Hello Beautiful Beaders, I hope you’ve all had a lovely month and managed to get outside and enjoy the fleeting heatwave that we had. It’s been great to see a few more of you venturing out of your homes since my last blog. I hope that my reassurances of our store safety practises played some …
Hello Beautiful Beaders, Gosh it seems like only yesterday that we were in full lockdown. Slowly but surely the world is opening its business doors back up, but it is quite rightly a cautious process. We are so lucky to be in a large retail space which lends itself to having a one way system. …
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom – we want you in our work-room! Read More »
Hello Beautiful Beaders, I don’t know about you but last week’s youth climate strike really hit a chord with me. Like many of you I try to be as environmentally friendly as I can. It’s not too late for us to reverse some of the effects our generation have impacted on this beautiful world. The …
Hello Beautiful Beaders, This week I’d like to talk about Shop Local. This is not a new craze, it is what it says in the tin; use your local shops rather than buy from larger nationalised companies. I am passionate about this and I strongly believe that the service we provide as a local store, …
Hello Beautiful Beaders, It’s been a while since I talked about my favourite subject in the whole wide world, so this week I thought I’d treat you to a Kumihimo catch up! As most of you know I heard about Kumihimo, the Japanese art of braiding, around 10 years ago and have been braiding like …
Hello Beautiful Beaders, In this week’s blog I’m going to be talking about Afternoon Tea. A strange topic you might say for a Bead company? Not when you consider that our latest and most popular workshop day has become the fabulous ‘Crafternoon Tea’. These fun packed days marry our most favourite things; Beading, crafting and …
A Duchess, some cake and Riverside Beads….the Movie!! Read More »
