Rating  - Gorgeous Glass
If you are into glass beads, Stephanie is the authority. The projects are beautiful eye candy that make your mouth water and you want to move to Maine to stalk her perfect artist family for inspiration. Her ideas are easy to follow but the results seem far from simple- intricate projects that look like they take a master to make.
Rating - A True Teacher Shares Her Beading Talents and Her Passion for Glass
Stephanie Sersich's colorful book, Designing With Glass Beads, is easy to love! It has so much going for it. First, she gives you a great history of glass, very complete and well done, something which I enjoyed and found thoroughly fascinating. She also shares "her world" throughout the book, which means that you get to understand in a profound way why her glass designs are so beautiful. She comes from a super family of artists who live in Maine. In fact her very first quote which "taught me something" I hadn't thought of in that particular way before is, "Beading is a miniature game of organizing space". She says in the book she got this organizational talent from her father. You also "meet" her remarkable mother, an artist as well, and other friends such as the great glass artist Dustin Tabor.
However, even more than this, you get to play in Stephanie's exuberant world of glass! She is famous for her spectacularly beautiful Spiny Knotted Bracelet. The instuctions for this great bracelet, and for so many other beautiful pieces, will really thrill you if you love her style. They are all in this book! She has a great talent for using wire, ribbon, types of sewing, waxed linen and other bases for her jewelry pieces which enchance each one's unique and energetic beauty.
I particularly liked her Wispy Necklace (such a collection of beads and fringe!), her Tinkerbell Drop Earrings, which are simple but hip, and so many more! She is so good at what she does! It is a very exciting book to read and to have. There are all kinds of glass beads. There is lots and lots of color to entrance you as well.
There are also lots of small extras which are pleasing, such as the way she writes about what it is like to look forward to summer in Maine (an area which is pretty cold a lot of the time), and then ties that in to her signature lampworked starfish which she makes. She even shows the very first starfish she ever torched. It is sweet and pretty good!
She offers other pages of extra info like "The Art of Lampwork" which shows her making her glass beads as she explains in writing exactly what she is doing.
I like the book as much for the jewelry as for the information she shares. She is definitely an excellent teacher and a fascinating person. Her beads are beautiful and her jewelry is absolutely worth knowing how to make.
Rating - A Must Have Book
I have taken one of Stephanie's classes and love her work. The instructions are very clear and the photographs are outstanding. This book would be a great addition to your library.
Rating - Not your average beading book!
This book is full of unique, creative beaded jewelry projects as well as Stephanie's helpful comments on color, texture and design. Great for all levels. If you want to expand your beadwork skills, this is the book for you!
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