Show and Tell
My return trip to Lowe’s for a different paint color seems to have been successful. I don’t actually have the... Read More
Learning Center
Welcome to the Jill Wiseman Designs Learning Center, your one-stop beading library! Here you'll find everything you need to know about beading and jewelry making. We've filled it with helpful articles and step-by-step tutorials, and will be adding to it regularly over the coming months!
Bead News - Jill's Journal
Covered in paint
I’m not the neatest painter in the world and if anyone had any doubts about that, you’d just have to... Read More
Ikea: Friend or Foe?
Really, I should know better than to let myself go to Ikea alone. Mom is my voice of reason when... Read More
Zombie Awakes
Is it wrong to sleep 22 out of the last 24 hours?? I don’t think so! I think I earned... Read More
375 miles to waggy tails
I had to stop for the night in Norman, Oklahoma. So near, but yet, so far from home. The travel... Read More
The Party Ends
Awwww….I have such mixed feelings about the end of Bead & Button each year. It’s an extravaganza of delights –... Read More
Have you missed me? Every day I’ve thought, I need to update the blog. And then I collapsed into bed... Read More
Dang, am I tired
I’ve been in Milwaukee less than 24 hours, and it’s already kicking my butt! First, the drive from Tulsa to... Read More
2am in Tulsa
Just finished today’s 494 mile drive and checked into a hotel in Tulsa. I’m so ready for bed, but still... Read More
Weekend report
I’m finally surfacing, after collapsing into an almost 12 hour sleep last night. The plan on Friday was for Mom... Read More
Eventually it works out
Sometimes it takes me a while to get it right. Remember how I was so happy and excited that I... Read More
Here, there, and everywhere
I’ve been feeling a bit like a ping pong ball today, running here and there to accomplish various errands. No... Read More
Slow and steady wins the race
At least that’s what Anne keeps telling me as we trade daily updates on our mutual plodding along the path... Read More
And if it ain’t your mother or your dog…
…it’s your brother…again! I got home from class last night and the first words out of Mom’s mouth were, “You’re... Read More
Assembly Line in progress
I love this part of making kits – when all the little pieces and parts I’ve been laboring over pull... Read More
Photo day!
Last night’s Ring Around the Rosie class was so much fun – all the usual suspects were there since it... Read More