http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress Kate's site! Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:44:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I would like to announce to the GBUK that I will be coming over the big pond this summer from my home in Bisbee Arizona to spend time with family and friends and to offer Advanced bead making classes. For the past two years I was too busy taking care of ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=51 ELASTIC IS THE SECRET!   Well, not exactly a secret at this point in time…. During the past several years, we have seen an increase in bracelets strung on clear or black and for all I know, colored, elastic.  ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=49 I took this picture of neon tubing flowing  at Plowden and Thompson while teaching there a few years ago. The process is fascinating, P+T is one of the only genuine neon tubing manufacturers in the world. I stay every year with the owners, Barbara and Richard Beadman at their home... a ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=45 I'ts hard to show you how it really was, this is just one little view.. it was wonderful. http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=41 Where to start.. Well, I've been back for quite a while from another divine adventure in France during July and August last year with glass bead making friends Nadine Piskadlo and Frederic Marey. Just after I arrived in early July, it was time for the exhibition I have dreamed ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=40 This corner is provided in my gallery for people who want to watch my instructional films but perhaps cannot afford to buy them. There is a little VCR and a bench just out of the frame. Wendi Maloy, pictured here too, persuaded me to open the gallery five years ago, ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=39 Now that I have learned to blog my pictures, watch out! Thought you might like to see a view of my gallery in Bisbee. Everything in it is made by me including the pictures on the walls, which are pen and inks of the old Sausalito waterfront in the late ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=38 Yes, I'm still here, having a wonderful time of course, and working in the studio/gallery with Frederic and Nadine. I am making beads for the web store and for Uptown Tribal in Bisbee. Fred and Nadine's new gallery opens in just over two weeks, so I am helping them ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=27 Yes, I'm back in Le Treport, Normandy, staying with Nadine Piskadlo and Fred Marey right by the sea. They have a house on the front, and down the road about 5 minutes walk is Nadine's bead shop, Entree En Matiere. Up through the town, through old arches and narrow streets, one ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=26 I thought you would like to see this wonderful letter... I do have a photograph of Nancy throwing one bead into Victoria Falls, with a rainbow and the bead clearly flying and I will put it up here as soon as she sends me a copy on my e-mail... Dear Kate, When ... http://katedrew-wilkinson.com/wordpress/?p=23