Wire Wrapped Pendant

The gorgeous pendant was crafted
by Plants & Prisms, using our
specialty wires - we stock not
just round, but square, half round,
and flat as well! |
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Stacked Bracelets

Stacking bracelets - a strectch
bracelet made from crystals,
a Czech bead bracelet on softflex
with a clasp, and Nia's own op-shop
find - a silver leaf bracelet. |
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Flapper Necklaces

Queen Bead, all beaded up and ready for
a date with her handsome husband!
Wearing her 'oldie but goodie'
flapper style necklaces. |
French Flowers

Stunning Poppies from Hark - Botanical
Sculpture. Made using our seed beads
with French flower techniques.
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Linnie visited us this recently, wearing these gorgeous earrings she made from a combination of our Artistic Wire and Craft Wire.
You can see she has beaten the wire for both strength and visual appeal, and made a paddle pin for the bead - beating the wire so it splays out at the end and acts like a headpin.
We do love seeing what you make!
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Hannah swung by Nia's place one morning to pick up all the printing for the day, and we just had to share her gorgeous necklace with you. A strand of faceted semi-precious, with a brass cross and a few brass spacers, bead caps, and tiger eye beads to break it up . . . such a great combination for a super lovely Taranaki day!
Strung on medium softflex with 1.5mm crimps and a parrot clasp with extender chain. Neatly finished with 4mm crimp covers.
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Butterfly Shawl Pin
Debbie was up at the shop - all the way from Christchurch! - and showed me this stunning
butterfly brooch she created with our Delica beads, mounted on a stickpin.
A gift, with the shawl, for a 90th birthday. We love everything about it!
Daisy Necklace

Hannah and Niki have been making these gorgeous floral necklaces, Hannah for a
wedding in whites and Niki in delicate jonquil and peridot because she wanted to!
A very relaxing project with an easy repeat.
YouTube tutorial here
Pincushion and Scissor Keeper
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A wooden cotton reel turned into a wee pincushion and scissor keeper! A lovely customer came up the stairs to get daffodil yellow beads for this gorgeous project. One end of the reel has stuffing for the pins/needles and the other she has left the label in and the hole makes it a scissor keeper. Lovely embroidery and bead embellishments! |

Two scrappy necklaces of old seed pearls that had been living in a drawer turned into 3 double stranded beauties complete with sterling claps. Special gifts for three granddaughters, completed by Hannah for a very happy customer. |

Niki made this gorgeous necklace using our new Lemon Serpentine chips and 4mm milky lime facet beads. Strung on green Griffin pearl stringing thread. Niki says the ends aren't as tidy as she'd like, but given it's her first time making this style (she free formed from a YouTube video), we think it's pretty good! |
Embeaded Knitting
Sue came to visit from Cambridge to match beads to her glorious silk/mohair yarn. She plans to add beads to the bottom scallops to helpweigh the yarn down a little. So gorgeous!
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Beads & Crosstitch
A customer from Kerikeri came to visit to match beads to her cross stitch, stitched and beaded critters are to fill the blank space.
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Pincushions
Donna has been coming up the stairs and buying lots of tiny size
15/0 Miyuki seed beads and other lovely wee beads, then using them
to embellish these gorgeous pincushions! Such a talented woman,
her work is exquisite. We do so love seeing where our beads end up!
Beach Frame

Carol created this fab outside feature piece with her
beach gleanings and a bead mix and charms from us . . . so cool!
Knotted Necklace

- made by Helena |
"Bubblebath"
- made by Barbara
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Two necklaces designed to be worn together, strung on
softflex - the long one
held up well to determined goobering by the baby! Our
bead mixes are great for this
sort of thing, you know the colours will work well together and it's easy to
throw in some orphan beads or oddments from your stash.
- Made by Nia