Bead Kits

We’ve mostly recuperated from our weekend festivities with ISGB, and our focus is now redirected to the Milwaukee show. We’ve got a smaller show in Portland, Maine in a couple of weeks – but that will be “easy beads” compared to Milwaukee. Sandra is madly torching away every spare moment she can find, and I’m busy constructing kits. We had them available at the Marlboro show last weekend, and they were quite the hit.

Crafters seem to like finding a one-stop treasure. We began the kit project when we had a customer who bought a focal bead from us, then had to scamper from one table to the next to find appropriate clasps, seed beads, tools, etc., before she could even begin to create her masterpiece. Far be it from us to neglect that opportunity.  I spent hours creating some lovely pieces of jewelry.  We now have a line of all-in-one necklace kits in a wide array of color schemes to satisfy the do-it-yourself jewelry crafter.  

Our triple stranded necklace was particularly fun to make.  It combines coordinating seed beads and silver findings, to highlight an exquisite focal bead.  One of the beauties of stringing your own jewelry is that you’ll have just the right length of your choice.  Also, the bead that we choose to include in our kit may or may not be the one you’d like.  We can easily replace a focal bead with a similar matching bead from our inventory to complete your kit to your satisfaction.

Next step – getting them onto The BeadsNest site for sale.