Spring Jewellery, Threading Beads & Mr & Mrs Bead’s Holiday

18th May 2024

See us this Sunday, 19th May at the Cornish Bead Fair, Probus Village Hall, TR2 4NB – Just off the A390 Truro to St Austell road. Free entry & refreshments. See our latest semi precious beads just imported, along with seed beads & findings by Southampton Bead Shop.

MrBead Shop: https://mrbeadshop.com. For bead fairs booked so far click Bead Fairs 2024.

Content:
Cornish Bead Fair
Ideas For Spring Jewellery
Bead Fair Reports
Bead Threading Machine
Mr & Mrs Bead’s Holiday
2024 Bead Fairs
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Cornish Bead Fair

Cornish Bead Fair 2024 See us tomorrow, 19th May in Probus Village Hall: 10:30am to 4pm. With Southampton Bead Shop. We have lots of new semi precious beads – and Southampton Bead Shop has lots of new seed beads & spacers.

Bead Fairs Make a weekend of it with a break by the coast in Cornwall. We’re stayed the week. Travel Lodge’s are very cheap Sunday evenings on your way home!

Ideas For Spring Jewellery

Embrace Spring Elegance With Semi Precious Beads
Pastel Perfection
Spring Beads Spring brings a sense of renewal and rejuvenation. Embrace the beauty of this season by making jewellery with semi-precious beads. From delicate florals to vibrant hues. Some enchanting ideas to inspire:

Adopt the soft colours of spring by adding pastel beads like rose quartz, aquamarine, and lavender amethyst into your designs. Create dainty necklaces with clusters of pastel beads – adding metal charms or freshwater pearls for an ethereal touch. Pair a pastel bead bracelet with flowing sundresses or a linen blouse for a feminine look with springtime charm. For our pastels click: Pastel Beads.

Blooming Beauties
Flower Beads Capture the essence of spring flowers with floral-inspired jewellery, with jade, coral, and peridot beads. Design statement earrings with intricate beadwork in the shape of blooming petals or cascading vines. Craft floral bead pendants or brooches using wire wrapping to create lifelike petals and leaves – reminiscent of a spring garden in full bloom. For our floral beads click: Flower Beads.

Sunshine Sparkle
Spring Beads Infuse your designs with the vibrant energy of the sun – with citrine, carnelian, and amber beads. Design beaded bracelets featuring sunny yellow beads, with gold-toned findings and sparkling crystals for a radiant and joyful look.

Create bold statement necklaces with chunky citrine or amber beads – adding warmth and optimism to your spring ensemble. For our yellows click: Yellow Beads, or Amber Beads or Citrine Beads.

Oceanic Opulence
Sea Beads Transport yourself to tranquil shores with jewellery inspired by sea. Colours featuring turquoise, amazonite or lapis lazuli beads. Design beaded anklets with turquoise and amazonite beads with seashell charms or tiny starfish for a beachy vibe that’s perfect for spring and summer. Craft elegant lapis lazuli necklaces with intricate beadwork like ocean waves. For our blues, click Blue Beads or Turquoise Beads.

Elegant Earth Tones
Channel the natural beauty of spring with designs highlighting beads in earthy tones – such as jasper, agate, and tiger’s eye. See our Jasper Beads or Agate Beads or Tiger Eye Beads.

Jasper Necklace Create choker necklaces with richly coloured jasper beads – interspersed with hammered metal accents for a bohemian look.

Spring Beads Design beaded wrap bracelets with a mix of agate and tiger’s eye beads in warm, earthy hues – to add a touch of rustic charm to the spring wardrobe. Infuse your creations with the essence of the season. Gather your beads, unleash your creativity, and let your jewellery-making journey bloom this spring!

Bead Fair Reports

Luton Bead Fair
Luton is always busy, but this was are best yet! Good job Steve helped us out. Many buyers nipped up the M1 from London to visit us. Although the hall is small, we still manage to display everything – great more than a Gem n Bead Fair. Back Saturday 19th October.

New Forest Bead FairWe all love Brockenhurst – there’s something exciting about all the animals everywhere! As usual a great show, with many keen visitors. We’ll be back Sunday 8th September.

Bead Threading Machine

bead threading machine Ever wondered how beads are threaded ready to sell? It can take for ever by hand, especially if you’re threading thousands of strings.

Well, like most things these days, it’s done by machine. Beads are driven by a roller into a plastic pipe. Vibration then causes the movement of beads, so that the bead holes’ automatically enter a fixed needle, adding to the thread. Fast and efficient!

Mr & Mrs Bead’s Southern-Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco Trip

Mr & Mrs Beads Holiday Mr & Mrs Beads Holiday 2024 We can’t work 7-days weeks all the time. So over Easter we took a beak. As far south we could go in just 8-days – for the sun. Stansted to Saville, made our way down to Gibraltar, boat over to Tangier, and a train to Fez from where we flew back.

Lot of fun with some good food – BUT only one day without heavy rain! The cable-car was closed because of heavy wind in Gibraltar, so we got soaked walking up the rock. We had to change the ferry to Tangier due to bad weather – and even in Africa it was difficult to buy an umbrella without being soaked. Picture shows MiMi drying her shoe with a hear-dryer!

Moroccan Beads This time in Morocco, we didn’t buy any beads – but we did check out some of the bead shops. Mostly Moroccan Tribal Berber beads. If you would like to buy some, we have some left from our previous trip there, great for a fashionable rustic look. Click Berber Rainbow Nugget Beads.

To see a short video of the trip, click Easter 2024 Trip.

2024 Bead Fairs

Spring Bead Fairs Bead fairs are fun. A good way to lean how to make jewellery chatting with other visitors – and there’s nothing like actually seeing the beads ‘in the flesh’.

See the latest semi precious from our recent shipment. We try to cover all the UK: from Cornwall to Scotland, Wales to Norfolk, London, and all in-between!

Next Bead Fairs 2024

Sunday 19th May: Cornish Bead Fair, Probus Village Hall, Barn Court, Probus TR2 4NB
Sunday 8th June: Kent Bead Fair, Farningham Village Hall, High Street, Farningham DA4 0DE
Sunday 16th June: Cheshire Bead Fair, Goodwill Hall, Wrexham Road. Faddiley, Nantwich CW5 8HY
Saturday 22nd June: Lincoln Bead Fair, North Kyme Village Hall, Vacherie Lane, North Kyme LN4 4DL
Sunday 23rd June: Essex Bead Fair, Great Bromley Village Hall, Parsons Hill, Gt Bromley CO7 7JA

For the shows booked so far next year, click: 2024 Bead Fairs. Many More To Follow!