Meetings
Member Meetings February 10, 2025 6:30pm
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Let's Bead Live January 18, 2025 - Andria Beiber
April 12, 2025 - Jen Segrest
UMBS Bead Retreats Spring Retreat: 3/19 - 3/23/25 Fall Retreat: 9/3 -9/7/25 |
February 10, 2025 6:30pm Monthly Meeting - Betty Cox

Betty Cox Bio Biography: to start….., I’ve always been in the arts , mostly in music but as a young child I was obsessed with drawing elephants in kindergarten and not interested in playing with the other kids! My interests later developed into writing stories until Jr HS and told how I was to draw and not what I wanted to draw. Clarinet became my focus and then learning the cello became my passion to the point above everything else. I was lucky to have been exposed to a fabulous music director that encouraged string players to thrive which I did; always had to be the best, got my Bachelor’s of music performance degree , auditioned for The Toledo SO , eventually became principal cellist and then a permanent substitute cellist for a year with the Detroit SO , toured, did some recordings, played with a chamber orchestra in Jordan, an opera orchestra, did quite a bit of free lancing, shows, chamber playing and later married a cellist and I went to nursing school! I wanted a “real” job and security because music was very cut throat and ended up moving to San Diego . Was an RN and Quit music cold turkey . Unhappy . Moved to Chicago for 3 years got my Masters of Science in Nursing/ speciality in Maternal/child/ Midwifery and licensed nationally to practice as a Certified Nurse Midwife. I had been a labor and delivery Nurse prior to that. Returned to CA. Practiced as a CNM another 23 years as a CNM and retired 4//2020 from Kaiser San DIEGO. I started to develop beading with a gf of mine also a nurse and she made jewelry, Lampwork and we went to bead shows locally and then Tucson! I was hooked. Beading became a creative outlet for me which took the place of my music career that I gave up in my 20s. My youngest son was 16 yo by then. Perfect timing for me. I gradually learned about polymer clay and resin and did both of those and stringing and then chose bead embroidery! I found it to be the most unrestrictive in creativity. My friend told me it’s normal to take 40-60 hours to complete something . I was flabbergasted! She was right! A lot of what I made was crap. She’d look at it and I could tell by her face that it was! But I stuck with it …., I’ve been doing BOTB 9 years this year 2023 , taught in USA, Italy and exhibited in catalogues nationwide and internationally. I’m planning on teaching Zoom this year 2024. I’m teaching and exhibiting at To bead true blue or Colors of the stone 2024 winter show and in LA and excited about being one of the designers for Toho winter 2024 and 2/12/2024 I’ve been asked to do a presentation or power point about “Color in the Drab of the Winter”! The rest is history……
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Let's Bead Live BOTANICAL SHRINKETS
February 22, 2025 - 1pm CST with Vikki Hutchinson
Join Upper Midwest Bead Society for our Let's Bead Live - 1/22/25 1pm CST with special guest Vikki Hutchinson
Shrinkets is a very fun medium that opens you up to a whole new world to use your creativity and make jewelry.
We are going to make a pair of botanical earrings using Prisma pencils, shrink plastic and your oven!
Kits are available. To get a kit, contact Vikki at 706-289-9567 via voice or text. Your kit will contain 2 precut heart shapes, a design template, ear wires, jump rings and 3 Prisma pencils.
Students need to provide jewelry pliers, 350 degree preheated oven, a cookie sheet lined with foil and a cutting board. A silver sharpie works great to color in the edges of the hearts once they are shrunk but it is optional.
The cost of the kit is $18.00 + S&H payable by Venmo (Vikki Hutchinson@vhutchins) or PayPal (Vikki Hutchinson@thebeaderssoul) or you can send me a personal check (Vikki Hutchinson, 1600 16th Ave, Columbus, GA 31901). To get a kit, contact Vikki at 706-289-9567 via voice or text.
We are really excited to welcome Vikki, who will be teaching a class on Shrinkets. Vikki Hutchinson is a bead artist and instructor living in Columbus, Georgia with 21 years of beading experience. Vikki made her first piece of jewelry at the age of 8 and went on to learn string art, cross-stitch, macrame, candle making and basket weaving. When Vikki discovered jewelry making in 2003, she was completely hooked. Since then she has learned countless techniques from numerous instructors. She was very fortunate to be chosed to attend the amazing Marcia DeCoster weeklong Master Design class at the 2013 Bead & Button show.
Vikki has recently retired after a 30 year career in IT and is now able to focus more time creating beautiful, sparkly pieces of art!
This a Free Event to all and you can join us on zoom or watch us Live on Facebook on Upper Midwest Bead Society Public page.
For more information and the zoom link for this go to the calendar page on our website https://www.umbs.org/calendar.html
Shrinkets is a very fun medium that opens you up to a whole new world to use your creativity and make jewelry.
We are going to make a pair of botanical earrings using Prisma pencils, shrink plastic and your oven!
Kits are available. To get a kit, contact Vikki at 706-289-9567 via voice or text. Your kit will contain 2 precut heart shapes, a design template, ear wires, jump rings and 3 Prisma pencils.
Students need to provide jewelry pliers, 350 degree preheated oven, a cookie sheet lined with foil and a cutting board. A silver sharpie works great to color in the edges of the hearts once they are shrunk but it is optional.
The cost of the kit is $18.00 + S&H payable by Venmo (Vikki Hutchinson@vhutchins) or PayPal (Vikki Hutchinson@thebeaderssoul) or you can send me a personal check (Vikki Hutchinson, 1600 16th Ave, Columbus, GA 31901). To get a kit, contact Vikki at 706-289-9567 via voice or text.
We are really excited to welcome Vikki, who will be teaching a class on Shrinkets. Vikki Hutchinson is a bead artist and instructor living in Columbus, Georgia with 21 years of beading experience. Vikki made her first piece of jewelry at the age of 8 and went on to learn string art, cross-stitch, macrame, candle making and basket weaving. When Vikki discovered jewelry making in 2003, she was completely hooked. Since then she has learned countless techniques from numerous instructors. She was very fortunate to be chosed to attend the amazing Marcia DeCoster weeklong Master Design class at the 2013 Bead & Button show.
Vikki has recently retired after a 30 year career in IT and is now able to focus more time creating beautiful, sparkly pieces of art!
This a Free Event to all and you can join us on zoom or watch us Live on Facebook on Upper Midwest Bead Society Public page.
For more information and the zoom link for this go to the calendar page on our website https://www.umbs.org/calendar.html
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Come out and meet new people and share your beading passion.
Come out and meet new people and share your beading passion.
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The Fall show is Sunday TBI @)@%
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The Milwaukee Bead Show Facebook Page