Beaded Purses

Out & About (The Herald-Mail)
Today's event includes live music; activities for children and youth; Deja Vu Skate Shop from 1 to 3 p.m. with skateboard demonstration and skate gear; Frank Culler magic show at 2 p.m.; and Youth Fest from 6 to 8 p.m. featuring local teen bands and other performances.

SciClone Acquires Exclusive Rights in China to DC Bead Chemoembolization Device (SYS-CON Media)
SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCLN)today announced that it has entered into a three year agreement withBiocompatibles International plc. (LSE: BII) granting SciClone exclusiverights to market Biocompatibles' DC BeadTM chemotherapy releasing devicewithin China, particularly for the minimally invasive treatment ofmalignant hypervascular tumors such as primary liver cancer,

Button Cleaning
Some thoughts on the cleaning of old buttons. The buttons I used in the Antique Button Bracelet really are old. They were my mother's and, most likely, many of them...

Weekend Project: Bead an Antique Beaded Button Bracelet
I've been holding on to these antique buttons I inherited from my mother for ages now, not sure what I wanted to do with them. One day, as I was...

Beadwork Gallery Highlight: Ocean Sunset by Ann Severine
This week's Beadwork Gallery Highlight is the winning entry from the Beadwork Challenge Summer Skies, Day or Night. This beautiful bead embroidery necklace is titled Ocean Sunset and was designed...

Monday Stringing Fun: Dragonfly Earrings
These fun dragonfly earrings are totally cute and totally easy to make. Better stock up on daggers and chicklet beads, because every time you wear these, someone will ask you...

SciClone Acquires Exclusive Rights in China to DC Bead Chemoembolization Device (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a three year agreement with Biocompatibles International plc. granting SciClone exclusive rights to market Biocompatibles' DC BeadTM chemotherapy releasing device within China, particularly for the minimally invasive treatment of malignant hypervascular tumors such as primary liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma. Liver

Cross River Heritage Center party Friday, Last Chance opening a huge success (Cook County News Herald)
The Cross River Heritage Center in Schroeder will have its grand opening party for the 2006 season on Friday, June 9 with a reception from 6-9 p.m. The opening features a first peak at “Common Threads — A Quilt, Fiber and Bead Show,� with 30 artists represented.

Festival brings vikings to park (The Herald-Mail)
Medieval viking traditions such as combat archery, fencing, weaving and bead making will be performed by hundreds of re-enactors Saturday, June 10, transforming Hagerstown's City Park into a virtual Middle Ages fair.

Feeling the need, the need to bead (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Beads have been around for tens of thousands of years - used as money in some societies, carrying spiritual significance in some religions and applied as decoration in many cultures.

The Beginners' Beadwork Bench
Are you new to beading? Just starting out with this wonderful, encompassing hobby? Well, come on in! Join us in this marvelous bead journey. Where to start, you ask> Right...

(AFX UK Focus) 2006-06-09 07:38 GMT: Biocompatibles agrees 3-yr Chinese distribution deal; reaffirms sales guidance (Interactive Investor)
LONDON (AFX) - Biocompatibles International PLC, the medical technology company, said it has signed an exclusive three-year agreement with SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc for the distribution of DC Bead, a drug delivery system, in China.

Today's Community Calendar (Portsmouth Herald)
GARAGE AND BAKE SALE will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Eventide Home, 81 High St., Exeter. All proceeds to benefit the activity program at Eventide Home, a small non-profit nursing and assisted living facility in Exeter. 772-5743.

Monday Stringing Fun: Bristly Caterpillar Bracelet
Make this fun Bristly Caterpillar Bracelet with a handful of dagger beads, some matching furnace glass beads, a few silver rondelle beads and some stringing wire. Fun for summer, this...

This Week's Top Ten Free Bead Patterns
Here's this week's Top Ten Free Bead Patterns for you to bead and enjoy!...

Top Picks: Summer Jewelry
It may not be summer yet in your neck of the woods, but with temperatures in the 80's for the last 2 days, it's close enough for me! Here's a...

Weekly Top Ten Free Bead Patterns
Here's this week's Top Ten Free Bead Patterns for you to bead, share and enjoy!...

Spoiled for choice (Manila Bulletin)
THE excitement, the play, and the fun of footwear design is very much evident in the fabulous Shubizz boutique full of glorious, glamorous rows of colorful, elegant footwear, from wide faux white leather strap pumps with oversized rivet details all the way down to the heel, to wedges wrapped in rich, red vintage paisley patterns with bead and sequin details, to the signature, soon-to-be-classic,

Weekend Project: Soft and Slinky Dutch Spiral Bracelet
Made with size 11/0 seed beads, size 15/0 beads and some really gorgeous size 8/0 blue whiteheart beads, this turquoise-accented Dutch Spiral Bracelet is beautiful to look at and feels...

A torch for glass Bead and jewelry artist turns up the heat (Belleville News-Democrat)
By Maureen Houston A couple years ago, glass artist Rhonda LeMay sat down to an informal how-to on making beads at a friend's west Belleville home.