Almost ten years ago I designed some French Beaded Pansies. I made just a single pot with a few lavender colored flowers. Now the pattern has finally been published! 2023 saw lots of successful goals. Now on to 2024!
French Beaded Pansies & 2023 Reflections Read More »
In December I am teaching a free class for my French Beaded Christmas Rose design, which was originally published in my first book “Christmas Collection.”
December Bead-along – French Beaded Christmas Rose Read More »
Hello there, lovely beady people! As some of you may recall, I taught a class in the Seed Beads and More Facebook group last month for String of Bananas and Aeonium, two new French Beaded succulent designs that I developed specifically for that event. I made the Aeonium in three different coloring patterns – ones
My Black Aeonium Tree Project and a New Immortelle Read More »
Learn how to make French Beaded Flower hair clips in this free PDF tutorial by Lauren Harpster.
French Beaded Flower Hair Clip Tutorial & My New Dendrobium Orchid Pattern Read More »
I recently made a French Beaded Wildflower Bouquet for my wall! Come learn about my process in making this piece.
Making a French Beaded Flower Wall-Hanging Read More »
Hello bead friends! I think most of us have run into a situation where we thought we had enough wire to complete a component, but it turned out that we didn’t. Maybe you estimated incorrectly, or maybe you used a lot more wire than the designer, or didn’t realize there wasn’t enough wire left on
How to Add in New Working Wires to French Beaded Petals Read More »
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
Learn French Beading – Intermediate Techniques Video series starting now! Read More »
Hey bead friends! I’m finally back to announce the publication of my whole collection of Jolly Holly – which was an exploration of various methods for making filigree-style French Beading components. Each filigree design uses a different combination of French Beading techniques. And, it’s finally available! I was trying my best to get this collection
My Full Collection of “Jolly Holly” – PDF and Video Class – Plus my new bead drawers! Read More »
For this month’s blog post I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the flowers I made in the first few years of my French Beading journey. I think it’s important for beginners especially to see how the pros start out. We are all a bit messy in the beginning. It’s
Blast into the Past + Pincushion Protea Pattern Read More »
I was hoping to have a new video class for my Camellia design published this month, but the system I use to provide video classes released a new version that was causing problems with the automatic order flow and other things on my website so I was a little nervous to publish it. If you
How I choose beads From Photos for French Beaded Flowers Read More »
Hello my beady friends! Welcome to a brand new year. I’ve got lots of fun plans that I’m hoping I’ll have time to pull together this year. Life just seems to keep getting busier, so we’ll see how much I can do. First fun thing this year is a bead-along! If you remember a blog
Miniature Tulip Study and Bead-along Read More »
“Immortelle” is a French word that means “everlasting.” In the world of French Beaded Flowers this term refers to the beaded Mourning Wreaths – or Couronnes de Mortuaire – that were popular in Europe during the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. These incredible creations were large beaded flower displays that were usually used as
A French Beaded Immortelle Read More »
If you’ve been following me for a while then you know that I have a lot of bead spinners. I collect them. I’m not entirely certain why I’m obsessed with them, but I am. After someone in our Facebook group posted a picture of their cute cupcake bead spinner (from a children’s beading kit), I
How to improve your bead spinners – Plus several new patterns! Read More »
Hello there my beady friends. I’m doing a quick little blog post today about a weird French Beading experiment I did recently. This isn’t a full blown, fully studied and tested idea where I can tell you exactly what to do or what not to do. This is just a quick little idea that I
Can You Use Two-Hole Beads for French Beaded Flowers? Read More »
Today is a good day, because I finally get to update my blog. Forgive me, I’m actually going to publish two blog posts today, since I’m trying to catch up. For this post I thought it would be fun to share with you all the pictures I took during a study on some peach blossom
Peach Blossom Study Read More »
