Portand Bead Society

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Beads at Dusti Creek

NEXT GENERAL MEETING - September 17 - 7:00 PM

Gail Crosman Moore will be our speaker.

She will be teaching PBS-sponsored classes on September 19, 20 & 21. Space is still available for her classes. Go to Classes for info.

Portland Bead Society Annual Bead Bazaar

November 1 & 2, 2008
Montgomery Park
Click here for details

VENDOR LIST for 2007

Lisa McAuliffe & Sylvia Loftus
Bazaar Co-Chairs

See pictures of our previous bazaars
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

General Membership Monthly Meetings

This is our monthly event. We have a very active membership who attend our meetings.

Generally, every month we have a speaker complete with a slide show representing their work or the story they are telling. The topics might be marvelous lampworked beads and the artist who made them or how seed beads are made in the Czech Republic. We might hear from seed bead artists who use those little bitty beads to make fabulous necklaces or sculptural pieces. We might see a slide show about the families who make Hill Tribe Silver in Thailand. Around the holidays we have a potluck and make earrings to give to a women's shelter. Very diverse subjects for a very diverse group of folks who enjoy, like, or love beads. Be sure to CLICK HERE for all the meeting details.

The meeting starts at 7:00 pm; however if you come at 6:00 pm, we have free beading lessons, demonstrations and general bead help. Be sure to bring your supplies, beads and questions.

We are always happy to see new faces, so please come join us.

PBS Library

Visit our newly relocated library. For info on where, when and how visit our library page.

PBS Sunday Social Suspended

The Sunday Social beading group is being put on hold. We no longer have access to the Beaverton Community Center, as they are full. I've checked into public libraries on the west side as well as other locations, but was unsuccessful.

Maybe some of you know of free meeting space for a 3-hour meeting one Sunday a month. If enough PBS members are interested & willing to commit to meeting once a month, we can work on setting up another group.

I'll ask about this at our general meeting(s). If you are interested in getting together once a month with other PBS members to work on bead projects, share ideas & socialize, please speak up at the general meeting. Or you can email me with your name, contact information, where & when you can meet.

Cherie Calewart
PBS Sunday Social Organizer
calamander@comcast.net
503-579-0334

6th Annual Portland Bead Society Retreat

Where? Tolovana Inn, Cannon Beach.
When? March 6, 7 & 8, 2009.

Want to know more? See our Retreat section!

It's Not Your Grandmother's Beadwork Anymore

The Artist's Purchase Grants Program is under construction.

Purchase Grant Award Call For Entry due date has been extended to March 30, 2007.

Previous winners are:

“ Journey ”
by Karen Hoyt-Carr
Bronze & Silver Necklace
by Karen Hoyt-Carr
“ My Cup Runneth Over ”
by Delta Waldt
“ Corn for Dinner ”
by Carol Perrenoud.
"Dinka Inspired Bracelet "
by David Chatt
"Beaded Cuff "
by Blythe Jorgenson
"Girls are Made of Mutilated Monkey Feet"
by Teresa Sullivan.

Click here to see the pieces.

Bead Embellished Christmas Tree

At our November 2008 meeting we all got together and made earrings to embellish small Christmas Trees. Some members made necklaces and/or bracelets and brought them to the meeting to put on the tree. The decorated trees were donated to a women's shelter.

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