Happy Birthday!

Another year has come and gone for our society, it's time to celebrate. You're all invited to the HDBS's Birthday Party this weekend! It should be a great fun, members will have a chance to win door prizes that include FOUR $50 gift certificates to Arizona Gem & Minerals in Prescott Valley. And as always we plan to have Birthday cake and other goodies. Hope you will all take time out of your busy schedules to join us.

Cynthia Rutledge Nov. 9-10-11

Cynthia Rutledge

November 9, 10, 11, 2007

http://www.cynthiarutledge.net/

Trunk Show

Saturday November 10, 2007

The trunk show will take the place of the regular HDBS meeting.

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The Tibetan Bangle Workshop

INSTRUCTOR: Cynthia Rutledge

DATE: Friday, November 9, 2007
TIME: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
COST: $50 members; $85 non-members
KIT PRICE: $65

Learn to create a wonderful bracelet that is constructed from a flat Peyote stitch base with a series of Brick stitch triangles that form four-sided pyramid shapes. The shapes can be filled with special beads of glass, semi-precious, pearl, or metal beads. The spaces in-between the pyramid shapes and along the long edges of the bangle are embellished with small beads and seed beads.

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Chantilly Lace Workshop

INSTRUCTOR: Cynthia Rutledge

DATE: Sunday, November 11, 2007
TIME: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
COST: $50 members; $85 non-members
KIT PRICE: $85

The focal points of this lovely necklace are delicate lace-like medallions.
They are composed of a graduating series of Herringbone medallions that are linked together with beaded chain. The center medallion supports a beaded drop that starts with a Brick stitch ladder then moves into Herringbone for the finishing edge. Two toggles link the last medallion to form a double closure.

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Seating is limited in these classes and available on a first come first serve basis.

Register as soon as possible to reserve your seat!

To register, please send your check made out to the
“High Desert Bead Society of Northern Arizona” to:



High Desert Bead Society of Northern Arizona
Attn: Dee Sybrandt
P.O. Box 28073
Prescott Valley, AZ 86312

July 21st- Kumihimo Demo by Bonnie Heidler

The High Desert Bead Society would like to welcome member and guest speaker Bonnie Heidler. Bonnie will be presenting a Kumihimo demonstration on Saturday July 21th at the HDBS meeting.

Creating things has been a life long passion for Bonnie. At age 7, she started doing crewel embroidery. She moved into knitting and knitted her first sweater at age 8.

In high school, Bonnie started needle pointing. She became very passionate about it and during college worked in a needlepoint store selling and teaching. For many, many years she created a lot of needlepoint pieces, designing some of her own.

Beads came into her life through her Mother. Her Mother was always into jewelry and found someone who was stringing semi-precious pieces. Bonnie bought a few and showed them to a friend of hers who was doing the same thing. She asked her to go to a bead show in Santa Monica, California, which is where Bonnie is from originally. Her friend said "Pick out anything you want and I‘ll make it for you." Bonnie later learned that she had gone to the Gem and Jewelry show, which is like a mini-Tucson. She didn’t become hooked, just overwhelmed.

Five years later, she moved to Colorado Springs and went into a bead store and became HOOKED. That was almost 12 years ago. In 1998, Bonnie opened her own bead store in Colorado Springs, called Bonnie’s Beads, Inc. After eight years in business, Bonnie closed the store in October, 2006 and moved to Prescott Valley.

She has been teaching basic stringing, beginning peyote, Japanese looming, and wire wrapping for the past eight years. She has studied Kumihimo, which is a Japanese braiding technique for several years and prefers using beads versus fibers.

To learn more about Kumihimo, try some of these great books:

Jacqui Carey:
Beginner's Guide to Braiding: The craft of Kumihimo

Karen DeSousa:
Necklaces Braided on the Kumihimo Disk

Jacqui Carey:
Creative Kumihimo

Jacqui Carey:
Beads and Braids

Programs July / August / September 2007

July 21- Kumihimo Demo by Bonnie Heidler.

August 18 - Open Beading. Bring a project and your beading supplies to bead along with the group.

September 15 - "How to promote your work", lecture by Rowena Tank. Visit Rowena's blog.

October 20 - Bead book presentation by Dr. Sandy Lynch from Sharlot Hall.

Newsletter ads

Advertise your bead related business or organization in the High Desert Bead Society bi-monthly newsletter! A link will also be placed on the HDBS website. Rates are as follows:

Business card 2.5” x 3” - $10 per issue

1/6 page layout 3.5” x 4” - $15 per issue

1/4 page layout 4” x 5” - $20 per issue

Contact info@HighDesertBeadSociety.org to place your ad.

May/June Newsletter

The May/June newsletter is now available.

Visit www.highdesertbeadsociety.org to print your copy!

May 19th- PMC Demo by Marian Ward

The High Desert Bead Society would like to welcome guest speaker Marian Ward. Marian will be presenting an hour long Precious Metal Clay (PMC) demonstration on Saturday May 19th at the HDBS meeting.

Jewelry artist Marian Ward moved from New York to Sedona, Arizona in 2001. Although jewelry has always been a passion for her, Marian did not start working on her jewelry designs full time until she was surrounded by Sedona’s beautiful red rocks. In her work, Marian uses a range of precious metals – gold, fine silver and sterling. Most of her pieces also incorporate gemstones.

Marian’s jewelry is currently in the Sedona Arts Center Gallery and Gallery 527 in Jerome, Arizona. Her jewelry is in private collections around the world.

To learn more about PMC, consider the following books:

Irena Miech:
Metal Clay for Beaders

Irena Miech:
More Metal Clay for Beaders

CeCe Wire:
Creative Metal Clay Jewelry

Metal Clay Magic by Nana V. Mizushima

The Art of Metal Clay by Sherri Haab

Working with Precious Metal Clay by Tim McCreight

Programs April / May / June 2007

April 21st-Guest Speaker Donna Wilcox and Bead Bazaar.

May 19th-PMC (Precious Metal clay) Demo by Marian Ward.

June 16th-Open Beading, Pot Luck and Beaded Bookmark Swap.

2007 Bead Store Discounts

The following bead stores offer discounts to HDBS members. Membership card is required to receive the discount.

(20%) A2Z Beads - 4239 W. Thunderbird Rd. Phoenix, AZ

(20%) Arizona Gem & Minerals-6370 E Hwy 69 Prescott Valley, AZ

(20%) Bead It!-152 S. Montezuma, Prescott, AZ

(20%) Beads Galore- 3320 S. Priest Drive Suite #3, Tempe, AZ (New location!)

(10%) The Bead Garden of Sedona - 3150 W. HWY 89A Ste D, Sedona, AZ

(20%) The Bead Museum - 5754 W. Glenn Drive, Glendale, AZ

(20%) Bead World - 6064 N. 16th St. Phoenix, AZ

(20%) Cosmopolitan Beads - 6061 E. Cave Creek Rd. #1, Cave Creek, AZ

(10%) Creative Destination - 1660 S. Alma School Rd. Ste. 108, Mesa AZ

(20%) D&I Beads-7420 W. Cactus Rd. - B12, Peoria, AZ

(15%) Gems Beadbar & More - 1290 N. Scottsdale Rd. #104 , Tempe, AZ

(20%) Isabella Beads - 3170 W. Carefree Hwy, Suite C7 , Phoenix, AZ

(10%) Rowena Tank, Lampwork Bead Maker and Jewelry designer www.rowenaart.net

(10%) Trade Wind Gallery-4814 North 14th Place, Phoenix, Arizona

(10%) Wildflower - Prescott, AZ

(10%) UzzaKing Beads - Ebay Store


More stores are being added every month! For an updated listing of Bead Store discounts visit our website!

Chinese Knotting

The High Desert Bead Society would like to thank Linda Orescanin from Cosmopolitan Beads for sharing her knowledge of Chinese Knotting techniques with us at the September meeting! Linda also recommended the following books for those of you that would like to learn more:

Suzen Millodot: Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellery

Suzen Millodot: Celtic Knots for Beaded Jewellery

Joan Babcock: Micro-Macrame Jewelry

Harvest Basket Workshop with Jill Cremer

Jill Cremer has been teaching beadwork for the past eight years. She has taught at the Bead Museum in Glendale AZ, the Bead and Button Show, as well as across the United States. Her work has won several national competitions, including the 2000 Miyuki Delica Challenge, where Jill took 1st Place Sculpture with "Elvis, in the guise of a phoenix, rises from the ashes".

Jill will be teaching her Harvest Basket necklace two day workshop Saturday October 28 and Sunday October 29, 2006, 10am-4pm. Registration is now open for this class. For more information contact Paulette Smith at Paulette@highdesertbeadsociety.org .

Programs August / September / October 2006

August 26th - Christy Puetz, Bead Museum Educator will speak. We will also be beading today, so don't forget to bring a project!

September 16th - Chinese Knotting speaker from Cosmopolitan Beads.

October 21st- Field Trip to the Bead Museum. We will not be meeting today. Members need to make car pool arrangements to meet at the Bead Museum.