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SPRING 2018 NEWSLETTER

Spring is the season for flowers to bloom. It brings in freshness.....fresh ideas, new , inspiring designs. Use this season to open your minds, open your hearts and create with a passion. Speakers at the monthly meetings are some of the most creative people in the bead industry. You will discover new techniques, kindle friendships, be introduced to great designs, and more.

Welcome to the new location for the monthly BSNC meetings and BEad TOGETHER events. The Albany Community and Recreation Center at 1249 Marin Avenue, Albany (map) will provide us with the amenities we require to present captivating and informative monthly speakers, and quarterly BEad TOGETHER events for members to share their beading discoveries and to be inspired. Together we can strengthen the educational mission of the Bay area.

All About Softflex - Sara Oehler

On January 16, 2018, our first speaker of the year was Sara Oehler from Soft Flex. Sara has been with the company since 1999 and is currently their Sales and Marketing Manager. In this position, she has worked with both Jamie Hogsett and Kristen Fagan to publish two wonderful books* on how to use Soft Flex. She just moved from Arizona to Albany and lives close to our new location. At Soft Flex, she is in charge of developing classes as well as videos which are held every Wednesday at 1:00 on their Facebook page.

Soft Flex was the brain child of Mike Sherman and Scott Clark...literally in their garage (a familiar development in the SF Bay area!). Mike developed a line of awesome, yet heavy jewelry which featured large stones and elements. The only beading wire available https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1130086689892&format=html&print=true 1/13 4/29/2018 Spring 2018 Bead Society Newsletter back in the day was "Tiger Tail" which was priced at $3/spool. They received numerous complaints about the wire breaking so set out to develop their own ~ and did ~ and Soft Flex was born.

The heavier .024 was developed first, as that was the weight needed to carry the heavy elements of Mike's jewelry line. The 30' was initially strung around two paint cans; but now, with modern production, it is no longer hand spooled. The wire was introduced to and supported by their local bead stores that tried it out successfully.

The rest is history...but that night, we learned things from Sara that most of us never knew. Soft Flex comes in three strengths: .014, .019, and the original .024. It has a stainless steel core of microwires that are non-tarnish. The nylon coating is colored, with the color names and hues based on actual gem stones. It is hypoallergenic and color-matched to Pantone.

.014 - FINE - is made for seed beads and fresh water pearls. It has 21 strands and a thinner nylon coating. It comes in five colors. .019 - MEDIUM - is made for general purposes: glass, mineral, and metal. It has 49 strands and comes in 22 colors. (.019 is more expensive than .024 because the 49 strands are taken through a draw plate to make the wire thinner) .024 - HEAVY - is made for those beading elements that might have abrasive cores and for large stones. It also has 49 strands and comes in four colors. It is especially good for use in making bracelets, as they get a lot of wear and tear.

The part of Sara's presentation that was of real interest was the importance of using their famous colored beading wire. How the color becomes an integral part of the design element and enhances the color of the stones and gems used by the artist. Their special "Trios" are a lot of fun to experiment with, as they come in 10' spools and are color coordinated. All of the colors are also available in 10' spools if you want to try your hand at playing with color.

HSN (Home Shopping Network) had a problem with their jewelry breaking. They tested all types of beading and jewelry making products for a year starting in April 1, 2010. Soft Flex won ~ hands down. Now they mandate that all their jewelry is strung on Soft Flex. They also give written testimonial that Soft Flex is the best quality.

Their other well-known product is Soft Touch. It has a softer feel and is more flexible. Where Soft Flex is made in Sonoma, Soft Touch Premium is made on the east coast. The difference with using this premium product is that it also comes in .010 - VERY FINE - which is 7 strands and is most often used in stringing fine quality gems and pearls. It has a thin coating and is also used for in off-loom techniques.

A new product is Extreme Beading Wire. It is a special 1x19 micro woven alloy. It is more expensive but is made in 24kt gold plated, in .925 Sterling Silver and in Champagne, in which the copper alloy is plated with a clear nylon to show the warm color, is eco-friendly and free of harmful metals.

The Soft Flex Metallics line is made in the three major sizes, comes in copper and antique brass, and will not tarnish.

https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1130086689892&format=html&print=true 2/13 4/29/2018 Spring 2018 Bead Society Newsletter Their Econoflex wire is made in China. It comes in .010, .014, and .019. It is made with 7 strands, comes in 10 colors, and the cost is normally under $5.00. Because it has fewer core strands, it is not recommended for regular jewelry unless created with multiple strands. Pro Econoflex comes in .014 and .019, is made with 49 strands and comes in the colors gold and steel.

*Two books were offered at a discount that night and were co- authored by Sara. " Revolution" contains 32 projects that are shown in two color ways each, uses the new 2-hole, 3- hole, and 4-hole beads, and are all projects can be completed in one sitting! "Show Your Colors", contains 30 beading wire jewelry projects. Both books give a great deal of information about Soft Flex as well as the company products and tools to use with them.

The next category Sara went over were tools: Soft Flex offers crimps which are 2 times thicker than others in the market. They are seamless, thick, strong, and come in three sizes: 1x1, 2x2 (the size most beaders use), and 3x3. Sara taught a beading class where the hosting company insisted that she use their own crimps. The projects kept breaking and it was a total disaster until she brought in their Soft Flex crimps = success!

Soft Flex also offers crimping tools. Micro, Regular, Mighty, and the new Magical Crimper. The key issue is to NOT press too hard. Press gently and go around numerous times. The Magical Crimper makes a little rounded "bead" with four tiny corner points. The crimpers made by both Beadsmith and Eurotool were compared to Soft Flex and Soft Flex came out on top.

What surprised many of us was that Soft Flex also made Craft Wire. It comes 18 gauge to 28 gauge. It is made with a copper wire base, coated in polyurethane, does not tarnish and is 100% lead and nickel free.

Members asked what Soft Flex could be used for other than stringing beads. We were amazed that it is often used in looming, Kumihimo (the 10' bobbin is perfect), knotting, and macramé. One customer even crocheted a dress with it.

SoftFlex is located at 22678 Broadway (Hiway 12) in Sonoma. They are open to the public on Wednesdays from 8:00am to 4:00 pm. Their phone numbers are: 1-866-925-FLEX (3539) or 707-938-3539. Sara also offers a video on Facebook at 1:00 pm. Check her out directly at SaraOehler.com

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On February 20, 2018, the Bead Society took a quick and colorful trip through the life of Jayashree Paramesh growing up in India and how it influenced her artistry years later.

Jay described herself as a "Spice Girl" on Planet Bead. Her presentation gave us a whirlwind world tour of her sources of inspiration. Most importantly, she stressed her cultural heritage in India as well as her personal heritage after India. What we really saw was color - color - and more color --- combined with her inspired design.

Amazingly, Jayashree submitted a design to shortly after she began beading...and they accepted it! In 2009, she went into Barnes & Noble and bought a beading magazine. The next day, she went to her local bead store in Seattle and bought some beads. A local artist's necklace was featured on the cover of that magazine. Of course, she had to purchase simply everything! She fell in love with beading and began teaching after a couple of years. Her tutorials started appearing in bead magazines; and in only three years, she had her very own bracelet on the cover!

We next followed her transition into today's bead world. She knew the ins and outs of pattern making, so in 2012 she made it into Beadwork Magazine. She made and submitted two items. They were both accepted. The instructions into how they were to be constructed came later. In the following two months, they accepted two more items! Jayashree was on her way in the bead world. She purchased bead books by Laura McCabe, Marcia De Coster and others , learned how to write successful beading instructions.

We all agree that love of jewelry knows no boundaries. Design and workmanship crosses all cultural boundaries and most of her designs are credited to historical influences and her international travels.

Through her presentation, we learned how she evolved into the noted bead artist she is today. Her natural artistic abilities drew her to color and shapes, and she constantly sketched on napkins, receipts, anything she could get her hands on. When she saw something that inspired her, she knew that she needed to capture it at once, lest it be lost.

Her designs began with 2-3 materials in a base, and then added accents as they occurred. She often started small, creating the earrings, and then expanded up and out with her developing design. She planned the main components and their assembly in order. She laid out the biggest pieces to be bezeled. She moved them around until a design symmetry developed. Then, she walked away...left the room for the night. If she was still pleased by the design when she returned in the morning the design was set...... if not, she started over again.

https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1130086689892&format=html&print=true 4/13 4/29/2018 Spring 2018 Bead Society Newsletter Color can influence a design to either float or sink. She wasn't satisfied following the standardized rules she was taught in the school, and often combined jewel tones with earth tones, adding gold and silver. Her first beading designs are usually executed in colors that compliment her skin tone. Jay will then develop three or four kits in other color schemes.

Jay's heritage has undoubtedly inspired and influenced her designs greatly. This heritage includes textiles, jewelry, and textures in festival celebrations, as well as in the temples.

Jay often teaches at a senior center in Seattle. Her favorite is the Holi Festival - a celebration of color where everyone is allowed to be a child once more by throwing bundles of pure color at each other. Jayashree explained a number of other celebrations extolling their influences over her life with the color, designs, and decoration of each. Everyone is familiar with the Taj Mahal; but unless you have been fortunate enough to travel there, you have not seen the beautiful wall carvings, inlaid marble, and mosaic work. With today's movie world, Bollywood has had a large influence outside of India in dance, color, jewelry, patterns and song. Even the fronts of homes are decorated. In one area, the people awake at 4am to draw decorations onto the front walls with rice powder...then the birds eat it, and all is right in the world once more.

In 1988-1991, Jay earned a degree in design from the Parsons School of Art and Design in New York. She learned how to coordinate clothes and jewelry into "collections" -- a fashion concept that was not natural to her upbringing and customs learned back home in India. She was certainly forced to step outside her comfort zone while studying there. She learned how draping various fabrics on dress forms reacted differently. Working with beads has the same issues, and how combining beads with different stitches changes the shape and texture of the piece designed. Pattern making, construction, and the engineering taught her how to manipulate patterns which lead to finished items of clothing; and the finishing of the garments leads to her learning to further decorate the garments. Unfortunately, learning these techniques in a school setting left her no time to experiment outside the class structure. It was over twenty years before she picked up beads again...but when she did ~ wow! Much of her experience from that time is translated into her fashion with beads today.

Jayashree constantly explores fashion magazines to explore the current designers, jewelry and accessories. There has recently been a resurgence of animal prints, Asian inspiration, and metallics. Fashion magazines illustrate the trends; and by slanting the designs she creates to match these trends, she achieves a positive reaction culminating in happy students and customers.

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Pantone™ publishes a Color Forecast every year to guide the industry. This year, in 2018, the color is Ultraviolet. Design houses pay thousands of dollars every year to develop styles and patterns within the annual color realm. She uses colorboards and trends published by these companies for inspiration.

Jayashree visits the museums wherever she travels. The Renaissance and Byzantine eras used lots of pearls, brooches, and pins; Islamic Art features patterns from geometry which is found in their designed tiles. All these are a rich source of inspiration. She also finds inspiration from nature, leaves, flowers, butterflies, birds, from patterns in nature and from patterns around us in décor, fabrics and more.

Jayashree brought many examples of the jewelry she has developed, allowing our members to purchase either kits or tutorials, enabling us to then create her beautiful jewelry pieces on our own.

Contact her at: [email protected]

The Design Process and Incubating Ideas into Tangible Beadwork Designs - Melanie Potter

Melanie Potter is the owner/artist/designer for School of Beadwork and a national/international instructor teaching unique off-loom seed bead jewelry designs. Her background in couture sewing was a natural transition into beadwork design and construction. Melanie's presentation explained the design process for incubating ideas into tangible inspiration and methods she incorporates to execute on these ideas to create a finished design.

Melanie has a business background working in the software industry. The rest of her time, she spent her artistic hours doing fine hand work stitching and sewing. Then, her daughter taught her how to do peyote ~ the rest is history and the bead world is certainly better for it. She has now beaded for over twenty years, and admits to literally beading all over the house as well as in her studio.

https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1130086689892&format=html&print=true 6/13 4/29/2018 Spring 2018 Bead Society Newsletter Living in San Luis Obispo gives Melanie and Scott a central base for traveling around California. We were fortunate to have them here on March 20, 2018.

As members of the Bead Society of Northern California, we have probably all read a tutorial or two. Melanie's presentation outlined all the planning and work that goes into creating successful tutorials. The entire room was amazed.

She began by demonstrating her sketching process and prototyping techniques which evolve into the finished pieces. Melanie described the organizational systems she uses to make her work streamlined, and efficient in selecting materials for her color palettes. She discussed her process of writing and illustrating her patterns that refines her beadwork designs.

There are 5 phases of Melanie's design process: 1) Requirements and inspirations; 2) Ideation exploration; 3) Prototype development; 4) Testing to verify that the item works as intended; 5) Distribution / Codify and Production

Client requirements: She works with clients (such as beading magazines) to determine their design vision and her deadline. Melanie carries a sketchbook and a "bullet" journal, keeping notes of any little thing that pops into her head as she walks around, goes shopping, lazes in a hammock, travels the countryside to and from teaching. She has found that these journals help to enrich her visualization process. . Her main exercise is lap swimming, and she often comes up with ideas while swimming or lounging around on the patio. She also is inspired while riding her bike, and hiking. Requirements: She works out what stitch(es) she could use, and her color palette. Then, the sketching begins. She looks to nature, beads, books, movies, gain in interaction from things around her. She does research by taking photos, gathering reference material and articles, and consulting her extensive library of watercolor books and nature photos. Ideation is to discover ideas. She explores word pictures by making sketches, notes concepts, brainstorms on a storyboard, and weaves ideas together. By having all of the ideas before her, she can visualize her developing ideas, things that don't even exist yet. Wild thoughts can become a thread just like spins into the fabric of an idea. Melanie becomes a story teller, a poet, a weaver of colors and ideas. The client usually has some type of idea of what they want, and Melanie needs to transform that into a picture. The development of a prototype is the most difficult part. She begins to work out the textural components of the designs. She plays out the client's ideas into her sketchbook; and from there, develops the dimensional shapes into a rough design. The development entails the most difficult parts: technicalities of its structure, the smaller parts that will work with the center ideal, and adding the colors . She begins with developing the smaller components, works out the basic shapes and then determines the beads that will draw all the elements together. Testing the prototype: She has the most fun when testing out the prototype. She physically makes the item and wears it all day, every day. By doing this, she can learn how it fits on her body, if it is comfortable, and if it is structurally sound. She needs to be very critical of this stage of development to observe all of the results ~ no matter https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1130086689892&format=html&print=true 7/13 4/29/2018 Spring 2018 Bead Society Newsletter how discouraging. If everything goes as planned, she then moves forward into the instruction development. If something doesn't work as planned, she regroups and develops another prototype. Melanie explained how she made up one particular prototype for a client: On the first day it broke, and she fixed it. On the second day, it broke again and in the same place. Aha! Something was definitely wrong in that stage, so she went back to work on her design board. She stopped everything and sketched out numerous ways that the breakage area could be changed and how it would affect the overall design. Distribution and Production. While Melanie executes the prototype, she writes down everything she does, step by step and bead by bead. She also takes photos of each step, paying close attention to every minute point that could or would make it easier to make the instruction a success. Melanie draws detailed illustrations of the layout of each section and labels each part carefully. Then she proofreads every step. When she feels that she has the layout finalized, the pages numbered, and each step matching it's picture correctly, she gives it to others to also proofread, making any corrections or clarifications as they are found. Only then, does she make up color prints.

When everything has been completed, Melanie finalizes the instructions. She prints out them on paper that will fit into the kit envelope along with the packages of beads involved. Then the real test begins. The beads for the kits are organized into their bags.

She then designs kits in four to five different color palettes. Once they are all put together, she trials the new tutorial kit in classes, examining the students' ease of understanding her tutorial and accomplishing the finished product.

The color choices are often as critical as the design itself. She creates the first prototype in her favorite color story, working with muted colors, playing with the color wheel, and then inventing her own palettes using colored pencils and watercolors.

The success of one design often leads to others. She examines her goal, where she may have gone wrong in the design, and what was she thinking that may have caused her to go off on that tangent. Were the color combinations wrong? Was there a flaw in the design? Failure can be very discouraging, and it takes a strong person to achieve the next success.

Melanie is constantly changing her design systems. She has a huge backup stock of beads, organized by size and color; but her working stock is packaged in 2x2 clear bags. This way, moving colors around from on her different work stations is much more manageable. Her color stories are organized by tones, as color is relative. Light shades refract onto each other and the wrong shade, even the wrong thread color, can totally affect the overall look of a design.

Then she weighs the beads used in each part of the kit. This allows her to order sufficient quantities to build the kits and have enough for reorders.

https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1130086689892&format=html&print=true 8/13 4/29/2018 Spring 2018 Bead Society Newsletter Melanie works on the instructions for a minimum of two hours per days. Under tight deadlines and compressed schedules she can work 12 hour days writing and beading. However, she prefers working steadily at a comfortable pace. It usually takes a month to put a kit together, weighing the parts of the prototype, ordering the beads and parts needed, and separating everything into each kit color way. This is all organized into a spreadsheet so she can visualize and make any changes as needed.

Her work is published in a number of books and magazines including Master's Beadweaving, Major Works by Leading Artist, Larks, 2008.

Melanie Potter is an off-loom beadwork artist innovating new designs each year for a number of beading venues. She and her husband Scott also run the yearly premiere beading event, "Beads on the Vine" on the central coast of California. BOTV is celebrating its 17th anniversary!

**All this goes to prove one important thing: Be nice to your bead instructor, as she has gone through all of the steps you have just read.

Melanie's Trunk Show: Melanie and Scott brought a trunk show with them featuring her kits and supplies, beads at a discount just for BSNC.

www.melaniepotter.com

www.beadsonthevine.com

BSNC Calendar of Events The Bead Society of Northern California May 6, 2018, 11:30am: BEad Together is a non-profit, May 11, 2018, Deadline to submit Bead Challenge Entry independent, May 15, 2018, 7:00pm: Speaker: Kim Fox educational July 17, 2018, 7:00pm: Speaker: Robert K. Liu September 30, 2018, 12:00pm: Beaded Starfish Class organization for October 16, 2018, 7:00pm: Speaker: Frederick Bourguet people interested in Chavez the collection, history, design, production, and exhibition of beads. BEad TOGETHER The Bead Society is accepting donations The Next BEad Together: May 6, 11:30am. at Membership, Bead Society of Northern The BEad TOGETHER is a quarterly event for beaders and their like- California. minded friends. This is an opportunity for people who share an interest in beading, discovery, and sharing to come together for an afternoon. Bring a friend and project to work on, along with stories and tasty treats to share for a memorable afternoon. https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=1130086689892&format=html&print=true 9/13 4/29/2018 Spring 2018 Bead Society Newsletter

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BSNC Membership Become a member of the Bead Society or if your membership expires in soon, please go Pack your beading project and favorite food to share, then come on to Membership, out to the next BEad TOGETHER. Bead Society of Northern The Next BEad TOGETHER is scheduled for May 6th, 2018, 11:30- California and 3:30 at the Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave., Albany, learn about the CA. Map benefits to BSNC Members. For more information, please go to: BEad Together.

Join Our Mailing 2018 Bead Challenge List!

Under The Savanna Sun

Deadline: May 11, 2018

The 2018 Annual Bead Challenge, Under the Savanna Sun, is nearing its conclusion. If you have an entry, you will need to submit it to Teri Lawson by May 11. Judging will occur at our May monthly meeting, May 15.

Please email Teri at [email protected] to make arrangements for submitting your entry.

For more information, click here.

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Beaded Starfish Class

September 30, 2018 12:00-4:00pm Taught by Marilyn Peters

Remember when we were young, everyone had a "Pet Rock" ~ well, this class will show you how to create a "Pet Beaded Starfish". They will be complete with a little mouth and real looking feet, in colors that you choose out of over 50 choices that I offer. After completion of the pattern simply attach a loop to make earrings, pendants or a key fob.

For more information and to register for this class, click here.

Monthly BSNC Meeting

Come one, come all beaders to our monthly meetings held on the third Tuesday, except not in August or December. These meetings are open to both members and non- members, all experience and beading talents welcome. Each meeting focuses on a different topic and you may be surprised by the wealth of information.

Each meeting includes a 30 minute social time, 7:00- 7:30pm, followed by a speaker, and closing with a question/answer session. Meetings are held at Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Street, Albany, CA. Map

If you are interested in speaking or would like to hear a favorite artist speak, please contact the Program Chair.

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ALAMEDA SAN JOSE Bead Inspirations www.BeadInspirations.com Sew Bedazzled 1544 Park Street Tel: 510-337-1203 1068 Lincoln Avenue Tel: 408-293-2232 10% discount except class fees, books, 10% discount except on classes. consignment jewelry & instructor material kits. SANTA CRUZ Kiss My Glass BROWNS VALLEY 660A 7th Avenue Tel: 831-462-3077 Wild Things Beads www.WildThingsBeads.com 15% Discount PO Box 356 Tel: 530-743-1339 20% discount on Czech pressed beads and fire VALLEJO polish. Beads in Pomegranate Seeds 538 C Florida Street Tel: 707-557-3337 CONCORD 10% Discount Just Bead It! www.JustBeadItConcord.com 2051 Harrison Street, Suite C Tel:925-682- INTERNET STORES 6943 Beads On Main. At shows, will offer a 10% DANVILLE discount to BSNC members. Cottage Jewel www.CottageJewel.com 100 Prospect Avenue Tel: 925-837-2664 Beadshaper www. Beadshaper.com 10-15% off everything not marked net. coupon code is: BSNC58713coupon 10% discount on handcrafted items bought GARBERVILLE directly from Beadshaper through the Garden of Beadin' www.GardenofBeadin.com Beadshaper web site and at the Beadshaper 752 Redwood Drive Tel: 800-232-3588 booth at shows in Northern California. This Fax: 707-923-9160 Email: [email protected] does not apply to Beadshaper items sold at art 10% off for all BSNC members, in our store or galleries, boutiques, or through at any of our shows. Does not apply to already another vender. The discount only applies to discounted merchandise. items created by the Beadshaper. It does not apply to Beadshaper classes or items OAKLAND purchased by the Beadshaper for resale. Blue Door Beads www.BlueDoorBeads.com It cannot be applied together with any other 4167 Piedmont Ave Tel: 510-652-2583 discount. 10% discount on classes. 15% discount on all full price loose beads & strands. Sign up for Natural Touch www.NaturalTouchBeads.com our E-Newsletter to receive exclusive links to Tel: 707-781-0808. BSNC members receive 10% our TrueBlue loyalty program, offering off their Resin Bead Purchases. Put note in discounts and coupons. comments section of checkout or call 707.781.0808 Discount does not apply to sale items or markdowns.

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