The Bead Society Holiday Pop Up was held on October 26th at the Veterans Memorial Complex in Culver City. Unfortunately, the competition for other events on that day was fierce. There were sports games including the Dodgers, election events, concerts, Halloween parties and more. But in the end, the attendees and vendors expressed their pleasure. In addition, the Bead Society Table made a modest return. 
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Here are some pictures of the event: 
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The Bead Society appreciates the vendors and attendees who participated in the event. The next events are scheduled for March and May. Stay tuned! 

For our Kick off for the FY2025 meeting, we will have our members present and talk about what they did this summer, What Did you Do Last Summer?  
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Wednesday September 4th, 7 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615, Passcode: Beads 

Here is some of the information about our presenters:

Angie Carrington has been working on her website, making major updates to the menu and adding additional content. While it's not ready yet, she will share her experiences and challenges with everyone. Maybe it can help someone avoid some headaches.  

Mary Yaeger had an exciting trip to the Czech Republic. She will share some of her adventures with us! 

Lisa Shatts has been working on ideas for celebrating our 50th anniversary. She will highlight the website that we created for Membership Shopping! She will also talk about our trip to the Bead Society of Orange County to hear Robert Liu's talk! 

The Bead Society members helped out at the Fiesta of Gems in late June! This summer Kay Deeney along with some busy members have been helping mark and price some of the Bead Shack. Sylvia H. gratiously offered her home for us to have a garage Bead Sale! We had one in April and again in August. They were very successful! Kay will fill in more details at the meeting! 

Join us! Everyone is welcome! 

Bead Society business meeting is at 6:30 pm PT at the same Zoom address! 

The Bead Society participated in the Culver City Rock & Mineral Club's Fiesta of Gems on June 29th and 30th, 2024. We have had a table other years, but this time we brought beads to sell! It was exciting!

The beads and jewelry come from donations from the families of Bead Society members and others. We have used the beads in classes, donated them to various groups and have sold some at our Pop Ups and other shows. 

Members of the Bead Society celebrated the end of the fiscal year, and the changing of the guard on Saturday, June 24 at the Mexican restaurant, Kalaveras in Marina del Rey. Outgoing officers are Kay Deeney, President; Lillian Todaro, Vice Presiident, and Carmen Landau, Membership Chair. The new and ongoing officers for the 2023-2024 fiscal year are Lisa Shatts, President; Violeta Guerrero, Treasurer (continuing); Sylvia Humphrey, Secretary and Eve Rappoport, Membership Chair. 

Lisa Shatts organized the event. The three outgoing officers received plastic buckets and celebratory cards. The buckets are for gathering one's bucket list of ideas. Lisa warned the three that in a year, she expects a report on whether we have accomplished items on our bucket list. The buckets also included a scoop which is very useful for moving beads around! The outgoing officers wish the incoming officers a successful and fruitful year! 

The restaurant is known for their exotic drinks, and the angel backdrop where several of the pictures were taken. Members and guests enjoyed good food, drinks and companionship. 

The Bead Society Mother's Day Pop Up held on Saturday, May 6th was great! Lots of people attended the brightly lit Parish Hall of St. Bede's Episcopal Church in Mar Vista. One attendee remarked that it was apropos that the church's name matches the Bead Society! 

Vendors sold finished jewely, paintings, art, photographs, tote bags, clothing, and art objects. Some beads and findings were also available.  
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The Bead Society Program for May is titled "My Bead Journey." It will be Wednesday, May 3rd at 7 pm Pacific Time.  Our speaker is Doris Weinbaum who opened a bead store in 1993, without knowing how to bead. Doris will tell the story of her serendipitous journey from neophyte bead entrepreneur to accomplished bead artist. Her bead store is in Oak Park, Illinois. She sold it iand lives in San Clemente now. 

Wednesday May 3rd  7 pm Pacific Time
Zoom Meeting ID: 899 883 2615, Passcode: Beads 
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All are welcome! 
​Business meeting at 6:30 pm PT at the same Zoom address! ​

Doris Weinbaum has been involved with beads, both as a businesswoman and an artist/teacher since 1993. In that year Doris opened a retail bead shop in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. While owning and managing the shop, Doris began learning beading techniques and jewelry design from instructors in her store, books and customers. Given her breadth of experience with many other hand-crafts, including sewing, knitting and crocheting, Doris' talent for beading blossomed. Doris has had one of her original designs published and has taught a wide range of beading techniques to children and adults. 

The Bead Society is having our Mother's Day Pop Up at St Bede's Episcopal Church in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles. The date is Saturday, May 6th, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. 

Lots of wonderful artists are participating. We have created a slideshow highlighting their work on our website here!  Check it out! Many of your favorites will be there, such as Chunky by Design, Lillian Todaro Collections, Carrington Treasures, August Sun Designs, Spirit, MoonRose Artistry and more! 

We hope you all will attend this event! We are excied about tryng this new location to reach out to the community!  Thanks to the work of the Pop Up Committee including Sylvia Humphrey, Lisa Shatts, Mark Hunter, Violeta Guerrero, Lillian Todaro, Kay Deeney and Margaret Kelly. 

The address is 
St Bede's Episcopal Church
3590 Grand View Blvd 
​LOS ANGELES, CA 90066 

The Holiday Party of the Bead Society was last Saturday at El Cholo Restaurant on Western Avenue in Los Angeles. Twenty people came to celebrate with us.  It was a pleasant event partaking in Mexican food and visiting with Bead Society members and friends. The room was nicely decorated. The staff at the restaurant were very responsive. Tim Meikle brought frog treats for all. And members received little treat bags from the Society.
 
One attendee wrote me later,

I just want to tell you, Thank you very, very, much for your invitation to yesterday's BSLA holiday lunch. 
I enjoyed the afternoon, and all of the "Beaders," (and the food, too.) Earlier you said, "Beads just don't keep a person warm."  Might be, but yesterday, I felt a lot of warmth from all of the BEADERS.

It was great to gather together again. We have only seen many members in person during the Bead Bazaar in September and the Holiday Pop Up in Novermber.  It is just different from meeting via online sessions! 
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See the pictures below from the Holiday party. We wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! 
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