Artist: Robin Humphrey Website and blog: RobinCharlotte RobinCharlotte blog My name is Robin Humphrey and I am designer from Los Angeles and my jewelry line, RobinCharlotte features real recycled fish, seahorses and insects embedded in one-of-a-kind accessories. I collect the fish as they naturally pass away at local pet shops. i am a gradute of the Rhode Island School of Design and launched my jewelry company in 2008 after working for several years in the apparel and accessories industry

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Jewelry artist: Robin Humphrey

I wasn't able to make the Bead&Button Show this year due to my June 5 wedding, however some hobbies are so engaging, so all-encompassing, that they cannot help but seep into every area of your life. I think we can all agree that beading is one of those hobbies, and my wedding was proof of it. The week before the wedding, my Bead&Button , BeadStyle , and Art Jewelry coworkers threw Jake and I a celebratory potluck

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A beaded wedding

I’ve noticed several articles, both in print and online, that have been bashing the so-called celebrity designers. I’m not talking about designs that arise from famous fashion houses, but entire lines that some celebrity has “created” for (Walmart, Target, KMart, fill in the blank). Whether they are supposedly creating perfume, fashion, or jewelry, do any of us really truly believe that they are doing much more than lending their names to a line?

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Celebrity “designers”

Laura McCabe’s Embellished Beadweaving: Jewelry Lavished with Fringe, Fronds, Lacework & More by Laura McCabe Beadmaille: Jewelry with Bead Weaving & Metal Rings by Cindy Thomas Pankopf See my review! Crystal Brilliance: Making Designer Jewelry with Crystal Beads by Anna Elizabeth Draeger I’ll be doing a giveaway with this book next week…stay tuned!! The Absolute Beginners Guide: Stringing Beaded Jewelry by Karin Buckingham Easy Beading Vol. 6: Fast

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Recent publications: May 2010

For my fashionistas, I found a treat for you! Emma Sibbles has taken up her pen (or more likely, her keyboard) and has scanned the decade from 2000 to 2009 to find the winners and losers for us in the fashion wars. Her observation that hit me hardest was concerning the ever-quickening pace of the fashion cycle. Thanks largely to the internet – and also to a billion cable channels – we see, fall in love, buy, and wear the latest and greatest so much faster than in the past

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The fashion decade in review

Pantone has a bright and pretty spring palette out for this year that will easily take you right through summer. Featuring beautiful turquoise as the color of the year, the color forecasting company has added a soft tomato red, several soft pinks and corals, delicate grays and violets, and a fabulous bright blue.

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Spring/Summer 2010 color forecast

For almost a year, I've been working on making wedding jewelry for my June 5th wedding. And while I was learning the ins and outs of designing jewelry, I was writing a series on the experience, a series meant to guide and hold the hands of newbie jewelry designers.

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BrideStyle: 10 weeks to designing your own wedding jewelry

NEW TODAY — EVERY PROJECT from our VintageStyle Jewelry collection — available individually! Contributors include Diane Hyde , Diane Fitzgerald , Anna Elizabeth Draeger , Julia Gerlach , Lynne Soto , Addie Kidd , Brenda Schweder , Joyce Barnette , Sandra Graves , and more! Visit search projects for the following titles or click on each title to go directly to the project: NECKLACES Prim and proper Bewitching braids Nostalgic netting Nouveau style Crystals on chain Floral garden necklace Regal impressions Wrap it up Cameo appearances BRACELETS Buttons & beads Fancy filigree All buttoned up Peyote patches Era of opulence EARRINGS Cup-chain conundrum Victorian inspiration PENDANTS Modern heirlooms My monogram Deco deja vu RINGS Cocktail hour

BeadMaille and Beadpunk — we've got these two new jewelry looks covered in Bead&Button 's February issue, on sale now. Cindy Pankopf's “Chain of rings,” p. 30, links small rings and chains of seed beads with decorative metal rings for a stylish necklace that looks good with blue jeans or a business outfit.

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New beading techniques for a new year!

After several false starts, I finally came up with a beaded necklace style that suited the gorgeous Deco Scarab pendant that my friend Melanie Brooks sent me to play with. If I do another of these, I will probably make one change, and that is to look for size 6/0 seed beads for the base strands that are rounder, less cylindrical. The rounder shaped beads generally sit together in a smoother line than the cylinders, oddly enough

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Deco Scarab necklace

Our October issue just hit the newsstands, and it has all-new peyote, herringbone, crossweave, bead embroidery, right-angle weave, and brick stitch bracelets, necklaces, and pendants for the holidays! PLUS, we have an easy chain bracelet, a simple strung necklace, crystal rings, and a netted ornament — each of which you can whip up while watching your favorite show. Claymaker features a very fun retro bracelet … you'll love it if you've seen “Julie & Julia.” And, you'll want to get to know Jennifer Morris, who does beautiful work in polymer clay.

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Look inside October’s Bead&Button