Pendant & Focal Beads, What's New and Free
Shipping
Click a picture below to see one of this month's new beads.
To receive free shipping enter "focalbead" (without the commas) in the box at
checkout, and click "Redeem Coupon". Use NOW - as expires Thursday 14th
April 2011.
No minimum order, but can only
for used at MrBead.com or
MrBead.co.uk and cannot be used
with any other discount or eBay.
UK customers can see us at our British bead fairs during May, starting 1st May at Beads Up North, at Haydock Race Course - for details click here.
New Beads:
If
you make jewelry to sell, then necklaces are usually your bread and butter.
They sell well and customers expect them to be expensive, maximizing your
profit. Necklaces are easy to make too, especially if you base them around a
pendant or focal bead.
With
a pendant, the stones are set on a bezel using a pinch bail. This looks very
clean and professional and you won't have to worry about wires breaking or
coming loose. You can also string a pendant onto a chain or a piece of wire
just like a bead. What could be easier? However, these very-simple
necklaces' usually sell cheap.
Color
If
the pendant you chose has multiple colors, try to incorporate most of these
into the rest of the necklace. Use beads of these colors, along with similar
colored thread. This allows appreciation of the whole necklace design,
rather than focusing on one color.
Harmony
Use beads that are similar in quality to the stones in
the pendant. If the stones in the pendant are gemstones with beautiful
facets, use quality faceted beads. If the pendant has tumbled stones with
lots of inclusions, you should use baroque beads that won't take the
limelight away from the focal pendant.
Spacer Beads
Add
different sizes and shapes of metal beads and findings for professionalism
and to enhance the focal bead, but without drawing too much attention to
themselves. Spacers are also useful to add-design and to economize
on the beads used - saving you money.
Focal bead
Large
beads, like frame beads, can also be used as the focal point of your
necklace instead of a pendant. Use different sizes and color beads in your
necklace for effect, variation ads style. Finally, choose the catch to
match, attached with jump rings. A dainty necklace uses a tiny clasp,
whereas a heavy necklace needs a larger, stronger catch.
To see our Pendants click
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or
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For our Focal Beads click
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MrBead.co.uk
Our spacers & findings at
MrBead.com
or
MrBead.co.uk
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in the UK for a Free Gift!
After being shut away in a little
office reading and sending e-mails, we love to see customers! Visit
us in the UK and say you're a MrBead Newsletter reader, and we'll give you a
free gift!
Sunday 1st May 2011 - Beads up North! Haydock Race
Course, Newton-le-Willows WA12 0HQ
Sunday 8th May 2011 - Edinburgh Bead Fair
- Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, EH14 1RJ
Sunday 15th May 2011 - Cheshire Bead
Fair - Nantwich Civic Hall, CW5 5DG
Sunday 29th
May 2011 - Lakeland Bead Fair - Rheged Discovery Centre, Penrith, CA11 0DQ
For details of all our 2011 bead fairs click
here.
From our new book How to Make a Killing Selling Bead Jewelry - to buy at a 33% discount to listed price click: US Version or UK Version
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