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How Saturated is Your Color?
from the June 2006 Margie’s Muse While I appreciate and learn from all colors, its the saturated colors, those vibrant royal jewels, that make me swoon. Brew the components of value, hue, and...
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Project Runway Judges: Do You Know Color?
In the Feb. 18, 2010 episode of Project Runway guest judge Tory Burch said “I’m not sure that blue and orange are that complementary, do you think so?” Heidi, Michael, and Nina (the show’s regular...
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Landscape of the Soul
"Golden Earring" from Beading Her Image Excerpt from Margie’s Muse, April 2010 I am and always have been fascinated with faces. I have a library full of portrait photography books, just to study faces....
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How Bead Finishes Interact with Color
excerpt from the June 2010 Margie’s Muse column Seed beads are chameleons. They change their color—sometimes dramatically. When strung as a hank, seed beads will enchant you, casting a spell that...
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Analogous Color Schemes
by Margie Deeb excerpt from Margie’s Muse, September 2010 I’m often asked how to use the colorwheel. That question takes considerable time to answer (it took me four years and 144 pages to answer to it...
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Write My Next Book with Me
I’m working on my 5th book and I want you to be my co-author, so that The Beader’s Guide to Jewelry Design gives you exactly what you want and need. The Plan From now through June 2012 I’ll be asking...
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Jewelry Design: Pattern
The following is an excerpt from my May 2012 Margie’s Muse column. Download and read it in full. Fifty colors of complex patterns and harmonies rotate around “Genevieve’s Hat” by Anne Hawley. Your eye...
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An Act of Love
Maybe like me, you grew up among the notion that jewelry is, at best, gewgaw for the shallow minded. Or, at worst, a prop for the vain. That jewelry is no more than playing dress up; meaningless in the...
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What is Important?
A review on Amazon for my book, The Beader’s Guide to Jewelry Design, touches me deeply. Alicia wrote: “What I didn’t expect was the paragraph at the end where the author emphasized that as beaders...
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Tribute to John Berger
John Berger was able to see through the apparent to deeper, more meaningful levels of truth. He did this as writer, philosopher, artist, and humanist. His words and ideas give me hope and direction. An...
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