one of Cyndi Lavin's neckpieces, wonderfully mysterious and sensual, entitled "Midnight at the Oasis" to be found on one of her sites, here

Marcia DeCoster's "Butterfly" necklace, below, so evocative of the past and the present combined, and so very chic!

Marcia DeCoster's "Abrege" bracelet, below--Marcia--please correct the name if I am wrong. The precise nature of this bracelet combined with the glorious colors remind me of the sun setting at Versailles. A very regal piece.

Jean Campbell's "Star of India" necklace, below, entrances the eye with lovely colorplay and jaw-droppingly inticate detail. What a beauty of a piece! I would feel like a queen wearing this. Jean Campbell's "Le Cirque" bracelet, below, dances and shimmers and scintillates like an energy filled party celebration! What a delightful bracelet in every way! THE JEAN'S LIST An initial list of wonderful seed beaders and weavers I have chosen for my blog entry this time around. There are many more seed beaders whom I love for specific reasons. They will appear later on in separate entries.

1) Jean Campbell , Jean Campbell's blog: What to say about la kewl and witty Campbell?

Her intelligence combined with her passionate soul mull a magic potion for some of the loveliest seed beaded jewelry around. I particularly enjoy her seed beading books which interpret famous paintings and eras through her use of seed beads. I am thinking of Beading Works of Art: Art Nouveau (with Judith Durant), Beading Works of Art: Impressionism (with Judith Durant) in particular. It is quite a feat to translate a beautiful art work, or to portray the style of an era in a specific and lovely jewelry design. It is remarkable! Her sense of color deserves an award in and of itself. Her abilities are never ending. She is not just a seed beader, she is a seed beading ICON. Jean Campbell never stops surprising and delighting us with her joie de vivre concerning these little, colorful shiny glass beads and what they can do in the hands of a true artist! I give her *FIVE Tohos* for her brilliant, unique, trendsetting creations!

MADdesigns:

or Marcia DeCoster, here is her blog: maddesignsbeadsblogspot.com: I have only recently met Marcia DeCoster on Facebook, but we seem to have a kinship, possibly based upon our mutual love of beauty, or maybe based upon something I am not sure of yet. Anyone who calls her website "MADdesigns"(Marcia) has to have some sort of connection to a person who collects any and all songs which are titled "Crazy", the way I do. I am not certain exactly what this says about her except I do sense that she is terrific, unafraid of life, and enthusiastic to the nth degree. I like her as a person a lot! I also know that the book she authored, which is called Marcia DeCoster's Beaded Opulence: Elegant Jewelry Projects with Right Angle Weave, is incredibly amazing to read and should be treasured. We really have some great seed beaders and weavers, and Marcia's abilities are impeccable and SO lush. Her imagination is unstoppable as well. She loves what she does. It shows! She is a leader, not because she wants to be, but because people cannot help but be so attracted to her style they are compelled to follow! I give her *FIVE Tohos* for her brilliant, elegant, RAW!!! creations!

Cyndi Lavin, and also her other site Wildest Dreams Designs

I have known Cyndi for a while and had the pleasure of reviewing part of her recent E book, here: and here:

The interesting thing about Cyndi is she is a true mixed media artist with a strong accent on the seed beads. I put her in this category because she is so accomplished at what she does with seed beads, and ignites her readers' and followers' creativity so fabulously with her vividly colored pieces and her eloquent designs. I love to look at Cyndi's work, and only wish she had sent me one more piece to display on my Jean's List today, but if you go to my reviews of her E book you will see some other gorgeous pieces you can learn to make from her. Her ingenuity and her excitement for what she does makes her a triple AAA beader and such a fantastique!!! contributor to the seed beading world. I find her work completely one of a kind and so fun to look at. Her energy pulses through every piece!

I give her *FIVE Tohos* for her hip, special Cyndi-ness--it is mesmerizing!

Well, this took longer than I thought it would. I have been working on this all day, and I had three other seed beaders planned for this entry. It is my loss that I couldn't include them today, but I hope you enjoyed this blog, entry #2, of The Jean's List --I hope you will come back again and see what I have for you next time! I really hope you like what I wrote!

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