Jewelry Arts Lapidary Journal, October 2004

Departments

• Jewelry Journal ??? Questions, Answer& Tips
• Product Highlights- Loupes

Features

• Awakening to Color (Cathleen McCarthy)- Inspired by painter Gustav Klimt, Flora Book stepped into a colorful new world with her jewelry designs.
• Organized Chaos (Mark Lurie)- For Lauri Copeland, making beads involves both endless flexibility and exacting focus.
• 2004 Bead Art Rewards- We celebrate the winners of our annual bead competition, with some familiar faces and some newcomers.
• This Stop: Beads (Ettagale Blauer)- Celebrated goldsmith Vicki Eisenfeld experiments with size and color by way of fine gemstone beads.
• Gem Show Beads (Si & Ann Frazier)- Many of the beautiful, economically priced beads now popping up on the gem market are a great buy ??? as long as you know what you???re buying.
• Hilltribe Silver (Nina Graci)- In the hills of Thailand, a small village of the Karen Hilltribe produces beautiful handmade silver beads and other jewelry components.
• What is Rainbow Calsilica? (Si & Ann Frazier)- The eye-catching and intriguing new material invites a closer look, and a closer look proved quite revealing.
• Creative Thinking (Hazel L. Wheaton)- Beadmaker Diana East uses glass to represent the most complex and mystical processes of the human mind.

Projects

• Stepping Out (Denise Peck)
• Fumed Pomegranate (Lauri Copeland)
• Going Places (Diana East)- Flameworked and enameled glass bead
• Maasai Beaded Wire Vessel (Wendy Ellsworth)- Basket weaving with seed beads and wire
• Ode on a Grecian Urn (Ann Davis)- Make a vessel bead with hollow electroformed handles
• Star Santa Pendant (Tom & Kay Benham)- Advanced intarsia project
• Whirligig (Ernie Hawes)- A new spin on facet design