This is the book I bought myself a couple days ago. I was once very in to beading, I have a whole fishing tackle box full of seedbeads to prove it.
We’ve had three copies of this book in the store since I started 3 months ago, and no one (except me now) has bought a copy. I’m starting to wonder about this city, because we’ve had 10 copies of Craftivity just sitting there, and I’m the only one to have bought that, but I digress.

I thought I was over beading and jewelry, I really did. But then I looked in this book. Maybe I like it because it doesn’t use those teeny-tiny demon beads. There are two projects that convinced me to get the book:

They are called ‘Little Yellow’ and ‘Green Goddess’. I’ll let you figure out which is which.
The yellow one I find is just such an inspiration. It’s so simple, making a loop for a big bead to go through as a decorative closure. I can just imagine it in so many different styles and colours.
The green one is just fun and exciting. It was this book, and especially this necklace that made me finally see the point in those crimp beads.

The book overall is very well photographed, the are clear photos of everything, and some fun photos of all the bits for a piece in a nice divided tray (I’m a sucker for those) before making it up.

The instructions are clear, and have fun little schematic drawings. I scanned part of one, so you can see the style (but not make the project for free!)

(the teardrop thing is a blob of glue! So cute!)

This book is getting me so enthused about jewelry-making, I can’t wait until I have some time (and supplies) to really sit down and play.

The projects are simple, yet stunning, and as I have said over and over: Inspirational.

I leave you with a few more projects I like.

(anyone know where I can get buttons like that?)

ISBN: 0307345726 (bring this in, your booksellers will love you!)