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https://elyfolkschool.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/elyfolkschool/event.jsp?event=15737&
Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuition: $33, Materials: $5
Celebrate summer with these customizable flower earrings! You will learn a basic technique using seed beads, thread, and a beading needle while following a pattern. Basic flower making supplies will be provided to complete a pair of earrings. You are encouraged to bring a little matt, cloth, shallow containers /lids or beading trays to keep your beads corralled. Once you have the basics down you can create your own flowers by choosing and mixing colors. You'll end up with a pair of earrings and the knowledge needed to make more or to gift to a friend.
About the Instructor: Daina Antanaitis is a self-taught beading artist who was drawn to beads in her early twenties. She was captivated by the diverse, rich, cultural, global manifestations of beads past and present. Daina started as most do, by stringing beads. Netting and looming on a little hand made loom soon followed. She loved the texture, colors and effects that seed beads produced.
Daina moved to the Ely area with her son to work in the outdoors and never left. Over the next thirty-five years, between working, raising her son, meeting her husband and homesteading, she beaded as able. Daina began beading on leather about twenty years ago, creating “bead paintings”. She also made pouches, shields and bags often as commemorative items for significant life events.
Daina continues to create with beads: netting, stitching, looming and embroidering. Size 11 seed based remain her favorites. She continues to be inspired by: simple and purposeful living, the natural world, Native American beaded art and good books/stories that fuel her vivid imagination.
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