Beading for Beginners - Beading is a Fun, Creative Craft for all Ages:

Beading Craft is a very interesting and self-fulfilling hobby. It is a great craft activity that is fun for people of all ages. Although beading is fun and easy to enjoy, it takes practice. A great number of people are now learning to bead for fun while some are turning this fun hobby into part-time or full-time jobs. Beading is today's focus; actual weaving of beads to create patterns and designs. Beading is the new scrap booking and magazine sales are strong. A great book for beginners to learn to bead is available at Beading. -

Pom-poms and pudge (Detroit Free Press)
His girlfriend thought he was nuts. He had no previous experience -- unless you count lip-synching a pop song once for classmates at Rochester Adams High School. Now he's at Oakland University, and Michal Marynowski is about business law, not show biz. Yet last month, he became a star.

Beading brings out child's creative, entrepreneurial side (The Frederick News-Post)
By Erin Henk News-Post Staff FREDERICK -- Shortly after she arrives home from school, Jessica Lewis, 14, sits down at a table in her family's living room. In front of her is a plastic bucket from which she carefully chooses pink, yellow and green beads.

A Quick Look At Beautiful Native American Bead Jewelry
With Thanksgiving coming up I began thinking about Native American Indians and how they could really be considered the first American bead fanatics! This is a no-brainer to lovers of Southwest art and design and people who live near Native American populations and reservations. Here on the East Coast we ...

Prisoners of Sex (New York Times)
In Egypt and across the Arab world, homosexuality is becoming a political issue. But as gay people become more visible, they could wind up even less free.

Commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month With Pink Beads
One of the many Breast Cancer Awareness Bracelets available at Shanrene.com October is breast cancer awareness month and I thought I would commemorate the month by highlighting some of the ways bead jewelry artists are donating money to finding a cure for breast cancer and raising breast cancer awareness. BreastCancer.org - A ...