Still More- We Got the Bead!

Robin, of We Got the Bead, is a new supplier for me, but has already turned into a very nice online friend! She closed her store, so that her DH could get on with his soon-due project, and she can be home with her children when need be. I am so glad she decided to do online selling, as she has the nicest selection of Jeans thread, Japanese seed beads (15s, 11s, 8s and 6s!) in great colors and finishes, as well as a plethora of other tempting goodies, like these crinkly round wavy metal bits, that are just crying out to be used in a bracelet similar to those shown in the latest beady magazines!

Her prices, without or without a sale, are awesome, and her shipping is free over $40! Everything came nicely packed, easily undone and drooled over...especially those permanent finish 8s and 11s in gold! I wanted to have those particular beads to do a Paso Doble bracelet, as I don't want to make something and have the finish come off!

Robin also included two vials of seed beads as a gift; a sweet matte peach 11 and a transparent peach 15!

Enjoy the pics, click on them to make them full-size, then get thee hence to http://wegotthebead.com/ and see what treasures YOU can find! Tell her Aryd'ell sent ya!

Oh, and you get bead bucks!! A buck for every $10 you spend, with no stipulations except an expiration date! Now that is a great incentive!

Gotta Have 'Em Beads and What to Do With Them

You know the ones I mean...the ones you have no clue as to how you will use them, you probably can't afford to buy them right now, but you go ahead and add them to your stash, taking them out now and then to admire, then put back into hiding?

The sharp-edged faceted AB beads, both in oval and triangular shapes, were just those beads a couple of years back. They had just hit the wholesale market, and at the wholesale show in Franklin, NC, they screamed 'buy me'!! Wouldn't you know, that was not a good money year for us, and I had pooled my little bit of 'extra' cash, plus a tiny amount on a credit card, just in case. The show had just opened, and it was in the new steel frame building, that was covered with a permanent sort of building-shaped tarp. The steel interfered with cell phone service, as well as any of the vendors being able to use their credit card machines. This poor younger woman not only had to put up with me drooling all over her new style glass beads, but then to add insult to injury, couldn't even run my card to let me buy them! I was heartbroken, didn't have enough cash, and turned to leave when she offered to take my number and run it later..usually that is something I prefer to not do, but I let my greed for those beads take over, and walked away with squares, triangles and oval rectangles in two colors!

She was as good as her word, ran the card after the show, and mailed me my receipt.

I never knew what to do with the beads until I ran into these 3 hole, 3 bump greenish purple Czech pressed glass beads from Silver Armadillo!

Voila! This necklace practically made itself!

I had to add a couple of Czech ovals to fill in, but had exactly the right number, in the right colors, to do that.

It fits like a dream, and is blingy enough to satisfy any Mardi Gras cravings!

Enjoy!!