlite
and the imitations. That tells you that that strand was likely true
lapis lazuli and not an imitation. And just tables full of these strands and
you just want to run your fingers through all of them. You see those little
white baskets? When you go up to a table and you're standing there looking for
more than a couple of minutes they hand you a basket or it might be something
different at a different table... or a tray, but the idea is that you fill it up!
Makes it convenient for shopping and you have these little baskets that you see
something you like you put it in. Silver in Style: they have loads of beads and
lots of findings in all different metals not just silver. You can see brass,
there's copper, oh yes, beach glass, sea glass, dichroic, chains that you can buy
by the foot. I think last time I went I bought a lot of chain. but I didn't this
time. All sorts of findings, there's some copper,
don't you just want to run your hands through them all and dig through them
all? Buy one of each! It can be overwhelming. You know, I meant to get
some of those big hole gemstone beads, I'm not sure why I didn't, I think I got
distracted with the recording. Oh well, it's not like I didn't get enough. So
here are the goodies that I got at the bead show. First of all I didn't just go
to the bead show to buy things but I also was taking opportunities to hand
out my new business card which I don't think I've shown you yet.
I finally got new business cards with branding that matches my website and all
of my site's branding and I'm quite pleased with them. On the back there's
all of my social media information and I think the front design came out pretty
nice. It's nice and simple and clean I paid a little bit extra to get spot gloss,
it's just on the artwork and I think this artwork is a pretty good
representation of what I do: sculpting, polymer clay jewelry and all kinds of
crafts. This is one of my most popular projects actually, the resin one, so
there's that and I was able to hand out a handful of these and hopefully people
will check out the site. If you got my card and came to this video from the
Watertown bead show let me know in the comments and say hello. It was so nice to
meet everybody there. The very first thing I bought was a bunch of magazines.
Bangkok beads was actually having a clearance, they were getting rid of stuff,
closeout sales and they had magazines for a dollar and so I think I bought
three of their one dollar magazines. They're older 2006, gosh 11 years old,
2006, but you know you can always still get good ideas and color ideas. These are
gorgeous colors and so I just grabbed a few. I also wanted a bag. When I went to
the show I did not bring my purse. I had everything in my pockets. In
the previous year when I went my credit card was compromised so I had all cash.
So I had some of my cash in a back pocket, some in the front pocket, some in
my bra, so that if somebody robbed me- because these places are, let's
face it, they are prime places for pickpockets: you're busy, you're
distracted. So I figured if somebody pickpocketed me they wouldn't get
everything, but fortunately that didn't happen. And then the Bead Designer
International, the folks who are sponsoring the show, actually had a table
of some really old 1996 and 97, 20 year old magazines, but isn't that beautiful?
Yeah, I don't have a problem with older magazines, there's always good
information in there, these techniques aren't really going to be outdated, so
these are fun to flip through, get ideas.I just like to look at magazines. All right
now that we have a little space here I can show you a bit more. Let's see, oh,
this was I was starting to say, Splendid Loon Studio and it was just absolutely
gorgeous the array of these iridescent looking beads they just had them in a
rainbow of colors and they were priced very wisely.
They were priced so if you bought 20 beads it was up to 20 beads it was 75
cents each, 21 to something was 70 cents each and so on, and if you count there
are 21 beads here but I thought these was so pretty I just pulled out I think
three different shades that she had and I really didn't even count except I did
make sure to get plenty of these so I could probably make a pair of earrings
with a couple of these and I just liked the different sizes. I thought it would
make a lovely necklace and so after I picked out all of these then I went over
to her focals and got this and now these are ceramic
beads. Yep that was $15. Have to read that later but this is
their little card and insert which is kind of cool,
Splendid Loon Studio and they just have a nice it',s a beautiful thing about
going to a bead show is that you can actually, you can touch these, you can run
your hands through them, you can pick through the bins and get just the ones
you want. So I'm really looking forward to making necklace, bracelet, earrings,
maybe all of the above, maybe just a couple, out of these beads. The next table
I purchased from was Ancient Moon Beads. You saw some of their selection in the
video and I just love these metal beads I use these all the time these kind of
faceted cube brass beads although I don't know what they are, they are not
solid brass, they're actually lighter and I know they knew they weren't brass like
the other ones I bought, they must be over something because I can just tell
by the weight that they're not as heavy as a strand of brass beads b,ut these are
just great filler. I got the brassy ones and the kind of coppery ones, they're
great fillers and spacer beads, they just add some interest without taking over
the show. And I've also had it in mind to do some projects where we use Ranger
patinas and Dye Oxides and other things to color metal pieces. I picked up a few
metal pieces. I thought these might make a really interesting necklace all
attached together with the flowers and the leaves colored with patinas and then
this one looked like it would be a lot of fun to add different colors to and
all sorts of mediums as I've shown I've shown you. a lot of different things.
alcohol inks. And if you want to know I'll tell you, these were two dollars
each this was $3 each and these
were four dollars each. Yeah, that tells me they're definitely not brass. In fact I
didn't even look at the brass beads like that because they have gone so sky high since
the first time I bought a strand of brass beads. Oh and this guy ,I saved his
card because I may yet buy some of his stuff. I showed you this in the video the
Anglerfish with the solar clasp that makes your
beads glow, it's just the coolest idea ever. It's one of the things I kind of
regret not buying, but I really didn't have enough money to spend on it that
day. This lady, Earth Sea Glass, she is a
lamp worker and I showed you some things from her table and everything is sea
themed and so I've kind of picked through I pulled out a bunch of flat
beads because I thought these would be pretty to make a bracelet. I really like...
I didn't even realize that ones pressed in a mold, it's got a little swirly, that's cool. I
really like flat beads for a bracelet instead of a lumpy round. I just think
they're so much more comfortable and then this one I call it her Finding Nemo
bead. Doesn't it make you think of Finding Nemo?
I just really liked it, it's a little bit wonky which is why it was only ten
dollars, there's a lot of glass, this is heavy, but I'll do something with it.
And that was a theme that was everywhere I went,
the artists were telling me they had forgotten something. She had these little
beads in, separated by color in boxes and they were at like 50 cents each and she
had these wonderful little shell dishes that her husband had bought for her just
for people to sort things into and they were on the kitchen counter. Another
artist told me her brand-new business cards were all in the kitchen counter.
Things like that. It happens to all of us. Oh, these were fun. That table called
Funky Stuff, the one with the great big huge necklaces, so I got some chips. I
just thought this is the prettiest color, those were $4.
They were three for $10 but I honestly could not find two others that I really
liked and I have a fair amount of chips. These I thought were really pretty. These are carnelian. These were...
all of their beads were, I don't know it it's a gimmick, they were marked, they were half of the marked price, so they were marked
$12 and the strand was $6. And tiger eye, I love tiger eye, I have tons of it in all
different shapes and I don't use it often enough, but I always go for it when
I see it and I love this different shape I just thought it was kind of
interesting. Tthese are $6 also and then this is
serpentine. I've made other things, I made a leafy green serpentine necklace with
big round pale green serpentine beads and I like these so much better. I'm
definitely more into kind of the chartreusey green that these are. And
then this is from EOS Designs, they have a shop in Marblehead, Mass, which is north
of Boston which is a bit of a hike for me, but it was nice they included a
coupon that you could use in the shop. And I got a bunch of things and they
also had clever pricing: buy four of these get one free, buy five get one free,
so naturally I had to buy however many it was. These I thought were really
pretty, I got them in gold and silver, they're clasps and you can hardly even
tell it's a clasp, this is something you could, there is goes,
you could put towards the front of the design or make it part of your focal
design. What I like about these is you can actually open them up and do things
with them so there's lots of possibilities for different things. You
wouldn't want to keep doing that repeatedly because then you'll weaken
your metal and break it. Bead caps, cord ends, all kinds of possibilities for
those. These just have an interesting feel to them, and these are just nice
antique gold color, and I got a bunch of charms. Oh, I knew I had some honkin' ones.
I don't know what I'm gonna do with those, it would be fun to put some kumihimo in
there, I don't know, they're just interesting. And then I got these
tweezers. So actually I plan to use them more for polymer clay. I've been looking
for a pair of tweezers that I can make come together parallel. So not like this,
but more like this, and I can use them for actually shaping doll fingers.
That you could press them this way, because if you look at your fingers, your
fingers are actually not round, they're oval, you know, it's wider that way. Then
that way so you can use something like a pair of tweezers for little tiny fingers.
So I will probably adjust these and bend them, one of them, or both of them, out
just a tiny bit so that they come together more parallel. So that was from
EOS Designs. And then I promised myself that I would get one luxury thing if
they were something I liked that was just kind of self-indulgent that I would
do that. And this is made by Seana Bettencourt, the
Polymer Garden. So she's a polymer clay artist and she made this. Isn't that
beautiful? It's a pendant but it could be worn as a pin, you just slide a pin back
through there, and see the beautiful finish on the back? That's the sign of a
true artist, she finished it well. It's got a nice
texture, even the bail piece is nicely done, she's got a little signature piece
back there and it's just beautiful. So yeah, I could look at this and say, "Well, I
could do that," and I could, but it isn't my style really it's just not what I do
and I think it's important if I can, when I'm able to (something got spilled on there) I'm not
always able to, but if I'm able to, to support other artists and I just love
this. I love green and purple and I'm looking forward to stringing this with
maybe some silk ribbon and I'm picturing maybe doing some danglies underneath it,
we'll see. And, yes, it was $38. And besides my gas and my Reuben that I bought
myself for lunch that is what I got at the bead show. So I hope you enjoyed the
little bit of a video and tour of the bead show and what I got and be watching
for a lot of these findings coming up in future videos. Happy creating!
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