January's Featured Web site is Vicki's Beads, a Russian bead artist. Click on the Fairy Tale Forest (first row, left) to see details of this amazing creation. Click on the link at the bottom of the forest thumbnails for even more photos.

Click on the Bouquet (second row, left) to see more bouquets. At the bottom of this page there is a link to page 2 of beaded flowers. There are 5 pages of beaded flowers.

Click on the Simpsons pictures for 2 pages beaded flowers and butterflies.

Click on the penguins for 4 pages of 3-dimensional beaded animals, birds, and fish.

BeadStudio has instructions for a simple Victorian technique flower. For more free beaded flower pattern links see the article FREE Beaded Flower Patterns on the Web.

The cover photo is now available for More French Beaded Flowers by Dalene Kelly and The Art of French Beaded Flowers: Creative Techniques for Making 30 Beautiful Blooms by Carol Benner Doelp.

Also scheduled for release in 2004 is Bouquets from Beads by Virginia Osterland and New Patterns for Bead Flowers and Decorations by Virginia Nathanson.