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  07.17.2008 | by BeadStyle Magazine

  Turquoise, turquoise, or turquoise?

  You are shopping for gemstones. Hmm, how about some turquoise? Your search leads you to many types of turquoise: Sleeping Beauty, African, Chinese, Viennese, Howlite, and Purple. What to choose? Time for some serious research. And what you will find canMore Filed under: beads, bead shopping, guest blog, Alison Libby, turquoise

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  04.24.2008 | by Jane Konkel

  Fair Trade Connections

  This weekend in my neighborhood is the Westside Artwalk. I am honored to be displaying some of my tagua bead jewelry at Four Corners of the World. The jewelry is made with beads similar to the tagua sliced used in the necklace on the March cover of BeadStyleMore Filed under: beads, travel, bead shopping, jewelry, bead shows, Bead&Button Show, jewelry gifts

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  04.02.2008 | by Jane Konkel

  Lovely Lucite

  I’ve been looking around lately at plastic beads and am intrigued by Lucite. It’s my understanding that Lucite was popularized in the 1930s by DuPont as an alternative to Bakelite. But unlike Bakelite, Lucite is remarkably lightweight and much less expensiveMore Filed under: beads, bead shopping