JANUARY 2015 MEETING

It is time for our first meeting of 2015! Come out and enjoy the wonderful company of fellow beady people, shop with our fabulous vendors, check out the great books in our library and try your luck with a raffle ticket - .50 cents could bring you a wonderful prize!

Date and Time:

Saturday, January 17, 2014

10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Location:
750 Bering Dr.
Houston, TX 77057
1st Floor Conference Room (back of the Republic Bank Building by the parking garage)

Directions:
Driving South on 610 (towards the Galleria), take the Woodway/Memorial Dr. exit and make a right on Woodway (away from Memorial Park). Take Woodway for about about 1 to 1.5 miles to Bering Dr. and make a left (Bering is the next light after Chimney Rock). Then drive about one half mile to 750/800 Bering Dr. which is on your right. If you pass up Kelsey Seybold Clinic on Sugar Hill Road you just barely missed it.

Parking:
Please park in the parking garage (use driveway on the side of the bank building). You can park anywhere on the first floor (even "reserved" spaces, but if full then the second floor). The conference room entrance is just off from the garage.

January Program:
We are once again going to start the year working on bead squares for Breast Cancer research. The Bead-It-Forward project now has its own website. The bead quilts will still be auctioned off at the annual Bead and Button show in June but, the patterns and information are now located at www.bead-it-forward.com. 

This year’s theme is Wild About a Cure and the theme is animals. Please check out the website for the patterns and guidelines. There are also very helpful link tutorials. 

In the meantime, here are some patterns to help you get started.

Now go bead something - like a Bead Square to benefit breast cancer research!

Jewelry Techniques 101

This is a new year, so let's start off with some basic jewelry making/beading techniques. 

Here is a great graphic from Hobby Lobby of some of the basic materials that every one of us should be familiar with.

Photo by Hobby Lobby

But, the best is yet to come. Hobby Lobby has a pdf file that is chockful of techniques, explanations of materials, tools we should have and lots, lots more. 

Whether you are a novice jewelry maker or an advanced one, this file and this graphic is something you should all have in your studio.

Click HERE to get it now - you won't regret it.

Now go bead something.