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 |  Leslie Rogalski - BeadSmith Creative Director Seed Bead Specialist
Leslie Rogalski (aka Sleepless Beader™) is the creative director for The BeadSmith and a BeadSmith Inspiration Squad designer. Specializing in (but not limited to) beadwork, she has been an editor for leading bead magazines, a designer for several bead companies, and is widely recognized for You Tube and Facebook videos as well as TV appearances on jewelry making programs in the US and UK. Leslie sells her work, kits and tutorials at leslierogalskibeadworks.com. Follow her as "Doodlebeader" on Instagram, and follow her FB page Leslie Rogalski Beadworks, too! |
 | Leslie A. Pope - BeadSmith Creative Designer Seed Bead Specialist
Leslie Pope, a.k.a. “Twisted Sistah Beads”, has a PASSION for BEADS and FIBER! Leslie became Twisted Sistah when she opened her traveling/web-based bead business in 2002 and hasn’t looked back since. Her business is devoted to BEADS and FIBER and offers a wide range of seed beads, threads and supplies that support the creation of BEADED WEARABLE ART. In the subsequent years, Leslie has become a nationally known teacher and had her designs grace the cover and pages of several national and international magazines. Her role as Creative Designer at Beadsmith has allowed Leslie to extend her beading knowledge to a large audience via Facebook Live and YouTube videos. You can follow Leslie on Facebook and Instagram as “Twisted Sistah Beads”. |
 | Paul Ricks Ricks Beading Loom Specialist Paul is the inventor of The Ricks Beading Loom, exclusively distributed by The BeadSmith. He has created many designs and kits to be made on his loom and is also a frequent guest on JTV's Jewel School. Paul frequently travels the country to present classes and demonstrations using his invention. The Ricks Beading Loom is the loom with only two threads to weave back in when your project is finished. The first chapter of "THE RICKS LOOMATIKS" has recently been founded in New Jersey and more are being started every day! Paul is a retired Police Officer (Deputy Chief of Police - Colorado Springs Police Department) and also a former professional musician. He and his wife, Charlene, (and their two cats) currently divide their time between their summer home in the beautiful Black Forest region of Colorado and their winter home in the desert of Casa Grande, Arizona. |
 |  Eva Kalman Jewelry Design Specialist Eva Kalman is a Hungarian Bead Artist best known for her numerous intricate beaded beads and rings. A self-taught beader whose unique designs has earned her a spot as a renowned teacher in her country as well as abroad and been featured in countless magazines and exhibitions. Her work has participated in many competitions, with her most recent entry finishing in the top 6 of The Battle of the Beadsmith 2013. She started to make jewellery in 1992. Has been teaching since 2004 when she published her first book and instructions for a magazine. Since then she has her own pages in that magazine and published more then 65 instructions so far. She had a lot of extremely talented students over the years, who are now teachers and well known artists themselves recognized by the beading community around the globe! She uses almost every beading technique and combines them within her pieces as well as materials. She loves experiencing, incorporating new and strange materials into her jewelry. |
 |  Miriam Shimon Soutache Specialist Miriam Shimon is an award-winning Israeli bead work artist with a penchant for working with Soutache. Born and raised in Denmark she now lives in Israel where she regularly teaches jewelery making and soutache workshops. She has been published in several books and magazines, and won numerous awards for her work around the world. You can follow her blog at www.cielodesign.blogspot.com. |
 | Betty Stephan Bead Embroidery Specialist Betty Stephan's mom was a seamstress and taught Betty and each of her 4 sisters how to sew at an early age. It wasn't until she was in her 50s that Betty combined this skill with the art of beadwork in the form of bead embroidery. After retiring from her "real" job as an aide to special needs preschool children in 2005, she became a full time bead artist. You can find Betty travelling throughout the US with her husband in their RV and exhibiting her intricate pieces at fine craft shows during the summers. During the winter, you will find her in her "dungeon" - madly beading away – warm and toasty and shielded from the heavy western New York snows. Her work was published in Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry - as well as being pictured on the cover. She has won numerous international awards and contests and her designs have been published in Bead&Button , Beadwork , and Ornament magazines. Betty participated in both 2012 and 2013 Battle of the Beadsmith. |
 | Melissa Cable Mixed Media Jewelry Design Specialist Melissa Cable is a mixed media jewelry artist, instructor and author who thrives on developing new designs and techniques with traditional and non-traditional materials, from metal, leather, and plastics to wood, clay and found objects. She is fascinated by the translation of techniques between materials and shares this love with students in her workshops around the world. Melissa enjoys documenting her experiments on her blog, Create Recklessly. She is the author of Spotlight on Wire (2011), Metal Jewelry in Bloom (2013) and Beautiful Leather Jewelry (2014) and her work has been featured in Art Jewelry , BeadStyle , Stringing , Wirework , and Step-by-Step Wire magazines as well as Showcase 500 Art Necklaces . In addition to creating her own products under her Create Recklessly brand, Melissa serves as a consulting design for Faux Bone and is on the design team for Patrik Kusek's Woodland Chic. She resides in the Greater Seattle area, where she calls Fusion Beads her teaching home. When she is not chasing after her young daughter and son, she might be found writing, running or rambling. |
 | Laura Graham Beadweaving Specialist Laura studied and worked in the art and photography field from a very young age until being diagnosed with Lupus in 2007. Making jewelry became her way of coping with the disease, and now she is an award-winning designer and practices beadweaving therapy every day. The creative and technical aspects, the new two-hole beads as well as the endless possibilities keep her very busy and creativity flowing. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband, has an Etsy shop, and has started teaching her designs. You can reach her at desertstarcreations.etsy.com or at [email protected]. |
 |  Carolyn Cave Beadwork Specialist A self-taught bead artist living in Alberta, Carolyn enjoys the endless creativity derived from stringing and stitching “little round shiny things with holes in them”. This is both a frustrating and exhilarating way to fill in the spare moments of her very full days as a wife, mother of three young ladies, and musician. Creativity has always played a large role in her life, from sewing clothes for Barbie at a young age, to experimenting with a wide variety of arts and crafts; from earning a Degree in Music and playing several instruments, to making jewelry. Her creations are inspired by a wide variety of things – the colors and shapes of the natural world, works of vintage and antique beaded art, the encouraging comments of her family, and the many hours spent “composing” with needle, beads and thread. Her work has been published in Bead&Button and Beadwork magazines, and she has been a winner in multiple categories of BeadStar every year since 2011. Her first book, Beautiful Designs with SuperDuos and Twin Beads , was released by Kalmbach in 2014. Visit Carolyn’s Facebook page: Lady Beadle Designs or visit her website: www.ladybeadledesigns.com ! |
 | Isabella Lam Beadwork Specialist Isabella Lam started beading in 2009, living and working in Israel. Beadwork became her profession over the years; creating new designs of beaded jewelry using new beads in unique combinations is always an opportunity for challenge. She enjoys sharing her passion and love for beads and inspiring her students to share her love of jewelry making. As a leading beadwork designer her fans all over the world have the opportunity to learn and create many of her off-loom projects. Isabella believes that if you are interested in giving beads a try, she will help you create elegant and unique beadwork jewelry which will most certainly get you noticed. You can find over 100 different kits and over 120 tutorials in different levels from beginner to advance. Visit www.isabellalam.com or www.etsy.com/shop/bead4me. |
 |  Bianca van der Molen Jewelry Design Specialist About ten years ago I came in contact with beads, during a small workshop at my job. Since then I was completely hooked on the beads. Over the years I taught myself to bead, from “just” stringing (with a bit of wirewrapping) beads, bead embroidery and then to beadweaving! I just love it that you can make the most intricate but yet simple jewelry by just weaving the beads with different techniques. At the end of 2012 I began writing my first tutorial, Star of Kallista, and opened my Etsy store www.biancmolendesigns.etsy.com. I’ve made several more since then and was published in two magazines in 2014. At my website www.biancmolendesigns.com you can also find a few free tutorials. |
 | Cora Sparidaans Jewelry Design Specialist Cora Sparidaans lives in a small village in the Netherlands with her loving husband and two sons. In 2014, she came across a beading store and her love for beading was born. Not long after, she started to design her own pieces and teach classes for both beginners and advanced beaders. Her passion is designing new pieces and trying out color combinations. Cora also loves to share her passion with others. Her work has been published in the Perlen Poesie and in Bead Art & Embroidery magazines. Now she has her own online bead store where she sells patterns, kits and beading supplies. You can visit her at www.csbeaddesign.nl or on Facebook - facebook.com/csbeaddesign/ |
 |  Debora Hodoyer Bead Design Specialist Debora Hodoyer was raised in Sardinia, a beautiful island in the middle of Mediterranean Sea she became a passionate traveler and now, back from those beautiful experiences, concentrates on the valorization of culture, language, protection of the environment, archeology, traditions and ancient history of her island, which you’re welcome to come and visit. |
 | Martha Mollichella Jewelry Design Specialist Martha Mollichella studied jewelry design and goldsmithing at the Art Institute of Rome where she graduated as an art teacher in 1991. Circumstances led her to work in the commercial sector of an Information Technology company and for almost 18 years she was involved in creating new business plans, searching for potential customers, purchasing, managing, taking care of clients and much more. Then her life took a new direction. After having three children, she decided to be a stay-at-home mom and during this time she re-discovered the joys of various creative arts as a way to entertain not only her kids but herself as well. She began sewing with great enthusiasm and stumbled across soutache and beads in a sewing ideas project. That was the spark that renewed her passion for jewelry making and she has been beading every day since 2013. After many years of artistic studies, Martha’s passions have changed and evolved. She loves to create primarily unique pieces and small works of wearable art. Visit her website: www.marthamollichella.com. |
 | Rangashrii Santhanam Beadweaving Specialist Rangashrii Santhanam is an award-winning designer who started beading in 2009. Her designs have been published in magazines such as Beadwork and Bead and Jewelry. She is inspired by nature and quite a few of her designs mimic flowers. She travels with her beads as much as possible. Rangashrii lives in Atlanta, GA with her son and husband and two very spoiled cats. Her hobbies are reading and gardening and she loves board games. She sells her finished jewelry in craft shows and to private clients. You can find her designs and kits at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShriiDesignsllc or follow her on Instagram @shriidesigns. She can be reached at [email protected]. |
 |  Barbra Lepak Embroidery Specialist Barbra Lepak started beading in 2013, though her mum introduced her to the craft and joys of embroidery in her childhood, and later on cross stitching (which she still loves doing.) Using the internet and some magazines she learned basic bead weaving techniques and just few months later started designing her own patterns, but it took five years before she made her very first tutorial. Earrings are her favorite piece of jewelry and you can see her doing those most often. Among her works you'll also find bead embroidery, soutache and bead crochet. |
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