Bead & Button Magazine

Pros: Gorgeous pictures and detailed articles
Cons: Too many advertisements, not enough ideas

This magazine makes me salivate such as when I read a cooking
magazine. Luscious pictures of beaded creations and a terrific
selection of crafty ideas.

I got into making beaded jewelry about 6 months ago and fell
in love with...

Pros: Beautiful projects, interesting articles, instructions usually clear & easy to follow
Cons: only 6 issues/year! I want one every week!

Addiction. It's a word that's tossed around a lot nowadays - you got your sex addicts, your drug addicts, your gambling addicts, your thrill addicts...such a somber subject, such grim and life-destroying issues. But bead addiction - now...

Pros: great pictures, awesome projects in a range of skill levels and techniques
Cons: if you're not interested in full-range beading might be a bit you can't use

Hello, my name is Rebecca and I'm a beadaholic. My addiction started about fifteen years ago. It began harmless enough...I just thought I'd pick up a few seed beads and make a 4-H project to put in the fair. I never knew it would end up ruling my ...

Pros: Wonderful source of inspiration; good instructions; something for beaders at all levels; value for money
Cons: Many projects not my taste "out-of-the-box"; articles don't give sources for materials

I have subscribed to Bead & Button since its very first issue back in 1994, and I have kept every single copy. Why? Because I LOVE to look at this magazine.

I consider myself to be an intermediate-level beader, and a lot of what I have...

Pros: Beautiful photos, well described beading projects.
Cons: May be a bit advanced for beginners.

I started receiving Bead and Button magazine when it was first published in 1994. I still have the premiere issue as well as all of the issues that have been published since then. I would never part with a single issue! At that time I was a bead hobbyist ...

Pros: Variety of projects,etc. EYE CANDY!! Excellent product resource. Inspiring. For beginner and expert alike.
Cons: Only 6 issues a year. Some people have problems with all the ads. I don't.

Bead & Button magazine debuted in February 1994. Back then it consisted of 31 pages, covered only 7 projects, had NO (yes, I said NO) advertising and cost $3.95. A little expensive for what it offered, but hard core beaders appreciated the eye-candy ...

Pros: detailed instructions, lots of ads offering supplies, loaded with information
Cons: needs to be a 24 or 36 time a year magazine

I am not in love with this magazine, I'm in lust! I can't wait for my next issue to arrive, they could produce it twice a month and it wouldn't be enough! But then, I guess you have to be adicted to beading to understand that!

I have...

Pros: Good photos and project instructions, ads tell you where to get supplies
Cons: A little expensive for a thin magazine

Be original..Make your own jewelry from beads. Beads collecting is addictive, and jewelry design is fun and easy to learn. Bead and Button tells you what to do with your collection and gives good instructions on how to do it.

This is a...

Pros: projects, reader artwork
Cons: too many ads

This specialty magazine inspires the beader by new projects and artist profiles. The title says bead and button, though it is almost unusual to read an article on buttons. This is definitely for the avid beader. While I enjoy seeing new project ideas,...

Pros: Great source of inspiration. Well edited.
Cons: Only six issues a year.

I have been a subscriber to Bead & Button for many years now. I have bought issues of other beading magazines like Jewelry Crafts and Beadwork, but I feel that Bead & Button is the best.

It always has a wide variety of projects, from...

Pros: The whole magazine
Cons: Not Enough issues! I want MORE!

I have been a beader for over 5 years. For the first part of my hobby I was VERY frustrated when I wasn't able to get books that didn't cost me a fortune to help me with my basic beading skills. Then a friend introduced me to Beads & Buttons. I...