In 26 years of making my living as a bead artist, author and teacher, the subject of copycats has reared its head several times. I guess SOP...

On Jan. 11th, my brother's first solo show opened at the LaConner Quilt Museum ... 43 beaded quilts.... 10 years of work by Thom Atkins...

Where to start? I guess the heart says it all. Liz and I met in 1973, when we both lived on a houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle. Best frien...

Can you guess the subject of this piece? I guess the title will have to be Me & The Book ! Maybe a little "refresher" about ho...

Above is a detail picture from my July BJP. I'm "journaling" this year about how I intersect with important people, places and...

Anybody out there recognize this bead... how old? where made? (Click to enlarge!) Answers revealed at end of this post. Here's what I kn...

I've shown Janet Dann's exquisitely detailed bead embroidery on an earlier post, here . As you can see in the picture above, she ...

Although I come from a family of gardeners, the urge to play with growing green things never (ever!) appealed to me. My parents said I have...

Too many piles? Too much stuff? Most of us, after we’ve lived in the same place for a number of years, begin to accumulate a few too many th...

If you read my April 1st post about Mom , you know she passed away at age 94 this year in March. I began working on my April BJP while I was...

Living on an island with no access to fully stocked bead shops within 100 miles can be a bummer, especially when I need something for a time...

When you look at this detail picture and the whole piece below, what do you think it's about? Like all of my BJP pieces this year, the ...

It's been about 5 years since I participated in the San Juan Island Artists Studio Tour as a guest artist in Ev Tuller's weaving st...