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Magazine Review: Bead Show 2004
I SO agree with you.
I thought this magazine -- which to my chagrin, I bought -- was an amateurish piece of trash. Don't waste your money. I was shocked by how lame it was. Short Version: Don't Bother Long Version: Normally, the publications put out by Beadwork Magazine are quite good, and I expected a whole lot better than this. The magazine was billed as a "bead show in a book," and was supposed to give the reader a taste of a real bead show. As such, I expected a lot of advertising, to take the place of vendor tables. The magazine didn't disappoint me there, the issue is at least 75% advertising. Most of the ads are very nice, and not the same stuff I see repeated each month in all the Beady magazines. (I swear, I want to throw that ceramic statue of a woman in a herringbone stitch dress in the trash, simply because I've seen gazillions of times!) Where the publication falls short is in the instructional articles. Their article on making Lampworked beads is so incomplete, it makes me suspect that their other articles are no good, either. The lampworking article says not one thing about annealing, and recommends using an insulating blanket. I'm quite sure that even basic lampworking cannot be adequately taught in a page and a half of a magazine, though the article seems to state that you can make beads with only that tiny amount of information. They do list some further resources, but issue no warnings about the dangers that can occur when working with hot glass. (BTW, the article is to push some torch that uses MAPP glass, but isn't a Hothead.) Even worse is the close proximity of an ad for a beginner's lampwork kit that doesn't even include eye protection! It would be simple for a reader to see the article, and associate it with the ad, which I'm sure was no accident. I cannot comment on their instructions for PMC, because I have no experience in that area. The project they describe involves covering Fruit Loops cereal with PMC to make rondelle beads (I'm not kidding), and even though I haven't worked with PMC, it seems distressingly incomplete. Another feature is "How to Attend a Bead Show," which is supposedly full of helpful hints. I had two huge gripes with the article: first that they recommend you bring between $100 and $3,000 _in cash_ with you to each bead show. If I were a mugger, I'd be passing out these articles at the door of every bead show I could find! Carrying all that cash isn't exactly safe, even if I had $3,000 to carry around with me. My second gripe wasn't with the wording of the article, but the photos. In several of them, they showed some cute toddlers poking around tables, and pawing through trays of beads. Sorry, but a bead show is no place for a toddler - the Mom can't have fun because she's freaking over the "don't touch" rule, and the kid will be miserable because he can't touch the pretty beads and will get trampled. I suspect that the kiddos were children or grandchildren of the author, though I could be 100% wrong, and they were simply very savvy young bead buyers. (hah) Anyway, in my opinion, this is one publication that is best skipped. It wasn't cheap (~$9), which is a lot of money for a bunch of ads and a couple of misleading articles. My two cents, Kathy N-V ~~ Sooz ------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html |
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I looked at it briefly at the store today, while waiting in line, and
decided against it. Now I have the 7.00 or so for other goodies. "Dr. Sooz" wrote in message ... I SO agree with you. I thought this magazine -- which to my chagrin, I bought -- was an amateurish piece of trash. Don't waste your money. I was shocked by how lame it was. Short Version: Don't Bother Long Version: Normally, the publications put out by Beadwork Magazine are quite good, and I expected a whole lot better than this. The magazine was billed as a "bead show in a book," and was supposed to give the reader a taste of a real bead show. As such, I expected a lot of advertising, to take the place of vendor tables. The magazine didn't disappoint me there, the issue is at least 75% advertising. Most of the ads are very nice, and not the same stuff I see repeated each month in all the Beady magazines. (I swear, I want to throw that ceramic statue of a woman in a herringbone stitch dress in the trash, simply because I've seen gazillions of times!) Where the publication falls short is in the instructional articles. Their article on making Lampworked beads is so incomplete, it makes me suspect that their other articles are no good, either. The lampworking article says not one thing about annealing, and recommends using an insulating blanket. I'm quite sure that even basic lampworking cannot be adequately taught in a page and a half of a magazine, though the article seems to state that you can make beads with only that tiny amount of information. They do list some further resources, but issue no warnings about the dangers that can occur when working with hot glass. (BTW, the article is to push some torch that uses MAPP glass, but isn't a Hothead.) Even worse is the close proximity of an ad for a beginner's lampwork kit that doesn't even include eye protection! It would be simple for a reader to see the article, and associate it with the ad, which I'm sure was no accident. I cannot comment on their instructions for PMC, because I have no experience in that area. The project they describe involves covering Fruit Loops cereal with PMC to make rondelle beads (I'm not kidding), and even though I haven't worked with PMC, it seems distressingly incomplete. Another feature is "How to Attend a Bead Show," which is supposedly full of helpful hints. I had two huge gripes with the article: first that they recommend you bring between $100 and $3,000 _in cash_ with you to each bead show. If I were a mugger, I'd be passing out these articles at the door of every bead show I could find! Carrying all that cash isn't exactly safe, even if I had $3,000 to carry around with me. My second gripe wasn't with the wording of the article, but the photos. In several of them, they showed some cute toddlers poking around tables, and pawing through trays of beads. Sorry, but a bead show is no place for a toddler - the Mom can't have fun because she's freaking over the "don't touch" rule, and the kid will be miserable because he can't touch the pretty beads and will get trampled. I suspect that the kiddos were children or grandchildren of the author, though I could be 100% wrong, and they were simply very savvy young bead buyers. (hah) Anyway, in my opinion, this is one publication that is best skipped. It wasn't cheap (~$9), which is a lot of money for a bunch of ads and a couple of misleading articles. My two cents, Kathy N-V ~~ Sooz ------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html |
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Kathy,
Thanks for your review. I would send a copy of it to the publisher. Patti |
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Thanks for the warning!
One less temptation the next trip to the bookstore LOL Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! A HREF="http://www.dragonbeads.com" DRAGON BEADS /A Flameworked beads and glass http://www.dragonbeads.com/ |
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I looked this one over and passed on it. Good thing I did. My thinking
was... with so many ads, why was the cost so high????? -- Vibrant Jewels Online Bead & Jewelry Store http://www.vibrantjewels.com/jewelry/welcome.htm Karleen Page/Vibrant Jewels JustBead Auctions http://www.justbeads.com/search/ql.cfm?s=21770 PayPal Merchant Account https://www.paypal.com/mrb/pal=7XJ98L86Z7S2C "Kathy N-V" wrote in message .com... Short Version: Don't Bother Long Version: Normally, the publications put out by Beadwork Magazine are quite good, and I expected a whole lot better than this. The magazine was billed as a "bead show in a book," and was supposed to give the reader a taste of a real bead show. As such, I expected a lot of advertising, to take the place of vendor tables. The magazine didn't disappoint me there, the issue is at least 75% advertising. Most of the ads are very nice, and not the same stuff I see repeated each month in all the Beady magazines. (I swear, I want to throw that ceramic statue of a woman in a herringbone stitch dress in the trash, simply because I've seen gazillions of times!) Where the publication falls short is in the instructional articles. Their article on making Lampworked beads is so incomplete, it makes me suspect that their other articles are no good, either. The lampworking article says not one thing about annealing, and recommends using an insulating blanket. I'm quite sure that even basic lampworking cannot be adequately taught in a page and a half of a magazine, though the article seems to state that you can make beads with only that tiny amount of information. They do list some further resources, but issue no warnings about the dangers that can occur when working with hot glass. (BTW, the article is to push some torch that uses MAPP glass, but isn't a Hothead.) Even worse is the close proximity of an ad for a beginner's lampwork kit that doesn't even include eye protection! It would be simple for a reader to see the article, and associate it with the ad, which I'm sure was no accident. I cannot comment on their instructions for PMC, because I have no experience in that area. The project they describe involves covering Fruit Loops cereal with PMC to make rondelle beads (I'm not kidding), and even though I haven't worked with PMC, it seems distressingly incomplete. Another feature is "How to Attend a Bead Show," which is supposedly full of helpful hints. I had two huge gripes with the article: first that they recommend you bring between $100 and $3,000 _in cash_ with you to each bead show. If I were a mugger, I'd be passing out these articles at the door of every bead show I could find! Carrying all that cash isn't exactly safe, even if I had $3,000 to carry around with me. My second gripe wasn't with the wording of the article, but the photos. In several of them, they showed some cute toddlers poking around tables, and pawing through trays of beads. Sorry, but a bead show is no place for a toddler - the Mom can't have fun because she's freaking over the "don't touch" rule, and the kid will be miserable because he can't touch the pretty beads and will get trampled. I suspect that the kiddos were children or grandchildren of the author, though I could be 100% wrong, and they were simply very savvy young bead buyers. (hah) Anyway, in my opinion, this is one publication that is best skipped. It wasn't cheap (~$9), which is a lot of money for a bunch of ads and a couple of misleading articles. My two cents, Kathy N-V |
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I looked at this at the news stand the other day and didn't think it was
worth buying either. I was very disappointed with the level of some of the projects and would not recommend buying it. Roxan "Kathy N-V" wrote in message .com... Short Version: Don't Bother Long Version: Normally, the publications put out by Beadwork Magazine are quite good, and I expected a whole lot better than this. The magazine was billed as a "bead show in a book," and was supposed to give the reader a taste of a real bead show. As such, I expected a lot of advertising, to take the place of vendor tables. The magazine didn't disappoint me there, the issue is at least 75% advertising. Most of the ads are very nice, and not the same stuff I see repeated each month in all the Beady magazines. (I swear, I want to throw that ceramic statue of a woman in a herringbone stitch dress in the trash, simply because I've seen gazillions of times!) Where the publication falls short is in the instructional articles. Their article on making Lampworked beads is so incomplete, it makes me suspect that their other articles are no good, either. The lampworking article says not one thing about annealing, and recommends using an insulating blanket. I'm quite sure that even basic lampworking cannot be adequately taught in a page and a half of a magazine, though the article seems to state that you can make beads with only that tiny amount of information. They do list some further resources, but issue no warnings about the dangers that can occur when working with hot glass. (BTW, the article is to push some torch that uses MAPP glass, but isn't a Hothead.) Even worse is the close proximity of an ad for a beginner's lampwork kit that doesn't even include eye protection! It would be simple for a reader to see the article, and associate it with the ad, which I'm sure was no accident. I cannot comment on their instructions for PMC, because I have no experience in that area. The project they describe involves covering Fruit Loops cereal with PMC to make rondelle beads (I'm not kidding), and even though I haven't worked with PMC, it seems distressingly incomplete. Another feature is "How to Attend a Bead Show," which is supposedly full of helpful hints. I had two huge gripes with the article: first that they recommend you bring between $100 and $3,000 _in cash_ with you to each bead show. If I were a mugger, I'd be passing out these articles at the door of every bead show I could find! Carrying all that cash isn't exactly safe, even if I had $3,000 to carry around with me. My second gripe wasn't with the wording of the article, but the photos. In several of them, they showed some cute toddlers poking around tables, and pawing through trays of beads. Sorry, but a bead show is no place for a toddler - the Mom can't have fun because she's freaking over the "don't touch" rule, and the kid will be miserable because he can't touch the pretty beads and will get trampled. I suspect that the kiddos were children or grandchildren of the author, though I could be 100% wrong, and they were simply very savvy young bead buyers. (hah) Anyway, in my opinion, this is one publication that is best skipped. It wasn't cheap (~$9), which is a lot of money for a bunch of ads and a couple of misleading articles. My two cents, Kathy N-V |
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Kathy N-V wrote: Short Version: Don't Bother Thanks for the review! I will happily save my $$$ without wondering what I'm missing. -- Stef ** avid/sensible/sensual/wise/essential/elemental/tangle ** * http://www.cat-and-dragon.com/stef ** Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -- Robert Frost |
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Wow - good to know, Kathy - thank you! I was thinking of buying the mag,
but now I am going to skip it and spend my $9 on something else. Toddlers might even put beads in their mouths - dangerous!! -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net Short Version: Don't Bother Long Version: Normally, the publications put out by Beadwork Magazine are quite good, and I expected a whole lot better than this. The magazine was billed as a "bead show in a book," and was supposed to give the reader a taste of a real bead show. As such, I expected a lot of advertising, to take the place of vendor tables. The magazine didn't disappoint me there, the issue is at least 75% advertising. Most of the ads are very nice, and not the same stuff I see repeated each month in all the Beady magazines. (I swear, I want to throw that ceramic statue of a woman in a herringbone stitch dress in the trash, simply because I've seen gazillions of times!) Where the publication falls short is in the instructional articles. Their article on making Lampworked beads is so incomplete, it makes me suspect that their other articles are no good, either. The lampworking article says not one thing about annealing, and recommends using an insulating blanket. I'm quite sure that even basic lampworking cannot be adequately taught in a page and a half of a magazine, though the article seems to state that you can make beads with only that tiny amount of information. They do list some further resources, but issue no warnings about the dangers that can occur when working with hot glass. (BTW, the article is to push some torch that uses MAPP glass, but isn't a Hothead.) Even worse is the close proximity of an ad for a beginner's lampwork kit that doesn't even include eye protection! It would be simple for a reader to see the article, and associate it with the ad, which I'm sure was no accident. I cannot comment on their instructions for PMC, because I have no experience in that area. The project they describe involves covering Fruit Loops cereal with PMC to make rondelle beads (I'm not kidding), and even though I haven't worked with PMC, it seems distressingly incomplete. Another feature is "How to Attend a Bead Show," which is supposedly full of helpful hints. I had two huge gripes with the article: first that they recommend you bring between $100 and $3,000 _in cash_ with you to each bead show. If I were a mugger, I'd be passing out these articles at the door of every bead show I could find! Carrying all that cash isn't exactly safe, even if I had $3,000 to carry around with me. My second gripe wasn't with the wording of the article, but the photos. In several of them, they showed some cute toddlers poking around tables, and pawing through trays of beads. Sorry, but a bead show is no place for a toddler - the Mom can't have fun because she's freaking over the "don't touch" rule, and the kid will be miserable because he can't touch the pretty beads and will get trampled. I suspect that the kiddos were children or grandchildren of the author, though I could be 100% wrong, and they were simply very savvy young bead buyers. (hah) Anyway, in my opinion, this is one publication that is best skipped. It wasn't cheap (~$9), which is a lot of money for a bunch of ads and a couple of misleading articles. My two cents, Kathy N-V |
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