Are you ready?!?!

Kieu is here and ready to show us some metal ✨magic this weekend. She is also bringing all the tools too! She also owns and operates The Urban Beader, which supplies you with all the things you need to stamping, soldering, and enameling! Three days only and a couple spots are still available for her classes. Click here to see Kieu’s workshops!

What are you doing this Columbus Day Weekend?

LET’S PARTY!

In celebration of Columbus Day we are having a pearl party!  SHOW US YOUR PEARLS and get a strand for FREE! Plus we are putting out a boat load more pearls out just for the weekend SALE. Take advantage of this opportunity and get into to Star’s Beads this Saturday, Sunday and Monday for 30% off on ALL of the pearls in the shop. We will also have OPEN BEAD all weekend long so get your holiday gifts prepared early this year and come get your projects done!

See you there!

Keith O’Connor Pottery and Raku THIS WEEK!

OCTOBER SPECIAL!

See some amazing treasures all month long!  Start your holiday gift shopping now!

See a different product line EVERY WEEK this month:

• Raku (THRU THIS WEEK ONLY!)
• Pottery  (THRU THIS WEEK ONLY!)
• Lampwork beads
• Russian porcelain and more!

See the latest updates on FB or www.starsbeads.com.

Kieu Pham Gray has been rebooked!

Star’s Beads is excited that we were able to reschedule Kieu to come teachOctober 13th-15th.  Kieu had to unfortunately cancel her workshops at POP UP Washington due to vertigo but she is back at it and is excited to get back on the road to see us in a few weeks.  If you missed her the first time, you get another chance!  Do not miss out on learning the secrets from a master who can make you look like a pro in hours!  She will have all the supplies to get your personal set up too and can even create a custom stamp with your logo.

See all the October classes at www.starsbeads.eventbrite.com!

Paulette Rosner Baron has been beading since 1994, and teaching bead weaving classes in the Washington, D.C. area since 1996. In addition to teaching around her home base, Paulette also teaches across the country, including the Bead and Button Show, bead societies and premiere bead stores.

Having earned her Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University, she became a Graphic Designer. But it was when she became involved with beads that she found true calling. Her need to be creative and to work with colors and design had finally found a home. She has become known for creating three dimensional sculptural pieces of art out of beads. Her pieces utilize different sizes and shapes of beads and are made using a wide assortment of off-loom bead weaving stitches.

Paulette is illustrator and co-author of Beading Across America: A Jewelry Inspirations from Coast to Coast, 2011, Kalmbach Publishing with Sherry Serafini and Amy Katz.

Paulette’s Pinwheel Garden Necklace appears on the title page of The Beader’s Color Palette by Margie Deeb. She has three projects, including on the cover flap, in Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry by Lark Books. Paulette’s freeform sculptural brick stitch work is featured in Diane Fitzgerald’s book, “Beading With the Brick Stitch.” Two of her freeform sculptural peyote creatures were in the 2005-2006 traveling exhibition “The Beaded Figure.” Her Pinwheel Garden necklace won 2nd place in the 2005 Bead Dreams exhibition. This piece is also in the Dairy Barn traveling exhibit “Bead International 2006”. Paulette is one of the artists featured in the Japanese publication “The Best Collection of Beadweaving Stitches by 9 American Bead Artists” by Kumiko Mizuno Ito.

See her latest collections of fabulous finds for bead embroidery and see her work in person!

POP UP Washington

 Bead & Craft Social Marketplace

Come spread the joy of

beading and crafts with us!
SEPTEMBER 23RD – 24TH

OPEN BEAD

September 2 Saturday 12:00-4:00

Join us in celebrating Labor Day weekend with a fun play day!  Bring something that needs repair, design something new, or just come for fun! Come for an hour or come all day!

FREEBIES, snacks and refreshments will be served.

*BYOB: Bring your stash and lets play!

HAPPY NATIONAL BEADING WEEK!

JOIN US THIS SUNDAY

NOON – 4PM

It’s National Beading Week so join us in celebration with a surprise trunk show with Star’s Clasps and open bead THIS Sunday from noon to 4pm! Happy Beading!

Do something new this summer and get those creative ideas into motion! Your passions are what make the world go round! Plus its healthy for the brain, beautiful for our bodies, and speaks to the soul. 💃🏻

ANNUAL PEARL SALE!

Are you ready?

Star’s Beads annual pearl sale is HERE!

Fabulous inventory, great deals,

&  limited time only!

Coming July 7th – 9th

A Tudor Queen’s Earrings

These earrings were inspired by the fabulous jewelry from the show The Tudors. I noticed that Henry often recycled the jewelry that he gave his wives. If you were looking, once he was done with his current queen, the jewelry often showed up on the neck of another queen! So my ode to the wives of Henry the eighth! Stitch beadwork bezels around crystals and add layers of beads, crystals and crystal pearls. Add a few dangly crystal or pearl drops on the lower edge, and ear wires and the look is complete!

Get prepared for this class and start with A Piece of Cake offered right before this class. This is an intermediate to advanced beading level project. You must be proficient in the peyote stitch and with stepping up.

June 24 Sat. 2:00-5:00 $35.00

Diane Dennis, instructor

Peyote Basics: A Piece of Cake Bracelet

This is a great seed bead 101 class; we will take it from the beginning. You will learn about the different bead sizes and shapes, about needles and thread types.  So, if you’ve never tried peyote because of those little beads, why not give peyote another look with larger double size beads. Create a band of single even count peyote to fit your wrist. Embellish the sides with a ruffle of drop/fringe/dagger beads. Create closure with a bead loop and a Czech flower bead, a button or use a purchased clasp. Once you learn the technique these bracelets work up fast!
Excellent for beginners.

June 24 Sat. 10:00 – 1:00 $35.00

Diane Dennis, instructor

Knotted Mala with Beaded Tassel

Come learn to make a beautiful knotted Mala along with a beaded tassel. Malas are traditionally used for meditation and prayer, but they are also worn as necklaces. You may use any round stone or gemstone that holds meaning for you. There is traditionally 108 beads on each mala, along with a guru bead and tassel. Come join us in making one! This is the latest trend and there are so many tassel variations you can do from seedbeads to chain! Knotting experience is required and is being offered May 27th, the Saturday prior to this class and is great for all levels.

May 28 Sun. 12:00-4:00 $45.00

Kathy Scripka, instructor

BEAD SOCIAL SUNDAY

SHOW & TELL + OPEN BEAD

Join us Mother’s Day for a little bead social.  Break out that jewelry and dress to impress for Show & Tell Sunday.  We will also have open bead so be sure to bring something that needs repair, design something new, or come just for fun! Snacks and refreshments will be served.

BYOB: BRING YOUR OWN BEADS OR…

FREE PEARLS will be given to all those that join us!

POP UP SHOP + TORCH DEMO with THE CAPTURED MUSE

MAY 13TH + 14TH

Get fired up for a demo on a new interchangeable AND portable hand torch. Brought from the world of orthodontics to jewelry, this little baby packs some heat and precise enough not to hurt your pearls and stones! Better than the Little Smith and not carried by Rio, be sure to stop by this weekend to see it in action!

Also get a chance to meet Charles. Star’s Beads metal man who can teach you to transform metal into art and since he a local art teacher and photographer, he has an eye for color and details. He will be showing you his wearable artwork along with bringing his torch to show you a technique or two on the spot. Fired up? Take a class from him the following weekend on enameling.