Barbara on June 4th, 2010

Today was the last day of school and, as usual, I was scurrying around the craft room making gifts for the teachers.  Also per usual, I was out of suitably sized gift bags in which to package the teacher goodies, so off to JoAnn I went!  Naturally, I headed over to the paper gift supplies, [...]

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Barbara on June 24th, 2008

Elaine Beads – Finished Project Originally uploaded by penguintrax I’m pleased to announce my project, Elaine’s Beads, is in the August issue of PolymerCAFE magazine. Congratulations to my friends, Elizabeth Bonura and Marla Frankenberg on their articles in the same issue!

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Barbara on June 3rd, 2007

Lazy Woman’s Mokume Gane (LWMG) © 2007-2009, Barbara Forbes-Lyons A couple of years ago I was fortunate to take Nan Roche’s Extruded Mosaic class at the Bead and Button show. Ever since then, I’ve had a lot of fun using and experimenting with the technique. This tutorial uses Nan’s extrusion method in a new way [...]

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