October Beads! Try a change of Jewellery Making Style.

October 1st, 2011

It’s a new month so how about trying out some new beads. It’s easy to get stuck in a groove with your jewellery making, as you reach for the same beads and spacers. So how about trying something new and bringing a bit of variety to your jewellery making. If you love to use a certain colour pallette, maybe brown glass beads  and cream pearls  go for a brighter bead collection. Try some of our vibrant acrylic beads maybe. If you design with small beads  try out one or two larger pendant bead pieces. Make a necklace long if you normally stick to chokers or how about a bunch of bright beady bracelets if you love to wield your pliers only for earrings! You don’t have to wear them yourself, give them as gifts or even sell them on your jewellery stall. Trying something new will improve your design skills and turn you into a more versatile jewellery maker. So go on have a bash, you can always cut it up and start again! Happy jewellery making beady friends.

Lots of New Beads

June 3rd, 2011

We are adding so many new beads at the moment it’s difficult to keep up!

Pretty Foiled Millifiore glass beads

Pretty Foiled Millifiore glass beads

There are new foiled beads, heart shaped and round beads, see the pretty ones on the left!

We will continue to add lots of beads over the next weeks so keep popping by for a look for all your jewellery making  inspiration.

Wholesale Bead Department

April 2nd, 2011

Hi All

Bulk Buy beads are now available on the site! All sorts of great beads in larger  packs including mixed packs and assortments.

Prices are about half of retail and include VAT.

Foiled Glass Heart Beads Multi pack

Foiled Glass Heart Beads Multi pack

Foiled glass Beads

Acrylic Beads

Millifiore Beads

Visit the wholesale beads page for full details.

Beads

February 28th, 2011

We sell beads with which to make necklaces, earrings and other jewellery items, but sometimes you don’t want to have to make it yourself.  For that we have our new range of ready to wear bead necklaces.

Aqua shell and bead necklace

Aqua shell and bead necklace

They are made of shell, glass beads & seed beads  in a riot of pretty colours.  Prices for these beady necklaces start from only £7.99.

Some pieces in this range are also available as bead kits.

Bird Cage Pendants ~ add beads

February 28th, 2011

With the birds singing their heads off most evenings we’ve added some charms with a birdy theme for early spring, use them with aother beads and charms for necklace and bracelet making.

Bird and cage antique style charm

Bird and cage antique style charm

The one illustrated here is a bird and cage set in Antique Gold Finish

The little cage has a loop on top, and the bird has one at the back. They  look really pretty with a few added beads on a suede thong or string of seed beads.

A bonus is the FREE chain they come with measuring 70cm.

We have key charms, hearts and others in the antique gold and silver fiinishes. From £2.50 per set.

There are filigree earrings too and lots more new beads to come.

New Pandora style beads on the site

October 15th, 2010

We are stocking up on lots of lovely new beads for the new season.  Starting with these new glittering pandora style spacer rings.

Diamante spacer rondelles for Pandora!

Diamante spacer rondelles for Pandora!

These cute beads come in a pack of 10 different colours to sparkle up your bracelet.

Make great spacers for lots of other projects too.

We’ve got more of these beads in a wider style with two rings of diamante in multicolour.

Diamante spacer rondelles

September 4th, 2010

New this week are these cute little shiny sparkly rondelle spacers.  They are just perfect to pop between pearls or other beads when you want an extra bit of  glamour in your jewellery making creations.

Rondelle-diamante-10-Large

We sell these beads in Crystal AB and 5 other popular colours.

They are made with tiny crystals in silver plated castings and measure 5.5mm across.

New Triangular Pandora Style Bead

May 11th, 2010

More new beads for Pandora Style Bracelets today. These are  really lovely shiny chunky ones with pretty stones in several colourways.

Pandora style Triangular Beads with diamante

Pandora style Triangular Beads with diamante

We sell them in a set of 7 or individually.

They start from only £1.45 each.  You don’t have to use them just on snake bracelets, try them on leather thong for a quickly made choker.

New Diamante Spacer Beads for Pandora Bracelets

May 9th, 2010

I have just put this new range of Pandora style beads on the Bluestreak Beads website. They are fitted with an integral ring to hang charms from.

Pandora spacer bead with diamante and loop for charms

Pandora spacer bead with diamante and loop for charms

They come in a fab assortment of colours, each bead is set with 8 crystal stones. We have jet, aqaumarine, rose, amethyst, crystal, purple velvet and ruby versions.

Use them on snake chain pandora or troll style bracelets or in the centre of a necklace with a removable pendant.

More new beads coming very soon

Why I’ve been away so long . . . A New Home for Bluestreak Beads

May 7th, 2010

Wow!  It’s been over a month since I updated this blog…..and the reason is that we have been moving to a lovely new business unit with tons more space for all of our fabulous beads and jewellery making kit!

There was so much to do getting it ready and moving all of our millions of beads that we’ve had little time for other stuff but I am back now and have just put some new stock on the site. There will be lots more coming on over the next few weeks. It’s been building up here waiting for our great big new space to be ready.

Pictures to follow very soon.

Have a great weekend everyone

Cathie