Contributors - Stringing Magazine

Stringing Contributor Guidelines Stringing magazine is published quarterly. Each issue of Stringing includes more than 100 beautifully strung accessories, accompanied by clear step-by-step instructions and spreads that give beaders ideas and inspiration. The projects range from quick but intriguing necklaces, bracelets, and earrings that can be accomplished in an hour to more complex patterns that may take an entire weekend to complete. Stringing Contributor Guidelines Updated September 8, 2009
Contributors
The following artists contributed projects to Stringing Summer 2009. Artists are listed alphabetically by last name. If you would like to submit your designs for a future issue of Stringing, please see our contributor guidelines above.
	Camilla Altree loves working with a variety of colors and textures because it helps her find her creative way in this fascinating world. Camilla is finishing up a graduate degree in education and hopes to be designing jewelry and teaching high school in Tucson, Arizona, once she graduates. View her work at www.mountaindesigns.etsy.com.
	Kelly Angeley lives, beads, and teaches beading in Florence, Oregon. Although beadwork has become a fulltime occupation, Kelly has been known to occasionally pick up a paintbrush or a guitar. She can be reached at beadologist@gmail.com or through her website, www.kellyangeleybeadologie.com.
	Gaea Cannaday focuses on ceramic pendants and beads. She lives in beautiful Ojai, California, where she enjoys her two beautiful children, two sassy dogs, two independent cats, and one loving husband, Robert. For information on Gaea’s pendants, beads, buttons, and jewelry, visit www.gaea.cc or call (805) 640-8989.
	Years of business traveling enabled Sonja Colt to shop bead stores from Venice to Mexico City and the States coast to coast, amassing an eclectic mix of materials. She incorporates her own lampworked beads, beadweaving (particularly herringbone), and personal quirkiness to create out-of-the-box designs.
	Candie Cooper has been living and working in Shenzhen, China, for the past three years as a designer for craft and hobby publications. Her passion lies in designing jewelry from unique materials and vibrant colors inspired by her travels. Candie is the author of Felted Jewelry (Lark Books, 2007). Visit her website, www.candiecooper.com.
	For more than twenty years Nina Cooper has designed innovative silver jewelry and jewelry parts for Nina Designs. Her mission is to inspire other designers while maintaining a commitment to pay fair wages to her talented silversmiths.
	Beth Crowell lives with her two boys in Connecticut, where she is surrounded by sea glass and vintage beads—her passion. See her designs at www.wiltonartisans.com.
	Kay Daniels is a North Carolina native who creates art, spends time with her family, and works at the bead store Ornamentea. Her work is often entertaining and always delightful.
	Donna Ditges lives in Angleton, Texas. As the door closed on her career, a new one opened that has allowed her to release her pent-up creativity. Donna is now living her dream of having her own business, www.aninisdream.etsy.com. She has two sons, four beautiful grandchildren, and a wonderful, supportive husband.
	Anne Zach Ferguson creates jewelry in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Surrounded by boys all day (one husband and three sons!), she can often be found in her “bead room” in the middle of the night.
	Beth Garbo is the owner of the retail bead shop You’ve GOT to be Beading! in Mystic, Connecticut. Her love of beading has led her to bead shops and artisans all over the world, making her own shop a haven for designing jewelry—with almost every bead she could ever want!
	When Michele Goldstein is not making beads or jewelry in her Oregon studio, she likes to go for walks, explore, take photographs, and travel. Michele began a collaborative line of jewelry with her best friend, Stephanie Sersich, called Hearts and Bones Studio. Using an array of techniques, they create fresh and bold pieces.
	A long-held passion for antique jewelry provides inspiration for Kelly Moore Harms, who has been designing jewelry for about a year. Kelly lives in Orange County, California, with her husband, Steve, and their kids, Amy and Matt.
	Allie Hoffmann lives in Seattle, Washington, where she enjoys being with friends and family (especially her son, Eligh), painting, and beading her little heart out. She currently works for Fusion Beads.
	Jennifer Judd is a full-time Air Force officer and now a part-time jewelry designer. She spends most of her spare time in her basement workshop coming up with new designs. Jennifer took her first stringing class four years ago and has been learning new techniques ever since. She updates a blog with her creative whims at www.jenjuddrocks.com.
	Debra Kallen is everything whimsical. She loves to create fun, funky bead designs, such as chocolates and other sweet treats. She has been lampworking for three years and resides in beautiful British Columbia with her husband of seventeen years and their two dogs.
	Jan Ketza is co-owner of Galena Beads in Galena, Illinois, and Beadology in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. She is an abstract landscape painter and finds great inspiration for her jewelry designs from this art form. Jan will be teaching her “Mystery of Wire Crochet” workshop at upcoming Interweave bead shows. Visit www.galenabeads.com and www.beadology-lakegeneva.com.
	Leeza Khoury is a senior at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, in the jewelry/metals program. She has worked at Turquoise-StringBeads in Fall River, Massachusetts, for seven years. Turquoise-StringBeads is a full-service bead store as well as a jewelry store. Its website is www.turquoise-stringbeads.com.
	Taya and Silvija Koschnick grew up making jewelry with their mother, a jeweler and longtime bead-store owner. Together, the two sisters started Tasi Designs, www.tasidesigns.com, a unique jewelry line that blends precious metals, natural stones, and historically rich antique and ancient trade beads.
	Ndidi Kowalczyk, who lives in Garner, North Carolina, has enjoyed crafting and designing for nearly thirty-five years. When not making floral-inspired jewelry for her company, Hothouse Posey, she splits her time working at Ornamentea, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and being entertained by the antics of her two young children.
	In addition to creating jewelry, Ania Kyte is also a lampworked-glass artisan. To create her jewelry, Ania incorporates her own beads with high-quality materials and components, such as pearls, gemstones, Swarovski crystals, sterling silver, and gold. You can see more of her work at her website, www.turtlebeads.com.
	Tara Leitermann lives with her husband, two young daughters, and a million beads in a Wisconsin village. A love for nature, history, faith, and fantasy have sparked Tara’s creativity from her earliest years and inspired her jewelry-design business.
	Denise Yezbak Moore and her husband, Rusty, live in Yorba Linda, California, with their two children, Garrett and Britton. Her designs are influenced by antique jewelry. She is a frequent contributor to Stringing.
	Mary Pfeiler lives in northeast Iowa on a family farm with her husband, Jim, and two boys, Chandler and Garrett. She loves all levels of beading—from stringing to stitching—which help her stay creative during the long, cold winters.
	Nancy Scali lives in California. The “discovery” of beads has provided Nancy with an infinite creative outlet.
	Molly Schaller is a designer and writer who loves cooking and crafting with kids. She raises her two favorite kids in Muncie, Indiana. Send your favorite cookie recipe to her at mollyschaller@mac.com.
	Carter Seibels is a lampworker, jewelry designer, and co-owner of www.beadtrust.com. Her love of beads and passion for color lead to a life full of all sorts of creative endeavors.
	Stephanie Sersich makes glass beads and jewelry and lives on the coast of Maine. Her first book is Designing Jewelry with Glass Beads (Interweave, 2008). She loves to work with her friend Michele Goldstein, calling their collaborative body of work Hearts and Bones Studio. You can see more of Stephanie’s work at www.sssbeads.com and Michele and Stephanie’s collaborations at www.heartsandbonesstudio.com.
	Alyce Shepardson has been stringing beads for about eight years. She fell into it accidentally and hasn’t looked back. Her company, Swank Jewelry Designs by Alyce, has to this point been a hobby, but she hopes to own her own bead shop one day. View Alyce’s designs at www.swankjewelrydesigns.com.
	Margaret Sherman lives in Upstate New York with her husband and four cats. She has been beading for three years, lately in the middle of the night. She finds beading rather therapeutic!
	Erin Strother is a full-time graphic designer living happily with her husband and dog in Southern California. She has been beading for almost three years and loves working with a wide variety of materials and experimenting with unique design styles. Visit www.studioegraphics.com to see more of her work.
	Designing jewelry is the latest passion for Kathy Thompson. When she is not creating in her studio, she can usually be found on the tennis court.
	Andrew Thornton is a professional fine artist who lives in New York City. Andrew works part time with his family at Green Girl Studios. Visit his blog at andrew-thornton.blogspot.com.
	Based in the Midwest, Heather Trudeau has enjoyed making jewelry under her business name The Peacock Fairy for ten years. She is very involved in her local art center, where she also sells her work. Her pieces can also be found at other local stores and at Etsy. Check out her blog at www.peacockfairy.blogspot.com.
	Julia Watt of Jewel’s Jewels starting making jewelry only two years ago and wonders why it took her so long to discover it! In addition to being a beader, Julia is a freelance photographer, clothing/costume designer, pianist, mom of two awesome twenty-something daughters, and wife to a great guy who understands her penchant for beading into the early hours. Visit her website at www.juliawattworks.com.
	Tresna Wulan has been designing jewelry since 2004. She uses Swarovski crystals and sterling silver findings as primary materials, sometimes incorporating artisan lampworked beads, freshwater pearls, and other fine materials into her designs. She currently resides in Germany, and her works are displayed at www.flickr.com/photos/tiararatu.
	Jen Zeiger is co-owner of Bead Boutique, a bead store in Canton, Ohio. Even though she is surrounded by beautiful gemstones and crystals every day, her true passion is making lampworked beads. She can be reached through her website, www.zbeadz.com.

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