 | Mixed-Media Mosaics: Techniques and Projects Using Polymer Clay Tiles, Beads & Other Embellishments by Laurie Mika
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $6.11 If you've ever seen Laurie Mika's work, you know how her visual sense and ideas could amp up your need to bead.
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 | The Art of Bead Embroidery: Techniques, Designs & Inspirations by Heidi Kummli
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $14.29 Heidi Kummli writes a book at last! Her jaw-dropping, prize-winning works of beauty make this a treasure. MUST HAVE!!
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 | Creating Crystal Jewelry with Swarovski: 65 Sparkling Designs with Crystal Beads and Stones by Laura McCabe
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.00 Laura McCabe is another star in the firmament of bead heaven. She's meticulous, imaginative, creative, and eccentric in her approach to her craft.
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 | Designer Bead Embroidery: 150 Patterns and Complete Techniques by Kenneth D King
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.78 Gorgeous book, fun to learn from. When I looked inside at a book store, my brain fizzed like a shaken-up champagne bottle and I started to squeal. I WANT it!!
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 | Beader's Stash: Designs from America's Favorite Bead Shops by Laura Levaas
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $7.00 This one is dang fun and full of good stuff! You'll be sorry if you don't buy it.
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 | Bead Embroidery The Complete Guide: Bring New Dimension to Classic Needlework by Jane Davis
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $9.44 Saw this book and fell in love. For bead embroiderers, it is a REQUIREMENT.
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 | Crystal Lace Necklace Patterns, Bead Weaving Technique by Sandra D. Halpenny
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $71.14 Go light and innocent or dark and mysterious.
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 | Getting Started with Seed Beads (Getting Started series) by Dustin Wedekind
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $11.72 Dustin Wedekind knows, so we'd be smart to listen. Seed-beaders have their own obstacles; he's groovy and very helpful. Eliminates those learning-on-your-own frustrations.
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 | Best of Bead&Button Magazine: Seed Bead Savvy (Best of Bead & Button Magazine) by Lesley Weiss
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.75 It may be the best from old issues of Bead & Button magazine, but who has time to go through all those back issues? Put it all in one place - saves time! This one has the most enthusiastic reviews I've seen in a long, long time, and I MUST have it.
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 | Beadwork Creates Beaded Beads: 30 Designs (Beadwork Creates series)
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.94 Beaded beads can easily become an addiction....you start to imagine them in every color and texture combo. They make up quickly for instant gratification. You can make endless variations on a pattern easily. This book is a fantastic place to begin your beaded-bead journey.
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 | Gail Crossman Moore's Borosilicate Beads of Nature by Jim Kervin
Buy used from: $18.95 Gail Crosman Moore is, without exception, the first booth I visit at any bead show. Her work is utterly amazing.
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 | Simply Pearls: Designs for Creating Perfect Pearl Jewelry by Nancy Alden
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.22 I'm not a big pearl fan, but this book got me very excited about them. Fabulous for your beading library, lots of different ideas and inspiration launchpads.
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 | Art Making, Collections, and Obsessions: An Intimate Exploration of the Mixed-Media Work and Collections of 35 Artists by Lynne Perrella
Buy new: $17.81 / Used from: $17.36 This book will refresh and feed your beading muse when it feels overwhelmed or tired. Trust me. Gorgeous and inspiring.
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 | The Art of Resin Jewelry: Layering, Casting, and Mixed Media Techniques for Creating Vintage to Contemporary Designs by Sherri Haab
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $9.22 This book is such a necessary item!!! Endlessly innovative, full of practical tips and techniques...Sherri Haab rocks.
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 | Costume Jewelry for Haute Couture by Florence Muller
Buy new: $50.62 / Used from: $38.25 Eye candy PLUS.
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 | 500 Bracelets: An Inspiring Collection of Extraordinary Designs (500 Series) by Lark Books
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.40 Incredibly mind-stretching. WARNING: Many of the bracelets in this book are unwearable. That's not what the book is about -- wearing pretty things. It's about inspiration and imagination as applied to a particular piece of jewelry.
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