SABOS 2012 SPRING BEAD BAZAAR! 

SABOS is accepting applications now for the 2012 Spring Bead and Jewelry Bazaar.

The 2012 Spring Bead Bazaar will be Saturday, May 5 & Sunday May 6 at the Live Oak Civic Center (map).

Hours:
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

Vendor Setup Hours:
Friday 9am - 6pm 

Free Admission for all and generous discounts for SABOS members!

If you are interested in vending at this event, please read and sign the regulations and this APPLICATION and mail both in to the address listed on the form. Download the vendor application form by clicking here. If you have any questions, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Please note: Booth fees are subject to change January 1, 2012.

DEADLINE TO SIGN UP IS APRIL 13, 2012! Be sure to get your application in before then!

Event details may change as we are still in the early planning stages. Please check back often for updates.

NEW Info on Call for Instructors and Demonstrators for the show! 

SABOS has issued a call for jewelry enthusiasts to apply to be instructors and/or demonstrators for the Bazaar.  For details,

CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTOR INFO AND APPLICATION

CLICK HERE FOR DEMONSTRATOR INFO AND APPLICATION

SABOS members have generously agreed to support “project prom jewelry” in which we will make and donate jewelry for teens whose foster parents can not afford prom dresses and accessories. 

The prom dress program is sponsored by the Preparing for Adult Living project of Child Protective Services in San Antonio. Member at Large Denise Moreland suggested the project, since she works for Adult Protective Services and saw a need for jewelry to complete the prom attire. 

Last year more than 100 young women were able to select dresses and shoes in the annual event, but there was not enough jewelry to go around.  Representatives of the program explained the program at the October SABOS meeting.  They are supervisor Nadine Terry and PAL coordinators Dawn Ramirez and Cherelle Herber. 

This is an opportunity for SABOS members to share their unique talents with young San Antonio women…and help them feel like princesses when they go to the prom. We’ll be collecting prom dresses for the late March event, but more importantly, well make and donate jewelry. 

Our February general meeting will be “Beading for a Cause.”  You can bring dresses and finished pieces for donation, and we’ll be making jewelry as the meeting activity.  Start collecting your shiny, glitzy beads and components.  It will be a fun night of beading together. 

Julia Kearney and Denise Moreland are co-chairing this project and will be available to pick up jewelry, dresses or supplies if members are not able to make the February meeting.  This will be a great follow up to our participation in the San Antonio Food Bank’s Harvest of Hope fundraiser, when we were able to donate more than $1,000 in jewelry. 

If you have specific questions about the CPS prom project…or have suggestions on other sources of support for CPS, feel free to contact Nadine Terry at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

SABOS 20th Anniversary Celebration Recognizes Past Presidents; Coincides with Donation to San Antonio Food Bank

 SABOS celebrated its 20th anniversary during the general meeting September 14, which included recognition of past presidents, cake and punch, a review of the changes in beading over the last 20 years by founding President Peggy Mahan, and a display of memorabilia and previous entries in the President's Bead Challenge.

Erica Benavedes of the San Antonio Food Bank was on hand to receive the beaded artworks valued at more than $1,000 donated by more than 30 members to be sold in the organization's annual Harvest of Hope September 25.