Bead Fest Philadelphia!

Bohemian-Knotted Earrings Workshop

Saturday, August 18th

I'll be at Bead Fest Philadelphia this weekend! WHO'S WITH ME? If you are going, I'd love to meet up with you. I'm there all weekend long this year. Friday, August 17th - Sunday, August 19th. 

Here's a list of events where you can find me:
 

Friday, August 17th

Meet The Teachers Event

11:30 am -1:00pm

I have a table at the 'Meet the Teachers' Event. I'll be promoting my workshop, Bohemian Knotted Earrings and I'll have samples, kits and handouts for the class on display. I'll have a few of my bohemian knotted earrings available for purchase as well as, books, kits, tools and Irish waxed linen cord! Come see me and see my earrings in person. There's still spaces left in my class and still time to sign-up at the event!

Friday, August 17th
Knotting Demonstration at the Demo area on the show floor
3:15 pm

I'll be demonstrating some of my knotting techniques to make my earrings. Come see how it's done in person.

Saturday, August 18th
Bohemian Knotted Earrings Workshop
Room #20
8:00 am - 11:00 am

Students will learn basic knotting techniques to make three pairs of stylish earrings. Techniques covered in class will included: lark's head knot, half-hitch knot, overhand knot and how to use knotting tweezers for precise knotting.

Online registration for classes is now closed BUT, you can still registrar at the event. There's still time and a few spaces left! 

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry BOOK SIGNING! Saturday, August 18th

Primitive Earth Beads Booth #528, 530, 532

1:00 pm -2:00pm

Meet me and Lorelei! Get your copy of our book, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry signed by BOTH of us. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the Primitive Earth Beads booth #528-532 all weekend long.

Please come and join us! See you there this weekend.

Ornamentea: Part 1-Book Signing & Make n' Take

I'm back from my whirlwind trip to Raleigh, NC to visit Ornamentea! Last Friday, Ornamentea hosted a book signing for our book, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry. Then, on Saturday, I taught my Bohemian Knotted Earrings Workshop. What a great time. First of all, shop owner, Cynthia Deis was the most amazing, gracious host. I'm so thrilled she wanted to have Lorelei and I there. She runs an incredible bead shop and after chatting with Cynthia and seeing her shop for myself in person, I have a much deeper appreciation for her and her business. I was blown away. What a gem of a store. I really don't know how she gets customers to leave when it's time to close up and go home. It must be difficult because Ornamentea has a wonderful inventory of anything a beader or crafter could possibly want and everything is displayed so beautifully from ceiling to floor! Plus, helpful, friendly staff, great bead events and truck shows and cool classes. I can't say enough about how wonderful this shop is. You must visit.

This table is in the middle of the shop when you walk in. It is brimming with all kinds of treasures. Beads, buttons, crepe cord, spools of linen, silk ribbons, jewelry and even chocolate! Yum. Copies of our book are on display here along with a fun box of fibers and beads to go with it. One lucky person who came to our book signing on Friday night won this stash of goodies.

Along with the book signing event on Friday night, Ornamentea hosted a Make n' Take project from the book. The chosen project was my Leather Ruffle Hoops. Most of the supplies I used in the original earrings came from the store. I helped some of the staff set up the work table for the make n' take before the evening got started. Above, I am showing Jordan how to make the earrings. I was lucky enough to have her as my assistant for the project that night.

Here I am helping Lil with her make n' take earrings. Lil was actually the lucky winner of the fun box of fibers Ornamentea gave away at the book signing later that evening! Lucky girl.

Here's Jordan running the second round of the make n' take project. She did a fantastic job of making sure everything went smoothly. I'm so thrilled with how it all went. Everyone seemed to really be enjoying making the earrings. It was busy the entire night, but I did get to chat with a few after they finished their earrings. They loved them and most everyone I saw wore their earrings out the door.

Here's Lorelei and me at our signing table. On the table, we have a few of the original jewelry pieces from the book. We're talking to Amy, one of the lovely gals who came that night. She was really sweet and cute. It was so nice chatting with her and absolutely everyone who stopped by. And speaking of some others, Lori and I got to meet some special friends we know from the bead blogging community. The amazing LeAnn of Summers Studio. We have 3 of LeAnn's handmade components incorporated into projects throughout the book. We also got to meet the lovely Marcie of La Bella Joya! It was such a pleasure to meet both of these ladies in person. I've admired each of them for years now. Marcie actually came the following day on Saturday for my Bohemian Knotted Earrings class. I'll be talking more about that in another upcoming post. Stay tuned for Ornamentea: Part 2-My Class!

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry

now available at Ornamentea.com!

Mark Your Calendars!

I will be at Ornamentea in Raleigh, N.C. on July 27th & 28th! The shop is hosting a book signing and Make n' Take on Friday, July 27th from 6-8pm. Then, on Saturday, July 28th from 10:30am-1:30pm, I'll be teaching my Bohemian Knotted Earrings workshop. I'm so excited for these upcoming events!

Friday, July 27th

What: Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry 

book signing and Make n' Take project

 Where: Ornamentea

509 N. West St.

Raleigh, NC 27603

When: Friday night, July 27th 

6-8pm

Click Here for more info. 

Leather Ruffle Hoops 

 Join me Friday night and make one of my earring projects from Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry called, Leather Ruffle Hoops. Chat with me about incorporating fibers and cords into your jewelry. I will have several original jewelry designs from the book that you can see in person. Feel free to ask me questions about beading and the process of writing the book with my co-author, Lorelei Eurto. Purchase a copy of the book that evening or bring your own copy and I'll be happy to sign it for you!

Saturday, July 28th

 

Bohemian Knotted Earrings

What: Bohemian Knotted Earrings Workshop

 Where: Ornamentea

509 N. West St.

Raleigh, NC 27603

When: Saturday, July 28th 10:30am-1:30pm

Price: $65

Click Here to registrar. 

Class description:

Learn simple knotting techniques to make a trio of bohemian chic earrings! Using waxed linen cord, you will learn 3 different ways to attach colorful beads to a ring component.

Students will learn basic knotting techniques to make three pairs of stylish earrings. Techniques covered in class will included: lark's head knot, half-hitch knot, overhand knot and how to use knotting tweezers for precise knotting. Using waxed linen cord, students will learn 3 ways to use knots to attach beads to a ring component. Students will have the following color choices for each pair of earrings: red, orange, green, turquoise and blue.Variations on the three designs made in class will also be discussed, so student will be able to expand on the techniques they have learned. 

I'd love to see you in class! Hope to see at Ornamentea!

Giveaway Winner and After Party!

The winner of the signed by both of us copy of Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry, PLUS+ 2 of my EARRING KITS to make the earring projects from the pages inside is...

Theresa Fosdick of Thoughtful Notions

Congratulations!

Theresa, I will be contacting you soon to get your mailing address.

Thank you to all who stopped by the blog hop party this passed weekend. I hope you enjoyed all the looks inside the book, the fabulous giveaways, and the thoughtful book reviews by our participants. And speaking of them, I am just floored by their incredible jewelry inspired by the book. I saw some spectacular designs, the creativity in this community is amazing! If you missed any of it this weekend, just go to the Beading Daily blog to see the blog tour list and check out the posts by our party participants. You won't be disappointed.

And, don't forget about the Polyvore Style Challenge! There's still plenty of time to enter. The contest ends on July 13th. Remember, you have a chance to win one of our original necklace designs from the book. PLUS, if you did not win a copy of the book during the weekend, you still have TWO more chances to win with the Polyvore Challenge. The style boards with the most 'likes' and re-pins will win complimentary copies of Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry, so get designing! I want to see more style boards. They are SO fun to create. Here are the two I created one more time, because I love looking at them... 

Bohemian Summer by erinsjewelry featuring printed tank tops

Garden Party by erinsjewelry featuring flower sandals

NOW, how would you style these necklaces? 

Show me what you can do!

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry Blog Party & Giveaway!

Hi and welcome to the Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry book weekend celebration! I'm Erin Siegel, co-author of the book. Thank you so much for stopping by today. Lorelei and I are extremely excited to share our book with you. We are truly passionate about what we created. We live, breathe and eat the jewelry that's in this book, so I hope you will find it to be inspiring, as well as a helpful resource for creating your own unique jewelry.

We have thirty talented jewelry designers, bead artists and crafters of all kinds helping us celebrate our book's launch. Please join in on the fun! There will be something special for you at every blog. You will see some incredible projects, read their thoughts on our book and get plenty of chances to win a free copy of the book and/or a goodie bag of supplies. Our publisher, Interweave Press is hosting our party and it all begins at the Beading Daily Blog. Please stop by over there to visit our party participants if you haven't already and don't forget to enter the cool Polyvore Style Challenge going while you are there, too. Posts will be appearing from our friends throughout the weekend, so make yourselves comfortable and join us all weekend long!

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Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon and Cords

 $13.77

The book is on sale now at Interweave.com

This is a special price for the blog party, it's basically at wholesale price.

I'm not kidding, this is almost what Lorelei and I paid for our own books!

I seriously doubt you will see it at a better price.

Also, the E-BOOK is now on sale for $10.77.

Okay, now it's onto the GIVEAWAY!

I'm giving away a signed by both of us copy of the book, PLUS+ 2 of my EARRING KITS to make projects from the pages inside! The kits include all beads, findings and materials to make some of my favorite earrings. All you will need to do is follow the instructions inside the book to make the earrings.

Triple Loop Earrings (from the cover)

 Triple Loop Earring Kit
Kit includes all beads, findings and materials to make 1 pair of Triple Loop earrings.
Greek crimson leather, amethyst glass rounds, and all findings and components are Vintaj Natural Brass.

Copper Antiquity Earrings

 Copper Antiquity Earring Kit
 Kit includes all beads, findings and materials to make 1 pair of Copper Antiquity earrings.
Turquoise rounds, Chocolate brown Irish waxed linen cord and artisan copper components handmade by Miss Fickle Media.

To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment on this post by Monday, June 25th.

 I will randomly draw one lucky winner on Tuesday, June 26th.

Thank you for stopping by and GOOD LUCK!

If you'd like to purchase one of my earring kits, they are now available in my

ETSY SHOP

Now, go to Beading Daily to enjoy the rest of the blog tour!

Polyvore Style Challenge and Book Blog Tour!

Love fashion? Love jewelry? Then, you will be head-over-heels for the Beading Daily.com Polyvore Style Challenge featuring jewelry designs from our book, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry! How cool is that?! I'm super excited about this challenge. You are going to have sooo much fun with this. All you have to do is make a fashion style board using one of our necklaces for your inspiration. I created a couple different looks featuring the two necklaces in the challenge just to give you an idea:

'Bohemian Summer' 

Design board featuring Lorelei's Pompidou necklace from the cover. 

I couldn't decide between jeans or khaki shorts...

Bohemian Summer by erinsjewelry featuring a fringe shoulder bag

'Garden Party'

Design board featuring my In the Garden necklace.

Garden Party by erinsjewelry featuring resin jewelry

Oh. My. Gosh. Are you going crazy for this, yet? Well, hold on because Lorelei is giving away her Pompiduo necklace and I'm giving away my In the Garden necklace to two lucky winners of the Polyvore style challenge. Yep, that's right, you get a chance to win one of the ORIGINAL necklaces from the book. I can not wait to see your fashion boards. So, get styling! Visit the Beading Daily.com blog to find out how to enter.

But wait! Before you go, I have another exciting announcement...We're having a book blog party celebration and you're invited. Please join us this weekend, June 23rd-24th for a blog hop celebrating the release of  

 Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry

 The party will kick-off tomorrow at Beadingdaily.com. You won't want to miss it. There will be lots of giveaways and goodies to grab. Plus, you'll get to hear what everyone thinks about our book. And speaking of that, if you happen to have a copy or you downloaded the e-book and like it, please feel free to leave us a review on Amazon.com. I know a few of you have already and we appreciate your comments so much. I've read each review more times that I want to admit to! It really lifts me up and makes me feel so good. Thank you, all!

The Bead and Button Show

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon and Cords

 

This Friday, I will be getting on an airplane and heading to Milwaukee for my first Bead and Button Show. I'm thrilled to be able to go this year. What's even better, Lorelei will be there too and we will have our book on display and for sale at the show! This will be our biggest bead event with our book. I'm excited and nervous and a little overwhelmed, but most of all, I'm looking forward to seeing my favorite bead people and meeting some of them for the first time in person.

Meet me and Lorelei and get your copy of Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry SIGNED by both of us!

The Bead & Button Show

June 9th-10th 

Frontier Airlines Center

400 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Milwaukee, WI 53203

www.beadandbuttonshow.com

Earthenwood Studio Booth, #1227

Melanie Brooks of Earthenwood Studio graciously offered to accommodate us and our book at her booth. We will be selling and signing copies of Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry. *This will be a rare opportunity to get a copy signed by BOTH of us in person!* I hope you will want to take advantage. 

 

To go along with the book, I will also be selling 2 Earring KITS to make projects from the pages inside! Yep, that's right, I'll be debuting kits including all the beads, findings and materials to make my favorite earrings from the book. All you need is your tools and the instructions from the book to make the earrings!

Triple Loop Earrings

(from the cover!)

 Triple Loop Earring Kit.

Kit includes all beads, findings and materials to make 1 pair of "Triple Loop" earrings.

 (Greek leather, amethyst glass rounds and all findings are Vintaj Natural Brass.)

$20

Copper Antiquity Earrings

 Copper Antiquity Earring Kit.

Kit includes all beads, findings and materials to make 1 pair of "Copper Antiquity" earrings.

(Turquoise rounds, Irish waxed linen cord and artisan copper components handmade by Miss Fickle Media.)

$20

 

Pick up a copy of Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry and a few kits and you could make two pairs of chic earrings to wear or give as gifts before you leave the show!

  

If you can't make it to the show, and you are interested in a kit, just let me know. I'll hold one for you!

If you are going to the show,

please stop by booth #1227. We would love to meet you.

See you there!

Book Party at Riverwalk Bead Shop and Gallery

You may have heard me mention the Riverwalk Bead Shop and Gallery a few times before. This is the place where I really got going making jewelry. Riverwalk opened it's doors in early 2006, in Amesbury, Massachusetts. We had just moved to Amesbury the previous year. Discovering the new shop and meeting owner, Nancy Plante was one of the biggest turning points in my life and jewelry-making career.

I remember my husband and I were driving through the center of Amesbury on a cold Winter day. As we drove past the old train station building, I glanced up. I spotted a banner hanging about the door. It read, 'Riverwalk Beads'. I kept starring...and I tried to look back behind us as the car drove past. "Did that just say BEADS?!?!" I said. Good thing I wasn't driving because I think I would have crashed into something! I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. I had just been thinking to myself that I really wished there was a local bead store or bead society or some beading community that I could somehow be apart of. (It would be another few years before I discovered the online community.) And, here there was a bead shop opening up in the same town I was currently living in. This was amazing!

As we were out and about that day, I could stop thinking about what I had seen. "It didn't look like it was open yet when we drove by." I thought. As soon as we got home, I scrambled to my computer and googled 'Riverwalk Beads' to see if I could find out any information. I found a starter website and a grand-opening date!!! OH, I was going to be there with bells on. That was for sure. I was so psyched and excited up about this new bead shop opening, I felt like a crazed, crazy person.

The Riverwalk Bead Shop and Gallery - Bead side.

The Riverwalk Bead Shop and Gallery - Artist Gallery side.

The grand-opening day finally came and I was there. I was in awe, as I walked into the interior of this shop. It's one big, beautiful space! It used to be an old, abandoned train depot. Owner, Nancy Plante worked her magic, put loads of love into the building and returned it to it's former glory. It's a huge, wide open space with high ceilings and gorgeous wood floors. The walls are painted red with local art, handmade wall hangings and bead strands all over them. It's half bead shop, half artisan gallery. There is art, beads, jewelry and inspiring handcrafted items everywhere you look.

Being a lover of beads, jewelry and handcrafts, you can image how over-stimulated I was! To say I was overwhelmed, seems like an understatement. It was a good overwhelmed, though. Overwhelmed with joy! The shop was something extra special and I was determined to be apart of this incredible place.

Over the course of the next few months, I showed up at the store a LOT. I got to know Nancy very well. She knew I loved the shop and wanted to be involved, but she couldn't afford to hire another person at the time. Finally, she offered to let me teach some beading workshops even though I'd never taught before. I taught my first beading classes at the shop in the Summer of 2006. Soon after I had a few teaching experiences under my belt, Nancy hired me to work at the shop part-time. I worked at Riverwalk for 4 years and I taught a good number of jewelry-making classes and private lessons during my time there. (I left the shop in 2010, after I had my daughter, Nora.) I built many great relationships with other artists and I met so many wonderful people there.

Me and Lorelei, July 2009

In fact, speaking of meeting wonderful people, The Riverwalk Bead Shop is the place I met Lorelei Eurto in person for the first time in July of 2009. You can read about our first meeting on this post. Then, Lorelei and her husband, Joe returned again for another visit the following year, in July 2010. You can read about our second meeting here. This is when the collaboration on our book, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry all began!

Everything has come full circle. I'm going back to the place where is all started. I'm going back to my jewelry-making roots. It feels like I'm returning 'home' to celebrate one of the most significant events of my entire life, the release of Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry! It means so much to me to share this moment with my biggest supporters and dearest friends. I can not think of anything more fitting than celebrating the book's launch at the Riverwalk Bead Shop and Gallery with all my friends, family and anyone else who would like to party! ;) I can not imagine having it any other way.

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon and Cords

Save the date! 

When: Saturday, May 26th 2012

Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm

Where: The Riverwalk Bead Shop and Gallery

32 Elm Street

Amesbury, Ma. 01913

978-388-3499

www.riverwalkbeads.com

 Riverwalk Bead Shop and Gallery on Facebook!

On May 26th, the Riverwalk Bead Shop and Gallery will be hosting the very first event for our book, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry, written by me and my co-author Lorelei Eurto. Come meet me, get your book signed, enjoy some refreshments and see some of the Jewelry from the book in person! Select pieces will be on display and for sale. If you are local or (or not!) and you are in the area, please come and celebrate with me! It will be a blast!

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry e-book!!!

Hello friends, I have some really super-duper EXCITING news! We just received word that our book, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon and Cords is now available as an e-book version at Interweave.com!!! This was a total surprise! Yes, that's right, you can download it this very instant and be making jewelry projects from it over the weekend. If you just can not wait another month for the print version to become available, click here to download your digital copy now. I hope you can't wait, because I'm so anxious for you all to see it! Please let us know what you think, Lorelei and I are dying for some feedback from the beading community.

If do happen to download the e-book and you have questions about any of the content or techniques presented, please feel free to email me about it. I'm more than happy to help you if you need it now that the book content is readily available. Thank you for all your support for this project and I hope you do enjoy it immensely!

Interview at Beading Daily!

 I am just thrilled to pieces that editor, Jennifer VanBenschoten gave me the opportunity to answer a few questions for the Beading Daily community regarding our new book, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon and Cords. Read the full interview with me over on the Beading Daily blog!

Sneak Peek!

I thought some might like to see this.
Interweave Press recently released this preview of our upcoming book.
Here's a sneak peek look! Enjoy and let me know what you think!
Interweave.comhttp://www.interweavestore.com/Jewelry-Making/Books/Bohemian-Inspired-Jewelry.html

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