I've been thinking about jewelry-making lately. Not silversmithing, metal clay or fused-glass jewelry. Nothing that requires kilns or torches, drills or bits, stamps or blades. No goggles or fire ...

ON the long, lovely necks of ramp models, sewn onto chic evening bags and worked into intricate needlepoint designs, beads are back. Actually, they never went away. But they have been making a big ...