Kudos to those who participated in the Bead a Shower challenge! The challenge for June is Bead a Bug (due March 22, 2006); the challenge for August is Bead a Fashion Icon (due May 24, 2006). If you are up for the challenge, send photos of your creation to Bead Boy, Interweave, 201 E. Fourth St., Loveland, CO 80537-5655; send digital images to dustinw@interweave.com.

See more readers' work in the Bead Boy Sidekicks Gallery.

Dustin Wedekind's
Meteor Shower Necklace

April Showers Bring Forth May Flowers by Lynn Davy
Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England

Raining Cats and Cats
by Lynn Moore, via e-mail

A found object—a squashed ring—turned into a showerhead pendant by Hannah Benninger, via e-mail

Sunshower
by Sheli Janik
Dallas, Texas

Walking in the Rain
by Elaine M. Hammer
Fruit Heights, Utah

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