ISBN 0-9646077-1-9, Softcover, 17 pages, $7.95 plus $2.50 shipping, Beautiful Beads, 115 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55401, phone 612-333-0170, Fax 612-333-8122

Diane Fitzgerald is an accomplished beading artist and author. She dedicated this book to Horace Goodhue of St. Paul, Minnesota. Goodhue was one of the first beaders to actually put down in print how to do beading techniques. We owe many thanks to him. Diane was fortunate enough to meet him and she tells us a story about it in her introduction. Goodhue inspired her to figure out how to recreate this type of beading on the loom and she did just that. Fitzgerald gives you a list of supplies and tools required to get started. Next she lists weaving and beading terms used in her book. She includes a complete diagram of a loom and the way the warp and weft threads move. Now you begin warping the loom with thread and in some cases adding beads too. Fitzgerald gives you very easy to follow diagrams for adding your beads to the piece and includes every single step you need to make the piece. She adds side views of the piece on the loom for easy comprehension. She explains how to add new thread along with diagrams. Then she explains finishing and adding a closure instructions which includes how to use ultrasuede or leather as a backing. This is a very easy to follow book. It is a great guide for working on the loom. Fitzgerald has revived a design and set it down in print so we can all enjoy it. The cover page has a beadacious sea anemone bracelet that certainly demonstrates Fitzgerald's expertise in color. You can take the basic design and make many bracelets, extend it longer and make a choker or belt or make it shorter and it becomes a pin. I saw examples people had created from Fitzgerald's book at a recent workshop where I was teaching and it was hard not to touch and rub those little caterpillar forms. Contemporary Beadwork II: Sea Anemone Beadwork is definitely going onto the Beadwrangler's Bookshelf.