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		<title>Blog carnival &#8211; reworked piece of jewelry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every month some of the jewelry artists belonging to the Jewelry Artisans Network get together and blog on the same topic. This month, our task was to take a piece of jewelry and rework it. As soon as the topic was announced I knew exactly which piece I wanted to give a makeover. Last fall, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=514&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New technique revealed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every month our street team posts in a blog carnival.  The forum we gathered at had to be moved, so the team has been on hiatus until the new forum is organized.  However, several of us missed the blog carnival, so we are reviving it for 2012.  This month, the question is, what new technique [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=407&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sad face :-(</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the end of an era.  My local bead shop, Theodora&#8217;s Beautiful Beads, closed its doors for good.  I made the penultimate purchase; the final purchase was made by the store manager. I have been lending a hand at the store for over 10 years, first in its original location when Thea still owned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=406&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Treasure Chest of Components</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What beader wouldn&#8217;t get excited at the words &#8220;treasure chest&#8221;?  Put it together with components, and I was hooked.  I&#8217;m always looking for new bits and pieces to include in my jewelry, and this sounded simply delicious! This is the second in a series of posts about Beadfest Philadelphia in August.  This post and the next will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=307&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Carnival &#8211; work mat chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each month some of the members of the Starving Artist Etsy street team blog on the same topic.  This month we were asked to talk about what&#8217;s on our work mat. My creative process, if you can call it that, includes planning multiple projects at the same time.  I developed this habit early on in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=315&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pack heavy or pack light?</title>
		<link>http://beadsophisticate.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/pack-heavy-or-pack-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I interrupt my coverage of Beadfest Philadelphia for a blog carnival enty. Every month some of the members of the Starving Artist Etsy/Artfire Street Team write about the same topic on their blog.  This month was more of a question:  what jewelry-related items do you take when you travel? Packing was very much on my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=275&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beadfest Philadelphia &#8211; a review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year for the past six years, I have gathered up what feels like half my tools and headed north to Beadfest Philadelphia.  I always sign up for a few classes (hence the tools).  This year I took a class called &#8220;Treasure Chest of Components&#8221; with Debora Mauser and a torch enameling class with Steven James.  Each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=283&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuff blank challenge &#8211; how it came out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I promised to show the finished cuff blanks from the Rings and Things blog partner challenge, and here they are.  I was pretty pleased with the results, considering that it was my first try. With regard to the blanks themselves, the copper blanks were easier to work with. I was able to bend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=267&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuff blank challenge</title>
		<link>http://beadsophisticate.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/cuff-blank-challenge-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have mentioned before that I am a Rings-N-Things blog partner.  Every so often they will host a challenge and select a few blog partners to try out an item they sell. Last month I was one of the lucky chosen, and they sent me a selection of their brand new cuff blanks to play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=241&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Name that piece &#8211; July Blog Carnival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month the members of the Starving Artist Street Team are talking about whether we name our pieces or not. We all know that naming our pieces gives a cachet that buyers love.  I&#8217;ve tried, I really have.  But the problem for me is that although I am quite creative in my work (beading, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beadsophisticate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7643310&amp;post=209&amp;subd=beadsophisticate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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