Design & Adorn Beading Studio

07/22/2026

Have you entered yet?

🎉 Midsummer Markey 2026 Giveaway — 12 Winners, $600 in Prizes!

We’re celebrating a hot summer for creative exploration with TWELVE lucky winners — each receiving a fabulous $50 prize package (that’s a $600 total retail value!).

✨ Enter here for the OFFICIAL TGBE 2026 GIVEAWAY:
👉 www.thegreatbeadextravaganza.com

Each winner will be personally paired with one of our amazing TGBE presenters, who will gift them a special prize valued at $50.

This giveaway is generously brought to you by The Great Bead Extravaganza presenters — a huge thank you for supporting our creative community!

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https://www.beadshop.com/

https://www.jillmackay.com/

https://softflexcompany.com/

https://www.silversilkonline.com/

https://designandadorn.com/

https://www.beadplace.net/

https://www.humblebeads.com/

https://greengirlstudios.com/

https://beadorea.com/

https://www.christifriesen.com/

https://www.makeryarts.com/

Finally, please remember that we will not contact you through messenger or ask for any money in regards to our giveaways. Winners will be posted on the TGBE page after the event. You are trading your email address to all of the presenters for your entry to win. We are also collecting your address in the event a prize needs to be mailed.

Good luck!

07/19/2026

Learn how to embellish a beautiful kumihimo necklace!

07/17/2026

Join us for the Preview Party tonight!
5pm AZ / Pacific time
6pm Mountain
7pm Central
8pm Eastern

07/17/2026

Pre-Orders are now open for our TGBE Midsummer Market kit: The Prestige Collar!

https://designandadorn.com/products/prestige

Available in 12 gorgeous colorways!

Join me for a live demo on Saturday to see how to make and embellish this beautiful necklace.

Save 20% off ALL kumihimo jewelry kits now through Monday, July 20th with discount code: TGBE-Kits-20

07/14/2026

New Prestige Collar kits launching this week AND I'm giving a live demonstration on Saturday as part of The Great Bead Extravaganza!

06/05/2026

Yes! Our first reprint of Beaded Kumihimo Jewelry (2020) has arrived!

https://designandadorn.com/products/book-beaded-kumihimo-jewelry-by-rebecca-ann-combs

05/27/2026

At the intersection of art, physics, chaos, and luck you'll find the amazing Forged in Fire kumihimo necklace.

Raku refers to a special pottery firing process in which the pendants are removed from a hot kiln and quickly placed in a metal container filled with shredded paper, sawdust, leaves, or any other flammable material. The combustible materials burst into flames and are allowed to burn briefly before a lid is placed over the container. As the oxygen burns up around the pendants, the glazes reduce and transform into a metallic state resulting in wonderful flashes of color. The smoke from the fire pushes into cracks and blackens unglazes sections of the pottery. You never know exactly how the fire, smoke, and glaze will interact and so it's a bit of a surprise every time.

The Forged in Fire necklace places one of these incredible raku pendants front and center. You'll tie your cords directly to the pendant and immediately begin a beaded braid that smoothly shifts from one color to another as you make your way to the back of the necklace.

05/26/2026