Crystal Rock Pavillion at Creativ Festival

I hope you'll join me and some amazing talent at the Crystal Rock Pavillion at the Creativ Festival October 12, 13 and 14, 2012. For more information about this great Canadian event please visit their website www.csnf.com

The Dixon Chick Trunk Show at Bead Junction

You are invited to attend

The Dixon Chick Trunk Show

Sunday, December 5

starting at 11:00 am

Bead Junction

389 Roncesvalles Avenue

Toronto

416-533-8555

Toronto's very own CREATE YOUR STYLE with Swarovski Elements Ambassador, Stephanie Dixon, is pleased to announce that she has partnered with Bead Junction to host a trunk show on Sunday, December 5.

Come out and see Stephanie demoing with Crystal Clay: the hottest new product for bead crafters on the market. Crystal Clay will be having it's official debut in Tucson in February 2011, but as the creator, Debra Saucier, is also a CREATE YOUR STYLE Ambassador, Stephanie is able to showcase it to the Canadian market first!!!



You've seen the iPad cover she created, now buy the Swarovski Bling Kit! Yes, The Crystal Ninja's very own Bling Kit will be available for sale at Bead Junction on Sunday.



Did you miss your chance to take The Crystal Adventure with Stephanie Dixon and Laura Timmons at the Creativ Festival? Fear not! You will be able to purchase the kit at the trunk show. Filled with oodles of Swarovski Elements, this beautiful necklace combines wire bead crochet and wire work techniques.



And of course, come to Bead Junction for the beads! I know you won't be able to resist doing some retail therapy. Look at the length of my receipt from the last time I was at Bead Junction. I just had to have my picture taken with Heather and my bag o' goodies!




See you there!!

Ring Smackdown

One of my most popular classes is The Dixon Chick Bling Ring. A variety of rings using Swarovski Elements are made with 22 gauge non tarnish silver wire. For these rings, you can also use 20 gauge nts. Once you get the basics of working with a mandrel and how to create a basic form, you're pretty much off and running.



At Bead and Button 2010, my fellow CREATE YOUR STYLE with Swarovski Elements Ambassador, Debra Saucier, and I were scheduled to demo at the E.H. Ashley booth. We decided to demo rings together. I called it the Ring Smackdown. Debra made a ring, then tapped me with her mandrel and it was my turn. We must have made about 15 rings. There was a nice crowd watching and some of superstars of the jewelry world even stopped by!! Nothing like pressure when Sherry Serafini and Denise Peck are watching!!


We had such a fun time that the gang at E.H. Ashley hopes we do it again next year. I hope so too!! They have such great products. Custom coated Swarovski Elements and filigree balls encrusted with crystals. They are a wholesale only company, but that doesn't stop you from checking out their website and begging your local bead store to carry the product. (That's what I do, right Marg?)

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