Vonda N. McIntyre is best known as a writer of science fiction. Her 1997 book, The Moon and the Sun, won the Nebula Award for best novel. She also has an intriguing hobby—creating intricately crinkled ...

Earlier this month, the UK government called for a ban on plastic microbeads to be enforced by 2017, following reports that they were toxic. And it appears that microplastics could be causing much ...

Local artist Christy Puetz deals in beads. Her delicate and painstakingly detailed creatures come from a variety of backgrounds and stories. In 2011, she created a collection of “shapeshifting” ...

Hands of 13-year-old Stephanie St. Dennis (above) create a “bead creature’ for a porch sale that she and her friends held on Newport Street, Northampton. At left, 6-year-old twins Kayla and Kortney ...

It all started with George the Giraffe, which Nana Julie made for her grandsons Seb (7) and Ralph (5) at the start of the first lockdown in England. She has now made more than 200 bead creatures. This ...