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Bead Play

Beadwork expert shares her talents
by teaching others.

Karen Schultz Tarnopol
Special to the Jewish News

S

ome people know what they want
to be at a very young age. Beth
Stone had a passion for beading
at birth. "I was beading in the womb: she
said smiling.
"My grandmother, Ethel Terman, and
my mother, Ina Katz, were beading and
doing crafts long before I came along. I
was always surrounded by little beads and
crafts," she recalled.
"You can teach the mechanics, but you
can't teach talent," Katz said. "Beth was
born with it; and the kicker is, she was
self-taught."
Stone lives in West Bloomfield with her
husband Sheldon Stone, who is president
of the board of Jewish Family Service, and
their two daughters, Cheyenne and Sierra,
who recently started GROW, a teen divi-
sion of National Council of Jewish Women,
Greater Detroit Section. Her mother serves
as an adviser for GROW
Since she was young; Stone has had the
gift in taking something simple and turn-
ing it into something beautiful.
"My father, Sam Katz, was an electri-
cian, and back when we were young, the
telephone companies used this fabulous
colored wire. He would bring the wire
home, and I would make rings out of it for

everybody.
"It's all playing to me," she said. "If I see
something I like in the store, I go home
and try to recreate it. Figuring it out is the
fun part for me."
Over time, Stone found many ways to
improve the processes of beading, invent-
ing new techniques and teaching others
what she has learned. She recalls going
to camp at age 9 and teaching all of her
friends to bead.
"I have always loved to teach others
what I've discovered: she said.
Early on, she made what is commonly
called "daisy chains," a pattern of beads
that resemble a flower. In her current
work, she makes what she refers to as
"daisy chains all grown up" — a more
sophisticated version. She gets a kick out
of taking a traditional stitch and putting
her own spin on it. Playing this way has
caused her to develop and teach many new
techniques.
"Beth is one of the most talented people
I have ever met in my life: Wendy Bakst
of Huntington Woods said proudly of her
friend. "We were at a Tigers game one
night with our husbands and Beth brought
her beads along to teach me how to bead.
She very calmly sat there talking to me
and teaching me, and before the fourth
inning ending, she handed me the most
beautiful, magnificent pendant."

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workshop she taught that inspired her to
write an "idea book."
"I have no doubt that this is my calling,"
she said. "I love what I do. It's been quite
an evolution. I actually learn more from
my mistakes, and some of my favorite
pieces are a result of a mistake."
Stone's favorite quote comes from
cartoonist Scott Adams: "Creativity is
allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is
knowing which ones to keep."
Her jewelry will be available for pur-
chase on Oct. 4 at Women of Vision,
National Council for Jewish Women's bou-
tique from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at Temple
Beth El in Bloomfield Hills. n

For individual and small group instruction,

contact Stone at Bethstone.com , email her at

bnshdl@msn.com or go to her Facebook page:

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National Reputation
Her work became so well respected that by
1999 she was published in Bead&Button,
a trade magazine. Her work was then fea-
tured in Bead Style, another trade maga-
zine, for three years straight.
As time went on, Stone once again
felt drawn to spend more of her time
developing stitches, techniques and
innovative ways to use seed beads. While
doing so, she created an entire portfolio
of work that she submitted to Kalmbach
Publishing Co. for publication in its mag-
azines. They liked it so much they asked
her if she would consider publishing a
book instead.
In 2007, they published Seed Bead
Stitching and, in 2009, her second book,
More Seed Bead Stitching was released.
She recently self-published her third book,
Bead, Play & Love, based on a three-day

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