Liz Browning Fox: Bead weaver, volunteer, radio host

Chelsea Matusko photo

Chelsea Matusko sets up a fl ea market display of her craft items along with Randy Matusko Jr., her boyfriend of 10 years and craft fair partner.

find a pattern on Pinterest, or in a book, I can make it.”

She says the most unique thing she made was when a friend’s child asked for a cat octopus.

“It was basically an octopus with cat ears and I gave it some whiskers,” says Bryant. “She was happy with that.”

And when is the best time to produce her creations?

“Mostly in my free time,” she says. “It’s mostly a hobby for me, so at night we have the kids go read for about an hour before bedtime. That’s when my husband and I will watch an episode or something and I’ll crochet while we’re watching something. And car trips are a great time to crochet as well. If I’m looking at my crochet, I’m not looking at Tony’s driving.” 

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Liz Browning Fox

Bead weaver, volunteer, radio host

Liz Browning Fox makes beautiful things every day.

She’s a bead weaver using international resources. She weaves glass beads and crystals from Austria, the Czech Republic and Japan. She follows or adapts beading designs from around the world and across the United States.

With the international resources, she locally creates pendants, necklaces, bracelets and earrings.

Fox explored bead weaving as a teenager. She returned to it later in life. She now calls her bead weaving “cheap physical therapy.” Liz has arthritis in her fingers and the tactical moves required by beading help.

Fox descends from island families who have lived on Hatteras and Ocracoke for over three centuries. She makes her beaded creations in her home on the Pamlico Sound in Buxton.

She doesn’t spend all her time beading – she also volunteers.

In the winter, she searches for coldstunned sea turtles along the Pamlico Sound shoreline. In the summer and fall, she sits with turtle nests to document hatching.

Her Radio Hatteras show “Celtic! Old World to New Age” has an international following. The show airs at 8 p.m. on Thursdays. She also prepares and voices the station’s “Hatteras Island Sky Watch,” which airs at 7 p.m. weeknights.

See Fox’s beautiful, beaded jewelry at her

by Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy

Liz Browning Fox

Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy photo

Mary Helen Goodloe-Murphy photo

Liz Browning Fox’s beaded creations o ered at Light House Local Artists show feature necklaces and bracelets.