Showing posts with label beadfest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beadfest. Show all posts

Monday, August 30, 2010

Beadfest 2010

I recently attended Beadfest in Philly and took classes with Susan Lenart Kazmar and Linda Larsen. Their company is Objects and Elements, of which i am a design team member. So i thought since they were in my hood, i'd take advantage of that and get in some classes with them. I took the classes with my friend, Leslie, who was kind enough to let me stay with her the whole time so that i didn't have to commute or pay for lodging. (thanks again!)




Susan's class was all about resin application and we used the much touted ICE resin. I just love this product. if you go over to the website, there are all kinds of tutorials and photos on projects done using ICE resin. you can also keep up with the blog to see projects done by all the design team members. for my first project, I embedded a butterfly (found right before class in the parking lot of WaWa!) into one of O&E's bezels. (whoops, i just realized that my bezel pics is upside down, but you get the idea. then we let them dry overnight before continuing on with other projects. i'm still finishing mine up, so i'll post pics later of the completed piece.








at lunch time we went downstairs to do some shopping! we ran into Suze and her husband, Lenny.
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then we ran into Jane and her daughter, Claudia

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

just checking in!


Dillon and i are back from our WONDERFUL trip to Maine to teach and attend "Art-in-the-rough". an absolutely AMAZING experience. i am going through my hundred plus photos and will be posting them soon. i am only home one day before i leave again for Philadelphia where i will be taking a few classes with my friend Leslie at Beadfest.

slide show!