Bead Blogger Updates & Offer to Be Featured HERE!

Would you believe Sunday has rolled around again?!! Okay, I know 7 days and all that, but it sure feels like the last 2 days FLEW by!

The great thing about Sunday, however, is that it is time to share lots of inspiration and fun from fellow bead bloggers, yay!

Below you will find lots of great links about rubber glass, the Bead Star Competition, jewelry classes, bead retreats, clay and more!

And, if you scroll to the end of this blog post, I am offering Friday Feature spots to anyone who is interested in being featured here.

Enjoy and have a great new week!

Barbe Saint John - New Jewelry from Forgotten Artifacts Take a jewelry class with me at CREATE!

About.com Jewelry Making Tammy recently took a trip to the Bahamas and discovered some souvenir pennies in her purse. They were so bright and shiny they had to be turned into jewelry.

Art Bead Scene It's the fifth month anniversary of the ABS Carnival Blog! Come see how we've grown!

Beading Arts The new Rubber Glass silicone has inspired Cyndi to create some beginner projects!

Carmi's Art/Life World In an effort to use all that she buys, Carmi repairs and recycles vintage metal from Paris.

Cindy Gimbrone aka The Lampwork Diva Cindy's starting a new feature on her blog - The Wednesday Wire! Come take a look!

Strands of Beads Like several of her esteemed colleagues, Melissa has a few pieces in the Bead Star competition to show off this week!

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton Andrew has six finalists pieces in the Bead Star competition. Please take a moment to vote!

missficklemedia.com Vote for your Bead Star Favorites!

Earthenwood Studio Chronicles A gift from a local potter starts Melanie on a new clay adventure: Raku!

Humblebeads Heather explores 23 days of inspiration as she gets ready for the Bead & Button Show. See how Van Gogh has inspired her through the years.

Jean Campbell Jean's just full of travelogues, isn't she? This time she went to a Kansas bead retreat.

Lorelei's Blog: Inside the Studio Voting has now opened in the Bead Star competition, come check out my 5 entries!

Snap out of it, Jean! There's beading to be done! The best wedding I never went to! My editor's incredibly romantic wedding -- Australian Beading Magazine

Want to be featured on A Bead A Day?
I would like to partner with you and open up the Friday Featured Designer post to 12 bead and jewelry designers who would like to be featured.

Just send me an email at abeadaday@sbcglobal.net with links to each of your sites and any info you want to make sure that I mention.This is a new approach for me, but I was just thinking how easy it is to miss out on some wonderful artists. I will post them beginning in June in the order that I receive the emails.Yay! So exciting!