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Saturday Beading Basics Live events stream live through the Public Upper Midwest Bead Society Facebook Page.
Monthly Member Meetings stream live through Zoom at 6pm CST.
These meetings/links are subsequently uploaded to the Upper Midwest Bead Society Members Only Facebook Page.
Zoom links for both events are emailed to our current members.
Saturday Beading Basics Live events stream live through the Public Upper Midwest Bead Society Facebook Page.
Monthly Member Meetings stream live through Zoom at 6pm CST.
These meetings/links are subsequently uploaded to the Upper Midwest Bead Society Members Only Facebook Page.
Zoom links for both events are emailed to our current members.
UMBS October Monthly Member Meeting
Monday October 4th, 2021 6:00-7:30 pm CST
(Zoom in at 5:45pm)
We are pleased and so excited to have Melissa Grakowsky Shippee as our featured speaker for the October Monthly Member Meeting. Melissa will be talking to us about her elaborate beaded headdresses and masks with an emphasis on her design sense. She'll also be showing us some of her creations from the last 10 years. Melissa G Shippee is a published beadwork designer who teaches workshops internationally, contributes regularly to books and magazines, and illustrates diagrams for other instructors. She studied physics and art in college but turned her attention to beads when motherhood changed the direction of her life. Her publications and contributions include two full-length instructional beading books called Beautiful Beadwork from Nature and I Can Herringbone, as well as projects in Beadwork Magazine, Bead & Button Magazine, Bead Star Magazine, Perlen Poesie, and Beading All Stars. |
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Melissa has been a Beadwork Magazine Designer of the Year and a Starman Trendsetter, and also won awards for her bead artistry. To view more of Melissa's designs, visit www.mgsdesigns.net.
UMBS November Monthly Member Meeting
Monday November 1st, 2021 6:00-7:30 pm CST
(Zoom in at 5:45pm)
Our very own member Lisa Dooley will be our November 1st Member Meeting featured speaker!
Lisa Krupp-Dooley is a self-taught bead weaving artist. Her beading career started in 2016, when she started creating and developing her own patterns and entered her first necklace design into the Potomac Design Challenge. Since then her design "Ava's Planet Beaded Bead" has been published in Maggie Thompson's Interweave eBook in 2017.
In 2020 Beadwork magazine published her "Pearly Peaks Bracelet" design which can be found here: https://www.interweave.com/product/pearly-peaks-bracelet-pattern-download/
She also had Beadsmith (a wholesale bead company) use her design, "Sawtooth Bracelet", as an exclusive project for bead stores. To see more of her designs, please visit her Etsy shop www.lisasbeaddesigns.etsy.com
Lisa Krupp-Dooley is a self-taught bead weaving artist. Her beading career started in 2016, when she started creating and developing her own patterns and entered her first necklace design into the Potomac Design Challenge. Since then her design "Ava's Planet Beaded Bead" has been published in Maggie Thompson's Interweave eBook in 2017.
In 2020 Beadwork magazine published her "Pearly Peaks Bracelet" design which can be found here: https://www.interweave.com/product/pearly-peaks-bracelet-pattern-download/
She also had Beadsmith (a wholesale bead company) use her design, "Sawtooth Bracelet", as an exclusive project for bead stores. To see more of her designs, please visit her Etsy shop www.lisasbeaddesigns.etsy.com
Lisa will be teaching us a fun little project called Buttercup Reversible Earrings. We'll learn how to capture a beautiful flower crystal using the Czechmate 2-hole Crescent beads.
Best of all, this reversible, component-based design can be used to make a matching bracelet and/or necklace too!"
Click on the picture to get the Buttercup Reversible Earrings Supply List
Best of all, this reversible, component-based design can be used to make a matching bracelet and/or necklace too!"
Click on the picture to get the Buttercup Reversible Earrings Supply List
There will be 72 free kits available for our members at Bobby Bead for pick up or mailing. These kits are kindly sponsored by Lisa Krupp Dooley, UMBS, Bobby Bead and Starman Beads. Please contact Rochelle at Bobby Bead 612-879-8181 or email her at Toho_BobbyBead@yahoo.com. Details will be available through our Members Only Facebook page. If you are not a member and wish to have a kit please join our group through the Membership Page on this website.
If you wish to purchase a kit without becoming a member please go to www.lisasbeaddesigns.etsy.com
If you wish to purchase a kit without becoming a member please go to www.lisasbeaddesigns.etsy.com
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