The Story of Nomge
One theme I try to address in this blog is how “big history” (the kind you study in school) and “little history” (personal and family history) affect the creative process. The […]
Category Archives: Africa
Desert Jewels
I have always been fascinated by the jewelry of the African continent. Each region (I hesitate to say country because those are mostly artificial creations of colonization) has its own […]
I’m a Fool for Faux
I love to make faux beads from polymer clay and have been obsessed with it lately. Here are four of my favorite books. They contain plenty of recipes for making […]
Make Your Own Clasps!
It took a long time for this necklace to come together. My friend Jeanne gave me the amber after her husband died. I got the coral, turquoise and Balinese beads […]
Goddess!
How are people inspired by history, landscape, myth and memory? On a cold night in November, some lucky people got to peek into the mind of fashion designer Mary McFadden […]
Beading from Las Cruces to Cape Town
It’s a long way from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Philadelphia where I live, and an even longer trip from Philadelphia to Cape Town, South Africa. I like to bead […]
African Beads
To me, the words Africa and beads go together like Romulus and Remus, Baskin and Robbins or Damon and Runyon. In fact, I started working in polymer clay because I […]
Zulu Beadwork
When I traveled to South Africa recently, I was fascinated to learn it has a myriad of ethnic groups and eleven official languages. The Zulu are the largest ethnic group […]
