beAd Infinitum's Sparkling Symmetry
Vol. 4, No. 3; December 22, 2010

Happy holidays! May the beading muses smile upon you in this festive season.

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beAd infinitum's Design Team
Design Team Gallery

We enthusiastically welcome six talented artists to beAd Infinitum's first Design Team. They are (alphabetically):

Cynthia Newcomer Daniel, Paso Robles, California
Sharon Erwine, Eaton Rapids Township, Michigan
Nicki (Immer-wieder-Perlen), Allerheiligen im Mürztal/Styria/Austria
Onye Ndika, Indianapolis, Indiana
Nancy Peterson, Effort, Pennsylvania
Sharon Wagner, Sterling Heights, Michigan

These designers have produced beautiful beadwork beyond our expectations. We have so enjoyed featuring their beadwork in our Design Team Gallery and on our Facebook page.

If you are interested in participating on beAd Infinitum's Design Team, keep an eye out for this newsletter in Spring 2011, when we will most likely post our next call. Here is the past call for applications, with a detailed description of the duties of a design team member.

New Kits

Flower Ring
The new Electric Uranium Flower Ring kits include uranium, or Vaseline glass, which glows under black light. Check it out!

Sea Star Pendant
The beautiful Pink Marbled Sea Star Pendant Kit will be available shortly.

More Eye-Candy

Gwen's Gallery
Gwen's vibrant felted cuffs are perfect for bead embroidered embellishment. We put a set of mossy green felt cuffs in her gallery to show off this new facet of her work with textiles. If you want to bead a cuff of your own, visit Gwen's Etsy shop for an array of her handmade felted cuffs, ready for you to embellish.

Next month, Gwen's work will be displayed in an Exhibition of Mathematical Art, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, in New Orleans. You can see her Ionic Polyhedra and Ionic Mini's at the link above or in Gwen's Gallery.

Florence's Gallery
Florence has added a few pendants to her gallery. The Herringbone Petal Pendant is the culmination of a design project which she documented on her FlorenceTurnour.blogspot.com.

Cindy's Gallery
Don't miss the new work in Cindy's Gallery at beAd Infinitum. For example, check out Cindy's stunning Garden Necklace and Earrings set combining the Time Machine Beaded Bead with her new Pagoda Beaded Charms (look for the tutorial in Cindy's Etsy shop.)

Copyright

We have changed part of our copyright statement to better support artists who wish to sell beadwork made from our designs. The new blurb is below; please visit http://www.beadinfinitum.com/Copyright_Statement.html for the rest of our copyright policies.

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Angel Policy: Selling finished jewelry made from our patterns

beAd Infinitum is proud to be an Angel Company (borrowing the term from the rubber stamping community). This means we support artists who sell their artwork. Please feel free to make lots of our beadwork designs for sale, so you can make a bunch of money (and buy more patterns). We ask the following:

• Please don't mass produce beadwork made with our designs. For example 50 of identical copies of an item would constitute mass production.
• Please don't hire or pay other people to make beadwork with our designs to sell under your name or the name of your company.
• Whenever possible, please include a reference to beAd Infinitum when the work is displayed for in public. In particular, when you display work on the internet, please include a phrase like, "This necklace includes designs from beAd Infinitum," or "This necklace features a Double Rose Window beaded bead from beAd Infinitum." Of course a link to our site would be appreciated. Similarly, such a phrase could be displayed at a craft show or in a gallery, if it is not inappropriate.
• Remember that we retain copyright of the instructions and patterns themselves, as stated elsewhere on the copyright page; our Angel Policy does not afford you the right to distribute our instructions or rewrite and distribute instructions of your own for the designs.

If you make something wonderful, please consider sending us a picture, or posting on beAd Infinitum's wall on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/beadinfinitum). We do enjoy seeing the innovative ways people incorporate our designs into their work. We will, of course, not use images you send in any way without your permission.

And now a word from this month's muse, Oscar Wilde:
"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Happy Holidays!
-Florence and Gwen

beAd Infinitum, P.O. Box 8074, Long Beach, CA 90808
www.beAdInfinitum.com

Here is the call we put out for our first design team, which explains the duties and benefits of membership.