Procrastination perfected
Things I found to do instead of writing the two sets of instructions due by morning: Ate the leftover baked... Read More
Learning Center
Welcome to the Jill Wiseman Designs Learning Center, your one-stop beading library! Here you'll find everything you need to know about beading and jewelry making. We've filled it with helpful articles and step-by-step tutorials, and will be adding to it regularly over the coming months!
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Details make a difference
I have been doing a LOT of beading in the last week. As in, nonstop during the waking hours. I’m... Read More
How Often Do You Bead?
From June:As I sit here and read through all my Facebook posts and read the blogs I subscribe to, I... Read More
The Story Behind: Butterfly Kisses
I was actually awake on Monday! During the day! And it may have been the power of suggestion, but I... Read More
Can you hold on one more day?
This weekend did not go as planned by me. Mainly because I am SO tired lately! In an effort to... Read More
The Story Behind: Forever Tango
That blog post title sounds like a VH1 Special, doesn’t it? First up for our walk through the projects included... Read More
Is it time yet???
It’s so VERY VERY close to the moment where my little book springs into the world, and I finally get... Read More
Daily Beading
I think I probably do a lot less beading than y’all think. When I have something to design, it tends... Read More
FREE projects from my book!
I’m not really sure where the last month went. I spent a lot of time designing. A lot of time... Read More
NOT the Bead & Button 2012 Report
Wednesday afternoon I sat and wrote a lovely, poetic, fascinating post about the Bead & Button Show, which I know... Read More
No Walk Monday
From June: I take Winston and Maggie for a walk every day. Theoretically, it was supposed to help Winston lose... Read More
Sneak Peek
From June: Here is a new design I created for Bead and Button this year. We’ve named the bracelet Mambo.... Read More
I have a crystal or two
At least once a week I think I’m crazy for having this job. Like when I look at my to-do... Read More
Guilty pleasures
I started my addiction to magazines at an early age. My babysitting income went to Vogue, Glamour, Bazaar, and Seventeen... Read More
My own worst enemy
So I spent my night’s worth of work doing the following: Making a new sample for a workshop I’m teaching... Read More
Sideways photos and all
This is what it looks like around our house (production factory) these days. I never did figure out why the... Read More