Earring Swap - June-July 2012

Earrings are always popular for swaps and this swap was no exception. Beautiful earrings were created and exchanged.  

Loom Challenge April 2012

Loom pieces created especially for our challenge:

Loom pieces beaded by Suzanne and displayed on group:

3D Challenge and Swap - Jan/Mar 2012

BeadDreamz group started the New Year with a 3D Challenge and Swap.  Below are two slides - the first is of the beading swapped with nominated partners and the second is of a few beautiful challenge pieces completed for the challenge.

3D Swap:





3D Challenge:

Bead Embroidery Swap Oct/Dec, 2011

We are a little out of date with our blog but in an effort to catch up we will display as much as possible of beading done in our group activities since our last post.

In the latter part of 2011, eight members participated in a Bead Embroidery Swap and below are photos of the beading completed and swapped.  Everyone seemed delighted with the item they received.

Fish Swap 2011

Our members had a blast making different fish, most starting with the same, basic tubular peyote body, then adding whatever embellishments to make their fish spectacularly individual. We think you will enjoy each and every one of them!

Get on board with the Magazine Challenge!

Do you have a subscription to Beadwork? Bead and Button? Are you actually doing any of the beautiful projects they work so hard to provide for us in each issue? No? Guess what! Neither are most of the rest of us! Our latest challenge, the Magazine Challenge aims to stop that!

The challenge is to take a look at your magazines for the next year, pick a project, and DO IT! And/Or, if you have any old issues laying around with projects that are still on your "to do" list, put them at the top of the pile. We pay for these magazines, don't we? Then why aren't we using them? Good question.

For those who would like to participate but don't subscribe, there's a way for you to participate! Simply go to Bead and Button's or Beadwork's/Beading Daily's project sites and pick a free one! We're giving lists of "example" projects from those sites in case you don't want to search.

The challenge runs through January 2012 (because the magazines are produced every other month and the last issue for this challenge will be December 2011/January 2012).

If you're not a Beaddreamz member, join us and have some fun with your magazines. If you are a member, pull out your magazines and join us!

Some entries have already been submitted. Here is a slideshow created by Aryd'ell to show you what members have already done: