Making a French Beaded Flower Wall-Hanging
I recently made a French Beaded Wildflower Bouquet for my wall! Come learn about my process in making this piece.
Free Tutorials
Learn French Beading – Intermediate Techniques Video series starting now!
Hey bead friends! I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned in at least one of my previous posts that I was working on video demos for the techniques taught in my Intermediate Course on the “Learn” page of my website. And it’s finally time for that video series to start! I will be teaching 7 techniques in …
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How to make a French Beaded Boutonniere
I recently finished a custom ordered French Beaded Wedding bouquet with a tropical theme! It was such a fun and challenging project. I’ll put some pictures of the finished bouquet at the end. Someday I will teach how to make wedding bouquets, though it will probably be in a book. But for now I wanted …
Sweetheart Roses and Dendrobium Orchids
I’ve been working on a custom wedding bouquet, and I’ve finally finished the first two flowers for it – hot pink sweetheart roses, and orange dendrobium orchids! The bouquet has a tropical theme, and I’m excited about some of the flowers and foliage I’ll get to make for this project. These rose petals were modeled …
Learn French Beading: Beginner Course
I am beyond thrilled to finally be able to publish information about this project that I’ve been working on (or trying to work on) for over a year. I promised you guys Beginner Course video series with practice flower patterns, and I finally get to announce it! My Learn French Beading: Beginner Course is starting …
A Big Honkin Update!
Hello dear blog readers! This is a really big blog post, and I do apologize for dumping so much at all once. It’s been a wild few months and I’m finally getting a few minutes to update my blog with all the new things that are happening. New Technique Tutorial! First off, let’s talk about …
French Beaded Globe Amaranth – New Video Tutorial with PDF
Earlier this year I made a large arrangement featuring lots of bright and colorful flowers. One of those was the Globe Amaranth, or as I like to call them, spike ball flowers. Many people asked if I would publish a tutorial for these flowers, and I decided to do a video too. 🙂 ​You can …
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French Beaded Moth Orchid Pattern and a French Beaded Bezel
In my last post I shared pictures of a custom Orchid plant that I made and mentioned that I was going to be publishing the pattern soon. I finally got it up! It took longer than I anticipated. It’s 22 pages long and has 96 pictures. That’s a lot of pictures and pages for a …
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Continuous Basic Frame
Wow January has gone by way too quickly. But guess what I’ve got for you guys!? That’s right, it’s a new video tutorial. 🙂 This time I demonstrate a technique of my own invention, which I am very proud of, called “Continuous Basic Frame”. Check it out below. If you’ve purchased my Dahlia patterns, or …
French Beaded Scallops Video Tutorial
Intro I promised you guys a video demonstration of Scallops, and I’ve finally managed to get a semi-decent one made. Yay! Making videos is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but it’s a difficult thing for me to do. I’m pretty shy, and public speaking is pretty far outside my comfort zone. …
Christmas Gifts and a Free Pattern
Well hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the Holidays. I’ve been waiting to update my blog until I could share pictures of what I’ve been working on. I was wanting to make more Christmas ornaments and some christmas trees, but ran out of time to make Christmas presents. So I’m making a few …