Beau begins this bead with clear glass tubing, lines it with colored glass, and then closes the tube to form the bead. He decorates the outer surface with rings of offset layered dots before drawing them down to produce the centrally terminated design. Gently raised black accent dots complete the bead.

Barbara Becker Simon is a collector of quotes. She turns these quotes into beads through the sgraffito technique.

Bruce St. John Maher is a seventh-generation jeweler. He enjoys working with opal inlay in a variety of gemstones, such as obsidian, poppy jasper, and labradorite. He mined this volcanic rock from Mt. Lassen, Calif., in the U.S., and inlaid it with Australian opal.