BEADS & Beadwork!! & Other 134 Artsy Places & Shops to Net-Browse

• Abednego Beads (Lisa Walsh)
• Accent Bead Design
• Arizona Bead Company
• Artgems, Inc.
• The Bag Lady
• Bally Bead Company
• Barbara Becker Simon (glass beads)
• Baton Rouge Bead Company
• Baubles & Beads (beads)
• Beada Beada
• Bead & Button (magazine)
• Beadazzled
• Bead Bar Bead & Glass Design Studio
• Bead Cats (Virginia Blakelock's site)
• Bead Fairies Home Page (Bead sources in USA & Canada!)
• Bead FX
• The Bead Goddess
• The Bead Goes on at Beadniks
• Bead Holiday (A Beaucoup Conge)
• The Beadin' Path
• The Beading Frenzy (local store in San Mateo, CA)
• Beadline Studios Crochet Rope Tutorial
• Bead Merchant
• Bead Need
• THE BEAD NET used to be a *totally AWESOME* beadsite! Anyone know where it went???
• Bead Paradise
• Bead-Patterns (for sale)
• Bead Peddler
• Beads and Beyond
• Beadscape (Macintosh beadwork design software)
• Beads F.O.B.
• Beads Forever (beads)
• Beads Galore
• Bead Storm (Stormcloud Trading)
• Bead Street (Aunt Molly's)
• Bead Time
• Beadtown
• The Bead Warehouse
• Beadworks
• Beadwrangler's Tips & Techniques
• Beadville
• Beady Eyed Women
• Beauty and the Bead
• BellydanceNY.com (costume making resource list...with beads)
• Beyond Beadery
• Blue Bear Beads
• Bob's Beading Tutorial Pages
• Boston Bead
• Bovis Beads (aka Crazy Crow)
• Caravan Beads (*awesome* online catalog with graphix!)
• Caravan Beads (another site)
• Cindy O'Leary
• Collectors House (jewelry displays, showcases, boxes, etc.)
• Copper Coyote (wholesale beads only now)
• Crafty Dragon Beads
• Creative Beadwork
• Creative Castings
• Creative Castle
• The Creative Spirit (dichroic beads & more)
• Crystal Myths, Inc.
• Cynthia Rutledge
• Czech Beads (G Ju Hwa Bohemia Inc.)
• D & I Beads
• Da Bead Babe
• Dava Bead & Trade (instructional & beads)
• Dianne's Beadscapes (*distinctive* handmade lampwork beads)
• Don Pierce
• Dream Weaver Beads
• Eagle Spirit Bead Tutorials
• E E Beads (Eclectic Etc. beads)
• Elliot Greene & Company; 37 W 37th St.; New York, NY, 10018; USA (wholesale, ph# 212-391-9075; fax 212-391-9079)
• Embellishments
• Empyrean Beads
• E Z Beads
• Fire Designs Studio
• Fire Mountain Gems
• Frantz Bead Company
• General Bead
• Glass Beads Direct
• Glass Orchids (dichroic glass & metal jewelry)
• Global Beads
• Gypsy Wind Beads (a must see!)
• Harman Imports (wholesale, ph# 516-756-9800)
• Hong Kong Lapidaries, Inc. (outstanding mosaic beads)
• Imperial Crafts (decorative ornament kits)
• I N M Crystals (crystals, crystals & more crystals!!)
• Intergalactic Bead Shows
• Interweave (magazine)
• Jane's Fiber & Beads
• Jewelry Designer Manager (software)
• Just Beads (a bead-only auction site)
• Kandra's Gallery & Beads
• Killer Designs (fused wearable glass, jewelry & articles)
• Lacis
• Margola Import Corporation. 48 W 37th St; New York, NY 10018; (phone #212-695-1115) [wholesale beads]
• Mill Hill Beads
• Mirrix Tapestry & Bead Looms
• Mode Int'l (beads)
• Moondance Designs
• NanC Meinhardt
• Native Beadwork
• Nina Designs
• Ornament (magazine)
• Ornamental Resources
• Out on a Whim
• Pacific Silverworks
• The Place to Bead
• Queen Beads
• Rebeads (handmade beads)
• Resource Advantage (lists of excellent bead wholesalers)
• Rings & Things
• Rio Grande (jewelers' supply)
• Scottsdale Bead Supply
• Second Story Online (beadwork kits-quite a variety!)
• She Beads (Sheilah Cleary)
• Seed Beading Techniques
• Shipwreck Beads
• Sioux Trading Post
• Studio Baboo
• Sun Country Gems
• Tambrook Bead & Trade (Toho beads)
• The (sample)
• Thread Heaven
• TierraCast (quality jewelry findings)
• To Bead
• 2 Bead or Not 2 Bead
• Toho Shoji, Inc. (ph# 212-868-7465, large selection of beads)
• U Bead It (Sacramento, CA)
• Venetian Bead Shop (Santa Clara, CA)
• Watch Us
• Wild Things Beads
• Woodstock Bead Emporium
• York Beads
• The (sample)
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  If you would like me to post your *BEAD* website here, just send me an email with your sitename's URL & I'll be happy to add your site to my where-to-shop-for-beads-'n'-things list.

Art & Educational Places

• View the artwork of my *favorite* American artist!
  .... thee one and only: MAXFIELD PARRISH!
  .... with reference to Pomegranate Books
• Poster Gallery, view all kinds of Parrish prints & other artists

Web-Type References

• Randy's Icon and Image Bazaar Gotta visit this place! It's *awesome*!!

Search Engines ............... (Finds All Kinds of NEAT Stuff for Ya!)

• Google
• LYCOS: A Web Hunter
• Altavista Search Engine
• Web Ferret
• DogPile
• HotBot
• MaMMa
• EXCITE (probably temporary)
• Yahoo

• Hello, I'm Marylin Hafen. Glad you paid a visit to my "in progress/in process" website. I have big plans for it someday; hopefully, I'll get a chance to do a lot of it sooner than later.

• Born in northern California - l was raised in a tiny coastal town of Montara. It had 300 people in 1953, one post office, 1 gas station, 1 hotel & cafe, 1 general store and 2 bus stops on the only 2 paved roads through the town (yes, the rest were gravel). Needless-to-say, I had plenty of time on my hands as a latch-key child in this quaint community where everybody knew everybody else.

• Beading: the childhood days - When very young, I used to play with plastic beads with what was then akin to a non-lighted Lite-Brite type pegboard (basically, a graphic coloring board by using colored pegs as drawing elements). I used to spend hours 'n' hours making pictures, turning it upside down to erase (like an Etch-i-sketch), letting the pegs all fall out, then start all over again with the next picture. It's amazing we keep any of that artistic side of us as adults once high school, college & seeking a profession consume all our time. Somehow I was lucky and came back to beadwork when I was in my early 30's and haven't stopped yet (and trust me, I'm not showing any signs of slowing down--much to the shagrin of my pocketbook!!).

• Bookkeeper by Trade ~ Beadweaver by Hobby - All my professional life I've loved to account for the dollars in and out of companies. I find that it gives me a wonderful feeling to get up each morning to take care of other peoples' books. Just a happy li'l "beancounter" as my friends say of me.... *blush*

• Beadweaver - Which brings me to my hobby! Very apropos for a "beancounter" to also be a "beadcounter!" *hehehe* I approach my beadweaving from a design & "count" status; altho' less creative than that of the approach of a painter (for instance). I find beautiful order and wonder in the designs I can dream up, and the variety and beautiful simplicity of well-designed beadwork.

• Instructor - Back in 1986, an American Indian supply shoppe locally sold a myriad of beads, but without any instructors. At that time, Jerry & Chris Weiss, owners of Rising Arrow in Sunnyvale, California, urged me to teach (simply share) with customers the types of beadwork I was making at the time. (This was before there were hardly even a handful of bead technique books on the market!) Jerry & Chris were *very gracious* and encouraging to me. Their faith in me began a wonderful 10-year teaching endeavor which spanned over 25 beadwork courses ranging from the basic beginnings of beading/beadwork/beadweaving techniques to the more complex and intricate design work for intermediate to advanced beaders. They even let me spread my wings from endemically native American beadwork to European crafts of beadcrochet/beadknitting/beadneedlepoint to the eclectic "Color and Glass" class. I found great rewards by teaching beadweaving techniques to others as it fostered so much creativity. When you see a person's mind & heart & very insides "light up" when learning something new & wonderful -- I tell ya, there's nothing like it!! And, I, for one, appreciate the fact that bead artists worldwide are keeping the craft alive and well and will not let it disappear into antiquity, lost forever.

• Artist - Now, after beading for over 20 years, I find my design moods change as the seasons do ... when I'm creative, my beadwork reflects that; likewise, when I'm busy, the beadwork is tight (good time to work with cabochons!), or when relaxed, that's the time to work on glass ornaments! Do you ever find yourself looking at an ironwork chair or old grecian column design or even building fascia -- almost staring -- because it gives you a BEAD idea?? Sometimes the darnedst things inspire me, y'know??

• Dreamer & Philosopher - Throughout my life, I've been an optimist & an encourager. I believe the best of people, I care a lot for friends, I dream of a world that is guided by the simple premise to treat others as you, yourself, would like to be treated. Throughout my many experiences, I've come to conclude certain things as true -- which has given me a particular philosophy about life. I've written several stories & memoirs & philosophies down on paper. Eventually, I'll post these on another webpage link, for those who are interested.

 

PHOTO of Marylin Hafen -- December 2001

 

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