Puget Sound Bead Festival
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What I blew my paycheck on this week.
by Jen Scabb
Jul 03, 2008
When me was hefting a flagon of grog at this year’s Conference Corsairique Globale in Martinique, this February, me saw many a shiny bead lasses pillaged at the Puget Sound Bead Festival.
Ye wenches might want to check it out next weekend.
More than 125 classes will be offered at th’ 13th Annual Puget Sound Bead Festival July 11-13 by ’round 30 instructors sailing as far as New York and Massachusetts to skilled artists that reside in Pierce County.
Viki Lareau, producer of the bead show and co-owner of The Bead Factory, leaves her mark with a singular goal “to seek out the most innovative new instructors in the industry today.” With the coordinating efforts and help of three other talented wenches — Christine Briggs, Melissa Lovejoy and Carrie Hamm — Lareau — the festival will see success again this year.
Workshops will be offered in every imaginable type of jewelry booty creation and bead working and making techniques. Expect ye to work with metal, glass, clay, silk cording, pewter casting, knot working, and stitching. Ye can create skull earrings, skull bracelets, skull rings, skull necklaces, skull pendants, skull headbands, skull chokers, skull pins, skull beaded scarves and many more skulls. Classes are appropriately geared to different skill levels. Beginners welcome.
[The Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center, July 11-13, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., $7, 1500 Broadway, Tacoma, 1.888.500.BEAD, www.pugetsoundbeadfestival.com]
