My favourite time for making jewellery is late into the night, when all is calm and quiet, apart from talk radio which I have on low volume in the background. That’s why I called this blog The Night Beader, as apart from a play on words (I used to do all my reading then) I seem to spend more of my time beading than reading these days..........or rather nights, sometimes until dawn.
It was a hobby I had dabbled in many years ago and neglected. I’d even taken classes in soldering and gem setting in the past, but it wasn’t until I had a sudden desire recently to start making bead and wire jewellery that I realised I had at last found my niche. What had once been a past interest had now transformed and was becoming a passion.
As a beader I am fortunate in that I live in London and can visit at least three bead shops, which are within walking distance of each other. I also buy some of my bead supplies online and try to source as much as possible within the UK.
Walking into one of my favourite London bead shops for the first time was like entering an Aladdin's cave. It was there that I first fell in love with Venetian glass beads. I love my visits to bead shops, I'm like a child in a sweet shop filling up all those little bags full of goodies.
For the past two weeks I've been feeling deprived of my late night hobby, as I have to get up at dawn to be ready for the workmen to arrive at 8.00am, who are renovating my kitchen. Meanwhile, I am starting my blog and have opened an online shop on etsy.com called Artefact Creations, where some of my beaded jewellery is listed. Fortunately I have enough completed jewellery to keep me busy listing in my etsy shop for the time being, and am already getting some design ideas for the next batch, which I'm looking forward to making when the workmen have finally gone.
It was a hobby I had dabbled in many years ago and neglected. I’d even taken classes in soldering and gem setting in the past, but it wasn’t until I had a sudden desire recently to start making bead and wire jewellery that I realised I had at last found my niche. What had once been a past interest had now transformed and was becoming a passion.
As a beader I am fortunate in that I live in London and can visit at least three bead shops, which are within walking distance of each other. I also buy some of my bead supplies online and try to source as much as possible within the UK.
Walking into one of my favourite London bead shops for the first time was like entering an Aladdin's cave. It was there that I first fell in love with Venetian glass beads. I love my visits to bead shops, I'm like a child in a sweet shop filling up all those little bags full of goodies.
For the past two weeks I've been feeling deprived of my late night hobby, as I have to get up at dawn to be ready for the workmen to arrive at 8.00am, who are renovating my kitchen. Meanwhile, I am starting my blog and have opened an online shop on etsy.com called Artefact Creations, where some of my beaded jewellery is listed. Fortunately I have enough completed jewellery to keep me busy listing in my etsy shop for the time being, and am already getting some design ideas for the next batch, which I'm looking forward to making when the workmen have finally gone.
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