Digital Beading Magazine Issue 15 | Page 7

From the Editor... WELCOME to Issue 15 of Digital Beading Magazine - our last issue! Thank you to each and every one of our loyal readers over the last three years - we hope you’ve enjoyed every issue as much as we have enjoyed putting each of them together for you! Kelly Nealon, Editor We have loads of lovely beaded jewellery projects for you to make in this issue and some interviews with the best in the beading biz. Melbourne beader Melissa Trudinger created our Cover bracelet project - beautiful Autumn toned beads and an oak leaf ceramic focal from Blue Mudd. We fell in love with it - sure you will too! T alented international bead artist and BOTB finalist Eva Dobos has made a pendant with half Tila bead, rivolis and bugles in this issue - and you can read all about Eva in our ‘Fab Four’ designer section - she is one of the beading industry’s true talents. Also in this issue, Australian loom maestro Caron Reid presents a chic animal print cuff design for DBM readers... while Lucie Corral Svobodov’s sandstone Adventurine donut-centred earrings (pictured, right), set with Make these frosted olivine seed beads, metallic fern Pip Bronzed Dagger beads and bronze dagger Drops drops are just gorgeous. Enjoy! Page 98 Let the beading begin!