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New Design Challenge Kit—Surrealist Garden

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New Design Challenge Kit—Surrealist Garden

Design Challenge Kit—Surrealist Garden This kit includes: Vintage Venetian Seed Beads Czech Glass Vintage Plastic Vintage Czech Glass Vintage Chinese Ceramic Dyed Stone African Glass Dyed & Stabilized Turquoise AG Fine Pewter Butterfly Puffed Oval Bead in Antique Silver AG Fine Pewter Flowers Toggle Clasp in Antique Silver Luxury Bead Blend The Luxury Bead Blend Initially Includes:  Czech Glass Vintage Glass Azurite Dyed Jade Crystal Seed Beads Cultured Sea Glass Fiber Optic Beads Dyed Shell Faux Coral If you're not familiar with the Allegory Gallery Design Challenges, it's a fun and informal way to play, create, and challenge yourself with...

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The Great Bead Trade!

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The Great Bead Trade!

Do you want to see ten talented designers make projects on the fly? Join us today in The Great Bead Extravaganza Group! This is an all-day event where 10 TGBE designers are paired together and everyone uses the same kit of jewelry making supplies to make vastly different things. It's going to be a lot of fun! We hope that you will join us all starting at 2pm ET / 11am PT to kick things off and see what is in the secret kit and then watch Sara from Soft Flex Company and Cynthia of Green Girl Studios design together virtually...

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Desert Succulent Design Challenge Kit

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Desert Succulent Design Challenge Kit

We’ve just released a new Design Challenge Kit during our spot on The Great Bead Extravaganza this morning! This is the beautiful Desert Succulent Kit, now available at https://www.allegorygallery.com/collections/tgbe-tucson-2022/products/design-challenge-kit-desert-succulent If you are new to us at Allegory Gallery, we create these kits so that you can create wonderful things from your own imagination. These kits don’t already have a project in mind with instructions. It’s our hope that you’ll take some of the techniques that we show you in our Lives at 5 and other tutorials, and use them to make gorgeous pieces of jewelry. And when you do make them, we hope...

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The Great Bead Extravaganza - Tucson Event 2022

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The Great Bead Extravaganza - Tucson Event 2022

The Great Bead Extravaganza has another great event coming your way! Join us this weekend, February 18-20, for another great weekend of presentations, sales, giveaways, and so much more!  If you're not already a member of The Great Bead Extravaganza Facebook Group, please click here to join! And, we've recently created a Great Bead Extravaganza Page on Facebook, too, so we hope you'll Like and Follow the Page, as well! Below is the schedule of events for our Tucson Event (in both Pacific and Eastern times), and we can't wait to join you again! Friday will be our Project Preview Party. Saturday and Sunday will be the full-length presentations!...

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The Great Bead Extravaganza—Midsummer Market Begins Soon!

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The Great Bead Extravaganza—Midsummer Market Begins Soon!

The Great Bead Extravaganza has another great event coming your way! Join us this weekend, June 11-13, for another great weekend of presentations, sales, giveaways, and so much more!  If you're not already a member of The Great Bead Extravaganza Facebook Group, please click here to join!  Below is the schedule of events for our Midsummer Market Event (in both Pacific and Eastern times), and we can't wait to join you again! Friday will be our Project Preview Party. Saturday and Sunday will be the full-length presentations! You won't want to miss this! 

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