The photo below is why I personally do not seed bead. Pretty scary, huh? However, I used a good button for the clasp, a pretty pewter heart from GGS --and it almost saved my effort from complete perdition!!!

I am having a discombobulated week so far (and it is only Monday!!! And some people, like me, think that Monday marks the beginning of the week, no matter what the calendar says. Sunday just isn't the beginning of the week. Face it)!

I want to do a very good job on my second selection of favorite beaders/designers. See my blog here for entry number one of "my favorite jewelry designers".

I need to collect some photos, and explain exactly why I have chosen this first set of favorite designers drawn from the category I have now challenged myself with. It is a very difficult category for me; namely, seed beading.

I cannot seed bead myself, as you can see, above!!!-- so I have to use my "Spidey senses" and gather up all my good judgement as a designer to figure out exactly why each of the bead designers I have selected for this go-around are so very, very good.

I don't rely upon charts, or reviews, or anything but my own good taste when I make up these lists.

I look for visual appeal, a unique tingle up my spine which says, "Stop right there! Look again! You are viewing something terrific!", the pull which cannot be denied which calls out "This is great art!".

It doesn't matter whether it is a painting, a piece of jewelry, or any creation made by man or woman which sighs to me...of beauty. Only in this case, in my entries on this blog, I will be dealing specifically with jewelry.

I have decided to call this series of posts on jewelry designers I love, and all their different types of jewelry which they make, be it metal work, designs using polymer clay, ceramic clay, seed beading, or designing with art beads of glass and / or gem stones

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The Jean's List

the above is a little light humor on my part, and is meant to refer to the Dean's List at any college or University here in the States. Buuuuuut you knew that! However I am quite serious about my intentions. I don't put anyone's name on here if I don't think they are GREAT at what they do. And I will tell you why.

If you don't make The Jean's List the first time, hey! -- don't worry. I have so many designers whom I love, in so many different categories of jewelry design, I will be coming around plenty of times in all of the many categories, repeatedly. I hope you like this week's choices, because I really do.

I will be very proud to present them to you later this week.

jean, creator of The Jean's List