I have been thinking about creating a fan page over at Facebook for some time, and finally, I went for it yesterday and created the eyongs.com Jewelry Making Fan Page.

I’m over there posting fairly regularly about updates on this site any way, so now, I have a specific place to keep Facebook users up to date with anything new and/or interesting going on over here. I’ll be posting about new tutorials, jewelry tips, interesting forum posts, and anything else I think jewelry designers will be interested in.

If you are not on Facebook already, then you are missing out on a lot of fun and a great way to connect with friends and family on-line. It’s free and fairly easy to navigate too. For those who are already Facebook members, please consider becoming a eyongs.com Jewelry Making fan.

In the story of how the four generations of generals of the Yang family defended the nation, many women in the family played an important role. The bravery and resourcefulness of such Yang family heroines as She Saihua, Yang Bajie (Sister Number Eight), Princess Chai and Mu Guiying exceeded that of male generals who st

AD 1760 – 1850
Across: 6.3cm

Finely carved in the round from variegated pale grey and black nephrite as a trotting sow, the details of its ridged back, underbelly with a series of teats, ears and slanted eyes well rendered, its tail flicked onto its left flank, its mouth forming the mouth of the bottle beneath an upturned snout, tourmalin

antique tibetan silver, antique tibet pendant, miao tibet, om pendants and beads

Soft-Flex has news about bead stoppers, those cool coil-looking thingys that you can attach to the end of beading wire while you are stringing so your beads don’t slip off accidentally. Now the come in two sizes as well as lots of colors. For smaller diameter wire, there are now mini-bead stoppers. They are 7mm wide, 7mm high, and 17mm in length compared to the regular size that are 12mm wide, 10mm high, and 20mm in length.

As far as colors, there is a choice of nine different colors for the plastic covers that go on the ends of the bead stoppers. These colors are available in both regular and mini bead stoppers: bright green, dark blue, light blue, orange, pink, purple, red, teal, and yellow. And, hey, if you don’t want the plastic colored comfort tips, you can get bead stoppers without them too.

I know a lot of bead stringers have figured out other ways to keep beads on the cord while stringing (such as tape), but honestly, considering the cost of these little guys (ranging from $4.25 to $6.25 for a pack of 4), I think they are totally worth the extra few dollars.

Portrait of Master Zhang
Fan Qi
Ink and color on silk
216.5*94.8 cm
Palace Museum of Beijing

This painting portrays in full size the Taoist founder Master Zhang. Because of its size, it must have been a central scroll hung in a temple for people to pay tribute to. Master Zhang is Zhang Ling, a native Feng County in Jiangsu Province, the founder

Original by Zhang Xu of Tang Dynasty
Regular script
From a book of rubbings produced during the Song Dynasty
Each page: Length: 19.8cm, Width: 11.8cm

Located on an ancient tomb tablet in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, the stone inscription adopted mostly regular script during the Tang Dynasty.” Lang Guan” is a common term for a court official. The above-mentioned stone i

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The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Andrew shares his feelings about the awesome new Spring issue of “Stringing” magazine.

Cindy Gimbrone aka The Lampwork Diva
Cindy takes a bead shopping trip to the Great White North and almost passes out!

Earthenwood Studio Chronicles
Melanie unleashes her grumpy feelings with a little rant and a bead sale!

A Bead A Day
Have you ever fallen in love with a piece of jewelry? Lisa fell head over heels for a bracelet on a fellow beader’s blog and ended up trading for it!

Barbe Saint John – New Jewelry from Forgotten Artifacts
Bopping Along the ICE Resin Blog hop – Barb shows her resin version of Little Egypt.

Beading Arts
Do you want to try lampworking? Cyndi’s been busy at the torch again.

Carmi’s Art/Life World Carmi uses a candy mold to make a new resin pendant.

Jean Campbell
A mystery package is the catalyst for this creative challenge. Up for it? You could win a free book!

Lorelei’s Blog: Inside the Studio
Lorelei had a chance, a while back (2008) to have a nice little interview with etsy seller, Patina Queen! This is Lorelei’s wire supplier, and she ROCKS!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
jean is breathless with delight when she receives a gift from her friend the artist Lisa Kan!

Art Bead Scene
The Art Bead Scene begins a new monthly feature – the ABS Carnival Blog! Let the Carnival begin!