Beads Glorious Beads!

Detail of beaded necklace

The Bead and Button show is back in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 29-June 10, 2013.  This is a show I look forward to every year, and so I thought I would share some eye candy images with you from previous shows.

Handcrafted sets of lampwork glass beads

The show features hundreds of vendors selling millions of beads.

Stone beads

Beads of metal, glass, amber, stone, and just about every other material you can make a bead from can be found at the show.

Silver colored metal beads

There is an incredible variety of bead shapes, colors and size.

Handmade glass beads by Sharon Peters

The selection could be overwhelming, but I am up to the challenge.

Ammonite beads

There are exhibits of beadwork and beads by leading artists, amateur and professional.

Wisteria necklace

The exhibits include necklaces...

Butterfly detail in beaded creation

... jewelry, and fantasy creations as well as individual beads.

Beaded collage

There are bargains from $1 a strand to individual beads over $100, so I pace myself each year, and try to help the economy out.

Bargain hunting at the Bead and Button Show

The Bead and Button show is billed at the largest consumer bead show in the world, and I love it that the show is here in my city each year.


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Faith Grace: Pearls and Lace Thur 138 (Entry 21)
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Butterfly Bling

I have a minor addiction to costume jewelry, and therefore a small collection. I started my collection when I was in High School, and so now I have a handful of "vintage signed designer pieces" that are actually worth quite a bit more then I paid for them. $5 -> $50! (In light of how investments in the stock market are going, I haven't done to badly with my costume jewelry, which has the added benefit of making me smile at all my bling.) I don't wear the costume jewelry, most of it is way too gaudy, but I display some of pieces in a shadow box on my wall.

My children used to ask me all the time if we were rich and if they were "real diamonds". I think they still hold out hope that some of the pieces actually have "real" diamonds, and I just don't know it. (Don't I wish) They want me to take the case to Antique Roadshow. My children were probably some of the few first graders who knew rubies are red, emeralds are green...

I thought I would share this vintage green butterfly pin to celebrate St. Patricks Day, and I thought it might look nice against this little plate that I have. The plate was "made Expressly for Niemen Marcus", and I got them at a rummage sale a long time ago. I got 4 such plates, if they originally had cups I never saw them.

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