Swarovski - New Colour

A new colour from Swarovski - a warm dark ale colour, a rich brown transparent chestnut that gleams with the richness of polished wood. Try this with copper pearls or gold findings. Very nice.

• 4 mm Faceted Round (5000) - Mocca
• 6 mm Faceted Round (5000) - Mocca
• 8 mm Faceted Round (5000) - Mocca
• 4 mm Faceted Bicone (5301) - Mocca
• 8 mm Faceted Bicone (5301) - Mocca
• 4 mm Faceted Cube (5601) - Mocca
• 6 mm Faceted Cube (5601) - Mocca
• 8 mm Faceted Cube (5601) - Mocca
• 6 mm Top-Drilled Bicone (6301) - Mocca

Kate McKinnon

Kate McKinnon will be here, teaching this week, and we are very pleased to also be able to offer her book on working with metal clay.

Actually, we have a number of new books - for instance, this new book on fine silver fusing. If you are fascinated and intimidated by the thought of silver soldering, then you may find that silver fusing - that uses fine silver instead of sterling - may appeal to you a great deal.

And for those that are fascinated with those bunchy, bushy glass bead bracelets, or for those that took Stephanie Sersich's class and now can't find their notes! - we have her new book with, yes, instructions for her "Spiny Knotted Bracelet," among others!

Drusy Cabochons

Drusy is quartz crystals that occur on the surface of stones, often found inside geodes - those hollow "thunder eggs" that can be split open to reveal their treasures inside. These have been flashed with a metallic coating at high temperature to make them look spectactular and other-worldly.

On Sale this Week

Copper! Copper Bright, Copper Antiqued. Solid Copper, Copper plated. Copper findings and copper beads. We have a wide selection of copper, because we think it's really cool! This week only, 10% off.

• Copper Beads
• Copper Findings

Bloggin' It

We've added a blog to our website (which, you may have figured out, as you are now reading it!) We done this before when we were doing the renovations - but then they were done and we stopped. Now, we're going to be keeping you in the loop on a daily basis, online (so you don't get daily emails from us.) Set beadfx.com to be your home page in your browser and check us out every day! Writing will be split amongst a number of us here, sometimes with Jen writing, sometimes moi, and sometimes our buyer or Erin or whoever has something to say.

CreativeFX Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the CreativeFX challenge:

• Betsy L for Botticelli's Palette
• Tina B for Moonlit Garden

The Botticelli's Palette sure spoke to a lot of you - and I was very impressed that we got our first non-jewellery submission - check out Amy's beautiful art doll submission! Remember folks, it doesn't have to be jewellery!

New colourways coming soon!

Discontinuing the Czech Bugles

We are discontining the Czech-made bugle beads - although we will continue to carry and expand our line of Japanese bugles. Consequently, the bugles are now discounted 30% until we have sold them out. Check them out on our discontinued page!

Congratulations New ACS Level 1

Congratulations to Rosemary and the other students that took the Art Clay Level 1 Certification class. Rosemary told me that she had to work really hard to get her certification as she kept breaking stuff in the class and having to repair it. She is now confident that she can fix anything! This sounds exactly like what Jen went through when she was certified! There is always a silver-lining - in this case, it is a pure Silver Art Clay lining!

Cheers! As always - look for the New tags!