Jules and I had a great time in Milwaukee – quite the adventure for us outside of the desert! And I wore a sweater twice LOL. Who would have ever thought one could require a SWEATER in June?
Show Badges
I met Judy on Jewelry Lessons and she lives near Milwaukee and was kind enough to help Jules and me in our booth – gave us some mom/daughter shopping time. Thanks Judy!!
Judy
Who would have ever thought my little girl would be a chain maille wiz? She’s “hiding” here, working on her dragon scale bracelet.
Jules making a dragon scale bracelet
And here is my girl earning her keep LOL!
Jules working hard
We sold loads of kits, handmade retro copper beads, buttons, tools, bottle cap pendants, and Tierra Cast. I will be loading my buttons, tools, and Tierra Cast to my Jewels By Jules website soon-don’t miss out on the great prices!
Tierra Cast, buttons, bottle caps, handmade beads
I LOVE Sara’s enameled pieces. Check out her site, C-Koop Beads – her pics are way better than mine!
C-Koop Beads
C-Koop Beads
My dear friend, Judy Payne of JP Designs. Love her stuff. She makes her pendants and beads with recycled material and has recently started carrying a large line of Swarovski crystal. Try not to drool on your keyboard…
Judy Payne
JP Designs
Cool Earthwear
And the Parawire Guys! Frank and Bill are about the nicest guys and their wire is a great product to work with. I wanted to take more pictures of their booth but the show doors opened and I had to run back to my booth.
Frank & Bill, Parawire
Some goodies that I bought from Kathy of O’Gosh Buttons who is a lampworker extraordinaire! I love, love, love her beads and buy as much as I can whenever I am at shows with her. This is a new design I came up with after a February show and my friend, Hazel, bought the bracelet…hence, the name. Top of my list is to write a tutorial for this bracelet.
Hazel's Bracelet
The bead for Autumn Leaf is made with a technique called electroforming – just stunning!
Autumn Leaf
But I digress……here is what I just bought from Kathy.
O'Gosh Buttons
I will weave something up with copper wire with these beauties!
O'Gosh Buttons
O'Gosh Buttons
O'Gosh Buttons
Kabela Design was my “across the aisle” neighbor. We’ve done lots of shows together and her husband is quite the comedian! Check out her vintage filigree.
Kabela Design
Kabela Design Filigree
Kabela Design Filigree
Last but not least, a few of Jules and my site seeing adventure pics on Monday before flying home to Tucson. It was freezing and I loved every second of it!
Jules evidently not freezing
Me, pre-popsicle thinking “hurry up and take this picture so I can start walking again to warm up!”
Jodi
Didn’t get the name of this museum – too cold to venture out and check it out – but what SPECTACULAR architecture. And, yeah, supposedly there is a lake out there somewhere in all that fog.
Lakeside Museum
Some really tall huge yellow thing…
Jules
Totally cool building across the street from our hotel
Downtown Milwaukee Building
Can’t wait to go back next year! Already signed up…..
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What a fabulous trip. Looks like so much fun. Only wish Bead & Button was closer to me so I could go. Maybe I’ll take some time one year and visit you there.
Lois
That would be awesome, Lois! So maybe if you start planning and saving now for next year……
Looks like your trip was great. Congrats on the sales. And your treasures are fantastic. Those beads are fantastic. Maybe some day I’ll make it to B&B.
Side note, that is the Milwaukee War Memorial Center next the Art Museum. Booth pretty cool buildings, too bad the wings weren’t up on the art museum.
It was unfortunate that it was such a blustery day – I really wanted to see the lake and take pix but Jules and I really LOVED the weather! And we found a great Thai restaurant to eat at. Maybe next year we will have a clear day and can venture back down to lakeside
Thanks, Victoria!
Wow! Looks like you had heaps of fun, Jodi! I’ve never seen anything similar and I guess I never will… these kinds of shows/tradefairs are completely unknown here, as is the whole concept of handmade artisan jewelry (besides kid’s craft and professional educated gold- and silversmiths).
Thanks for sharing!
Jutta