June 2009
30 posts
Glass Beads from 4000 Years Ago in India
The “bead industry” has been around almost as long as humans. Many tales of beads in Egyptian culture as both jewelry and currency. Here is a new article on a discovery in India of a glass bead manufacturing facility from between the 2nd and 3rd century BC. Great stuff if you follow beads.
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Get Ready For Fireworks!
Buy some Red, White & Blue Glass Beads this week for 15% off. You’ll find an ececltic mix of Czech faceted, smooth round, & pressed glass beads. Of course, all Red, White, & Blue! (more or less).
Start your 4th of July Celebration early this year. We’ve all earned it!
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Sparkly Beads....Replenished
We finally restocked some of our most popular “sparkly” beads at abeadstore.com. These Sapphire Multi-Blue Rondelles sold out very quickly a few months ago. Also have more Silver Diamond Beads coming soon and some great Labradorite!
Links to Your ETSY, Artfire stores, websites etc.
We just set up a new category to offer links to YOUR designs and the online stores or websites where you sell your jewelry or craft items. If you have an ETSY or Artfire store or your own website, please join in! We’ll be doing “featured artists”, design contests and much, much more!
Our Friends, Fans & Followers category is just getting started, but we hope to have hundreds...
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Best Selling Metal Components on Sale
We continue to seek out new specials that will entice buyers. This week’s special at ChoiceJewelrySupplies.com is a sale on our Best Selling Metal Components. You’ll find metal beads & findings, wire, chain, and more!
Save 10% on more than 60 items through July 1 with the coupon CJSBESTS.
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Curious about trolls & pandoras
Is anyone out there using Troll or Pandora beads in their designs? Not asking about making a Troll bead bracelet with all their parts and such. Wondering if they are being used at “focal” beads etc. Just curious. Some gorgeous designs in both lines, but very spendy.
Send us a link to your designs that use them and tell us what you think of them!
Now that its Summer.....
It’s time for our ‘Summer Collection’ at abeadstore.com. We’ve assembled more than 100 items for the casual, bold and eclectic looks of summer. Look for brightly colored pearls & coral. We’ve put in some aquamarine, bone beads, ruby’s, lapis and other gemstones. There are many Czech glass beads as well as lampwork beads and glass mixes. Also some Beadalon...
Breakfast at the Beach!
Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles to be exact. I am here for my son’s graduation from high school. Lived in LA for 9 years in the 80’s and the ONLY thing I miss is going to the beach.
It’s a typical “june gloom” day here. The marine layer burns off about 1PM and beaches start to fill up. I took this earlier this morning.
Summer really is here! Enjoy!!
Challenging Image Captures
As many of you know, capturing an accurate representation of jewelry with a scanner or camera can be challenging. We find pearls and precious gems are the most challenging.
This image of some new Dark Blue Sapphire Rondelles took a lot of effort today. Many failed scanner attempts - bad, bad color coming through. Several photo ops in varying times of day and light conditions with our digital...
You Know You Need Them
Every business has essential parts that aren’t glamorous, but they are necessary to produce the products you sell. In the jewelry making business, that’s usually findings. Even with findings, you can buy elegant clasps and connectors, but some stuff is pretty generic. Eye pins, head pins, crimps, jump rings…. boring, but what would you do without them?
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Tweet & Save!
Just experimented with our first Twitter promo. Save 10% on any order at abeadstore.com on June 16 only. Figured we’d post it here as well. Tell your friends!
Buying challenges in Denver!
Our buying trip last week was somewhat challenging. A couple of our major vendors were no shows at the event, so we had to scramble to fill many out of stock items. But, we got buy for now. Lots of restocked gemstone items including the really nice Lapis Heishes in the previous post. More Restocked Beads and New Beads will be posted regularly over the coming days!
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Last Tucson Items Posted!
We finally posted the last of the items we purchased back in February at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Shows! Lots of work….lots of sales. Gotta do it all over again.
One of the challenges with buying gemstones and pearls is replacing them. It can be challenging to find the same items again even from the same sources. Every year we buy some cool new stuff, sell it out, and can’t find...
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Jewelry Projects & Designs Wanted!
We are on the lookout for jewelry designers who want to promote their designs and marketplaces!We’ll add your pictures with a link back to your website, Etsy or Artfire Store etc. Have not quite figured out the “gallery design” yet, but we’ll do that as we see what type of response we get!
We also would love to have some “projects” to feature in our...
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"Play with Your Beads" Video Link →
Just wandering through the vast number of beading sites and blogs on the internet and stumbled on this video by Leslie Rogalski on her Sleepless Beader Blog. Fun and true.
Wondering if there is any place with a consolidated list of blogs & forums for jewelry making? Probably not….. I’ve seen hundreds in the past year. How do people find time to make jewelry, write and make...
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Mid-Week Promotion at ChoiceJewelrySupplies.com
Our customers asked us for more promotions, so we are doing as many promotions as we can without become complete pests. We’ve narrowed things down to a mid-week promo and a weekend promo for now. We may throw out some offers in Twitter and here in DailyBeadBuzz occassionally just to see if anyone is listening ;-)
Through June 17, you can save 15% on all Solid Pewter Beads at...
Lunch with a Boulder artist
Just got back from lunch with a friend of ours who is a painter, sculpter and a just plain creative in everything he does. We talked about the community of jewelry artists we work with every day and the connection between their art and the fine art world he works in. Kevan was evalutating Etsy and whether that makes sense for him as a marketplace. Told him that our recent Jewelry Artist Survey...
Save 15 % on Beads Under $5
Our customers are placing more orders lately. We hope that’s a sign of the economy slowly recovering….or at least having hit the bottom. But, we know you are all looking for deals. This week, we are offering 15% off more than 200 items that list for under $5. You’ll find gemstone chips and rounds, freshwater pearls, glass beads, as well as findings and other jewelry making...
Save on Gem Pendants
All our Gemstone Pendants are on sale through Friday, June 5. Don’t miss this chance to save on a huge selection of semi-precious pendant beads!
About us....
Beaded Impressions operates 4 separate online jewelry supply stores. Shop abeadstore.com for a full selection of all our products. Just need metal beads or jewelry findings? ChoiceJewelrySupplies.com is the place to go. Looking for a huge selection of pearl beads? Try PearlBeadSale.com . Feeling metaphysical? Try the gemstone components from JewelryPlus.net. All our stores offer weekly...
New Beaded Impressions Blog
First steps….baby ones at that. Moving onto themes and personalization.