Where'd the School Year Go?

Seems like I just submitted my proposals to teach at the 2010 Bead&Button Show (actually, that was last July -- time flies) and now the Show's almost here! I'm kidding, really. (Thank goodness that June is several months away and the boys' school year has three more quarters to go -- plenty of time to raise those first-quarter grades!) The good news is that Marlene and crew at Kalmbach Publishing Company have recently announced the classes and workshops we teachers will be offering.

I am super-psyched to present four iron wire classes and one surprise! I get to teach a three-day Fundamentals in Resin workshop early in the week! Look for the complete catalog late this month and sign up in January!

Here's my roster:

Maniacal Jewelry Pound
A three-hour wacky and wonderfully loud pounding of iron wire: a great chance to try the medium in a shorter time-frame.

Found and Captured

Create custom captures (bails) for all your fabulous cabochons and found objects.

Create Your Style with Swarovski Elements presents Winterfrost Pod

A beautiful combination of iron wire and flashy crystal.

All plain-loops! Simple-dimple!

A Pound(ed) Heart

Try your hand (and hammer) at forging 12 gauge iron wire. Grrrr!

Fundamentals in Resin by Brenda Schweder

A three-day intensive play-date where

 you discover and/or re-explore resin, resin, resin!

Steel Magnolia Anyone?

Will you be visiting Tucson this coming February for the "Big Bead Shoe" (my knickname for The Tucson Gem and Jewelry Show)? Would you like to try your hand -- your hammer-holding hand? -- at combining steel wire and glimmering Swarovski Crystallized Components in a beautiful petal necklace?

Join me and a team of Swarovski's talented guest teachers at the crystal magnate's new downtown Tucson venue to take part in my Steel Magnolia Necklace workshop. (I'll take a break from soaking up the Arizona sun just long enough to play together -- it's mid-winter Vitamin B(ead) and D therapy!) (Thanks Helen for the use of Vitamin B(ead).)

Check out this link for a detailed description of my class (pps. 6 and 19) and my peers' beautiful crystal jewelry versions. YUMM-E! (Sorry Rachel Rae!)

http://www.create-your-style.com/website.php%20id=/events_fairs/events/Tucson_Show_2009.htm

And if you need an extended crystal fix, be sure to take my friend, Deb Simon's, class working filigee and flat back crystals (pssst! her book Crystal Chic will be out in December!).

BTW, if you do end up coming out, give me a head's up -- we'll do lunch! (Have your girl call my girl ... my Steel Magnolia girl!)