I've been thinking about jewelry-making lately. Not silversmithing, metal clay or fused-glass jewelry. Nothing that requires kilns or torches, drills or bits, stamps or blades. No goggles or fire ...

Beads – and lots of them – are the perfect accessories for this year’s popular hippie and grunge gear. And the best beads are the one-of-a-kind kind that you string yourself. Stringing beads (and ...

Strings of colorful light bulbs are indispensable decorations during Christmas. Colorful bracelets and necklaces will be the ...

“Do you need help, Alex?” Dominican Sister Annunciata Hawley asks the boy at the desk below the American flag in classroom 5B. Yes, he does. Alex Caison, 10, a fifth-grader at Our Lady of Mount Carmel ...