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July 31, 2008 issue


Beaded Bliss Jewelry Show To Benefit Banner House Museum Saturday


Sales of Beaded Bliss jewelry, handmade by Jennifer Stephenson McLamb, at the Banner House Museum Saturday will benefit the museum. Artist Jennifer Stephenson McLamb will offer her handmade Beaded Bliss jewelry for sale at the Banner House Museum on Saturday, August 2, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Proceeds from the show will benefit the museum. You can take home a treasure and give something to the Banner House Museum at the same time.

McLamb’s globally inspired one-of-a-kind designs include bracelets, necklaces and earrings featuring woven beads, dichroic glass and precious metals. Representing a fusion of ancient spiritual traditions and modern, high-tech materials, McLamb’s designs are drawn from natural elements and esoteric teachings such as sacred geometry, hermetic and spiritual themes.

McLamb grew up in Lexington, Ky., but spent many summers visiting her grandmother, the late Helen Barlow Baucom, who grew up in the 1865 Samuel Henry Banner House. McLamb is also the daughter of the late John Stephenson and Jane Baucom Stephenson, who has a home in Banner Elk.

“Spending time at my grandmother’s childhood home means so much to me,” said McLamb. “After all, it was she who taught me to have patience, which is so important in the creative process I use in making jewelry.”

Beaded Bliss jewelry is sold in galleries across the country and as far away as Japan. To see McLamb’s designs, click to www.jennifermclamb.

For more information about Saturday’s sale, contact Carol Lowe Timblin, executive director of the Greater Banner Elk Heritage Foundation, at 828-898-3634 or ctimblin@bellsouth.net.

 

Want To Go?


Date: Saturday, August 2
Time: 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Banner House Museum, Banner Elk
Cost: Free to attend