Bead Fest was amazing! Thursday morning Colin and I drove out to PA and met up with our friend Joanna (our room crasher, hehe). After we got our room all taken care of I skipped off to the first part of my resin workshop with the fabulous Susan Lenart Kazmer.
This was my first time taking one of her workshops and I hope to take many more as she is a fabulous instructor.
I met some really cool people in this workshop and even ended up sitting across from one of my Suburban Girl facebook fans! My friend Kecia (who is also on the Objects & Elements design team) was also there...
After part-two of the workshop on Friday I ran off to shop! I first ran around and met some of the Beads of Clay artists. And of course I picked up some goodies at each of their tables.
The amazing Diane Hawkey and Melanie Brooks.
The super sweet Kristie Roeder of Artisan Clay.
OMG look at all her beads! My favorite purchase of the show was one of Kristie's large glass and clay pendants.
As I was wandering around I saw a table full of raku beads so I went over to look and that's when I met Olivia Dowdy of Odd Designs Pottery. We chatted and chatted and chatted!
I then made my way over to oogle some lampwork beads by Patti Cahill...
Hey look! It's my friend Suze Weinberg!
The show is huge but I ran into Suze again later in the day and Joan and Lisa were with her! BTW, Suze is doing multiple posts on her blog about Bead Fest so check it out!
Before I left (as my wallet was crying and my feet were swollen) I stopped over the largest necklace in the world and donated one of my purple ceramic barrel beads.
And that concludes my Bead Fest 2010 experience in a nutshell. One day I'll be a vendor but for now I enjoyed being a student and shopper. I can't wait for next year!