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  • Home
  • The Bead In Hand Store
    • Beading Kits and Instructions
    • Gift Certificates
  • Free Tips & How To's
  • Classes
    • Help Me Choose
    • Basic Earring Design
    • Basic Stringing
    • Beginning Bead Weaving: Peyote Stitch
    • More Beginner Stitches
    • Advanced Bead Weaving Classes >
      • Puffed Triangles & Beyond
    • Bead Embroidery
    • Knotting
    • Kumihimo (Japanese Braiding)
    • Simple Wire Wrapped Stones
    • Rosary Workshop
    • Wire Work with Melody MacDuffee
    • Class Survey
  • Calendar
  • Special Events
    • 2024 Tempestry Project
    • Mother's Day Gift Making
    • What's Blooming On Harrison
    • Dia de Muertos | Harvest on Harrison
    • Holiday Special Events
    • Art & Wine Walk
    • WOW! Women-Owned Works
    • Ava Motherwell Vintage Beads Trunk Show
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Virtual tour
    • Kim's Beading Blog
    • April Fools
    • Links
    • Bead Challenges >
      • 2015 So Soft
      • 2014 LogoCentric
      • 2012 Rock On!
      • 2011 Uniquely Yours
      • 2011 Some Like It Hot
      • 2010 Beaded Calendar Pictures
      • 2008 Going Green Challenge
      • 2007 Beaded Animals
      • 2006 Beaded Good Luck Charms
      • 2005 Beaded Birds
      • 2004 Beaded Flatware
      • 2003 Beaded Hands
      • 2002 Salt and Pepper Shakers
      • 2001 Beaded Cow Creamer
  • Design & Repair Services
  • Hours, Directions & Contact Info

2003 Challenge:  Beaded Hands

Bead In Hand celebrated it's 10th anniversary in 2003, making Beaded Hands a natural theme for this year's challenge.  Same rules, same categories:  The item needed to be composed or adorned primarily with beads.  Customers voted in two categories - age 12 & under, and over age 12.
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Untitled by Lynne Beauprez

OVER AGE 12 CATEGORY

1st Place: The Cat in the Hand

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Taylor Hermes

2nd Place: Sometimes the Right Hand Doesn't Know What the Left is Doing

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By Diane Carter

3rd Place: Untitled

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By Sara Ramos
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3rd place back view

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By Rexene Bertolino

Sparkly Thing

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By Sue Habley

The Hands of Mother Nature

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By Kim Graham

The Serenity Tree (He's Got the Whole World in His Hand(s))

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By Colleen Platt

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By Lynn Beauprez

Yes This is the Size of a Door

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By Julia Schaefer

UNDER AGE 12 CATEGORY

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By Natalia Lang
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