The Bead House
Beads - Jewelry - Metal Arts




KO Design is the design name for Kim Otterbein.  
Kim has had a  love for  beads all her life and still has a baggie of seed beads from the 1960's.  Kim's training as a textile designer and painter seems to blend right in with jewelry making.  While always interested in beads, she is also involved in metals, PMC, and polymer.  Color, pattern and fibers have always attracted her attention.  She needs to create jewelry out of what is exciting to her at the moment.  Every day brings something new, an idea, a stitch, a technique.  There are never enough hours in the day!
Click here to see the KO Design Gallery.

Over the past two years Kim has been featured in the following publications;
Bead & Button - June 2005 - "Casual Clusters"
Bead & Button - October 2005 - "A Cluster of Dangles"
Belle Armoire - March/April 2006 - "Multi-Strand Necklace"
Art Jewelry - May 2006 - "Color Fusion"
Beadwork - June/July 2006 - "Tasseled Turquoise"
Art Jewelry - July 2006 - "Building Pyramids"
Bead & Button - October 2006 - "Copper Clusters"
Step by Step Wire Jewelry - Fall 2006 - "Delightful, Delicious, De-lovely"
Polymer Cafe - Winter 2006/07 - "Felted Bead Necklace"
Bead & Button - February 2007 - "Domed Metal Clay Earrings with Cabochon"
Beadwork - April/May 2007 - "Knotted Collage Necklace"
Bead & Button - June 2007 - Polymer and Metal Clay Earrings"

You can see each of the articles by clicking on the respective title.
Kim is the primary teacher of our classes and workshops sharing her wide range of knowledge and experience in Beading, Knotting, Wire Wrapping and Polymer Clay.  She is a certified instructor of Precious Metal Clay (PMC) and also a silversmith.  Kim is  available for private lessons, one on one or a small group.
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PMC Rings