Minnesota Library Conference Session 2

Northern Bright Jewelry Class
WOW!! What a great workshop! Paige told us how she became a designer of purses, jewelry and many more products.

Paige also gave us some background on her love of jewelry and her many beads and buttons. She has beads from India, Africa, Czech Republic just to mention a few. She also explained about how to chose what color, size and amount of beads go best together for a wonderful finished product. It took longer to pick out what we wanted than it did to string it all together.
All six in the class had different taste and style of bracelets and like what each other had designed. We then strung them on elastic thread, learned how to tied it all together, and learned how to best hide the knot. I had such fun I also paid for additional beads to make another beautiful bracelet. I received many compliments on my bracelet for conference-goers Thank you Paige for all of your help!

I would highly recommend this jewelry class to anyone. If you and your friends would like to a project to do together this would be great. Just call her store and make arrangements.

Northern Brights707 W. St. Germain St. St. Cloud, MN 56301 Phone: 320.654.1814 Our hours are Mon-Fri 10-6 & Sat 10-4. Hope to see you soon! http://www.northernbrights.com/

I also included some information on her store.

About the Northern Brights Store.
The Northern Brights boutique opened in spring of 2007 in a hundred year old building in the Historic Arts District of downtown Saint Cloud, Minnesota. It was a six month journey restoring the building where the store is in the front and the production studio is in the rear. We exposed the original tin ceilings, refurbished the hardwoood maple floors, and hung ceiling fans and crystal chandeliers.

The store is an eclectic mix of the Northern Brights accessory collections, handcrafted jewelry, one-of-a-kind artisans pieces, handmade clothing, fair trade items and other assorted lines of jewelry, scarves, handbags, clothing, gifts and cards. The 13-foot antique counter that the cash register sits on was salvaged from a turn-of-the-century dry goods store in Hibbing, Minnesota. It wouldn't be unusual to see earrings hanging from birdcages, handbags displayed on a garden arbor, or garments hung from wrought-iron screens.