I've been thinking about jewelry-making lately. Not silversmithing, metal clay or fused-glass jewelry. Nothing that requires kilns or torches, drills or bits, stamps or blades. No goggles or fire ...

Jeri Bellini-Bicking wasn’t quite sure how a store full of beads would go over. Indeed, the bead guru from whom she sought advice in early October 1997 told her — in no uncertain terms — that the ...

Belinda Defoor left her job as a mechanical engineer to turn her hobby of beading into a career. Along with her business partner and best friend, Alli Cormier, Ms. Defoor opened I Gotta Bead in Tyler ...