Some real beads this week – traditional beads like flowers and leaves and firepolish donuts. Pretty novel, for a bead store, right?

These pretty flower beads inspired me to do this:

I am going to mount it in a shadow box – although, I have to admit – I kind of want to go berserk and keep going with it from here. The pendant stone is the Poppy Jasper Square Donut – Rosemary rejected this one as being damaged, so I decided to have a go with it.

For the embellishment, I grabbed some Delicas – 10/0 Japanese Cylinders – Dyed Light Smoke Grey Silver Lined Alabaster (tube), Delicas – 10/0 Japanese Cylinders – Matte Metallic Patina Iris (5 grams), and some Delicas – 10/0 Japanese Cylinders – Opaque Limestone Luster (tube)

The stick is courtesy of my dogs, that bring me a constant barrage of stuff in the hopes that something will get them a treat.

Other goodies this week – these strands of mixed Glass Beads – Random Shapes – Green Lumi (strand) are a nice casual chic combo – just begging to be a bracelet.

Pressed Glass – glass beads that get their shape from being pressed into shape from molten glass – as opposed having the glass cut away by a faceting machine. If you don’t want the shape of flowers, how about flowers on your beads?

Leaves – these are the “classic” leaf – a staple of bead embroidery, embellishment, haute couture, and Czech-inspired boho jewelry. I think of them as the “airplane” leaves, see the airplane pattern in the veins – with little motion “zoomicles” coming out the back? Ha ha – now you can’t “un-see” it, can you? Honestly – we have lots of leaf beads and flower beads to choose from, in colors from naturalistic to not-even-remotely.

I used to focus on black flowers in my garden – black pansies, black tulips, etc. Nowadays – I have a black dog (and two more that are mostly black) that make gardening a challenge. If it can grow after being sat on, run over, or dug up – I consider it a win – whatever its color.

And, maybe a few nice clasps to go with those beads?

Nothing takes a simple bracelet and kicks it up a notch like a nice clasp. This simple toggle with a imitation opal is a nice choice. And this pearl version is nice too!

If you have been admiring this froggy clasp, we now have in it brass, for almost half the price of the gold-plated version.

Likewise, this showy Gingko-themed toggle clasp, Bright Brass, vs Sterling Silver

And this clasp, not quite so big a difference pricewise, because the gold plated one is old stock from before the price of gold went up. We won’t be able to re-stock it at that price!

We have no equivalent for this owl clasp though. We have other owls aplenty, mind you.

Maybe a pussy-cat to go with those owls? The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to bead some beautiful pea-green beads.

There is a few more items, oh, and a shout out to Laura, who wanted to buy the rest of the GoodFelt beading foundation colors as singles instead of packs – available now! 😉 You, too, are welcome to make product suggestions!

Cheers!

Don’t forget to check out the Manager’s specials, on sale to make room for new stuff. These are selling fast – don’t dawdle! Scoop ’em up!

Rhombus Beads – 50% off

Wire Lace (Woven Wire Ribbon) 50% off

Soutache Cord – 50% off

Rivets ‘n’ Stuff (Selected items) – 50%

Cali beads – 50% off.

Bow Beads – 50% off

Link Beads – 50% off

Can’t find what you are looking for? Feel free to just email us and ask!

Bead shopping in the time of COVID-19 – This Week – July 2

Where did the year go? Oh yeah – quarantine and isolation. It’s a different world now, that’s for sure. We hope you had a lovely Canada Day, and stayed safe while enjoying the weather. And a Happy and safe Fourth of July as well.

Hours:

Open for in-store Shopping – Wednesday – Saturday 11-6. Reservations preferred.

Wear a mask | Social distance | Hand sanitizer at the door.

Closed Sunday.

Monday & Tuesdays, we will be in-store picking and shipping. Curbside pick up available 11-6. No in-store access.

We are back up to speed in picking and shipping. Canada Post states on their website: “Customers should anticipate delays as important safety measures, including physical distancing, means it takes longer to process heavy parcel-volumes.” Sigh.

Online orders, pre-paid only, can be picked up curbside 11-6, Monday – Friday.

• If you are local – you should see an option to select “Store Pick-up/Walk in” in the shopping cart as the shipping method. You will not be charged for shipping, even if you are under the free shipping limit.
• If, for some reason, you do not see the option for “Store Pick-up/Walk in” – say, your address on file falls outside the computer’s definition of “local,” but you still want to come and get it, then you can choose “call-back” as an option, and tell us you want to pick it up in the comment box, and we will remove the shipping, and call you for payment info.
• We will call when it is ready and arrange a pick-up window of time. Pick-ups will be on Mondays to Fridays, 11-6 pm.

Phones are being answered Monday through Saturday (11 am – 6 pm). If you need answers about does “this” go with “that,” just ask and we will try to help.

You are all awesome – we are profoundly grateful for your support and happy to be part of creative process, or coping strategy, as the case may be!

We love your little notes of appreciation – we treasure every one of them.

Stay Safe!

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