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Beading Advice from your Dear Beady |
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Written by Dara Spiotto
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
 BEADING ADVICE FROM YOUR DEAR BEADY
Dear Beady, I own a bead store. I regularly buy beads for the store to keep it stocked to the brim. However, when I go through my purchases to put them out in the store, I find that half of what I buy ends up in the back room in my “special box” and I want to keep them. And, well, I do. They never make it back out onto the sales floor. What’s wrong with me?
~Irene in the Historical Village
Dear Irene, I know you. I shop in your store. Hm, didn’t realize you were holding out on me. What’s in that box, Irene? I mean, you can’t buy beads to sell and then not sell them. So what’s in there?? I’ll be in on Tuesday to buy them. Just bag them up for me now and I’ll be in when you open at 10.
Dear Beady, I was buying some semi-precious stones and when I checked out at the register, the woman told me that Kyanite doesn’t ever get warm. Is she pulling my leg?
~Hopping in New Hampshire
Dear Hopping, Lovely, luminous and luscious Kyanite is one of my favorites! Try this… wear a chunk of Kyanite against your skin next to your heart. Is it warm? Of course it is. Is your heart going pitter-pat because of it? Oh, yes. Maybe that woman is from the Arctic. Nothing ever gets warm there. Shall we move on?
 Dear Beady, I’m having a moral dilemma. I bought a fantastic beaded bracelet that was made by one of the gals at my local bead store. It’s a stunner, made up of small seed bead and lucite flowers that link together to make a vine. I gave it (reluctantly) to my friend as her birthday gift, and she needs one link taken out for it to fit properly. Now, do I get to KEEP the link??? Ohhh… how I want it! But you know, I have to sleep at night. Please help me! Say I can keep it! Say I can keep it! Say I can keep it!
~Coveting in Kennebunkport
Dear Coveting, Oh, poor you! The battle that must be ensuing in your heart. Well, you’re not going to like my advice. I think you should put that link onto a pretty seed bead chain as a pendant, and give that to her as well. Then I think you should ask her if you can borrow it and then don’t give it back until she asks, or begs you for it. Everybody wins!
Dear Beady, When I had my child a year ago, I gave up beading. I’ve missed it every day. How can I stop resenting my child from taking beads out of my life? When can I get them back??
~Beadless in Brunswick
Dear Beadless, Why, you can get them back right now! Take your little one to the toy store. Buy multiple packages of those fun POP beads! I mean, a LOT! Now take them home and open up one package, give them to your little one and show them how to POP them together. All the other packages are for you! Start popping them in peyote stitch and you’ll feel right in no time! You’ll be a better Mama.
 Dear Beady, I have a pet peeve. My job is to teach people how to be successful in the jewelry business. The problem is when they call it “jewellery”. AIGH! I can’t stand it! How are they going to do well if they can’t even say it right!
~Annoyed in Augusta
Dear Annoyed, Here’s how you can communicate with them: Ask them if they’d like to use some Sa-warski crystal in their jewellery. Suggest they use your favorite color, Padpadoosha with maybe a ravioli in the center. You’ll be speaking their language and you’ll get along swimmingly.
In my last post, I told Panicked in Peoria to give her dog the Heimlich maneuver after he swallowed her precious beads. Then I told her to get a hamster instead! I was brought back to my senses by a sensible reader named Joan who e-mailed me this very important wake up call: “You suggested woman get a hamster after dog ate beads. Have you ever seen how much those little guys can stuff in their cheeks. It must equal their body weight.” So Joan, thank you! I hadn’t thought of this. And for all you hamster owners who may run into this  trouble, just grab the little guys around the middle and squeeze! Those beads will come out like bullets.
Also… Audrey, another reader, had this comment… “Please tell Sparkle Enough in Rancho Cucamonga that she isn't the only one who is not crazy about AB crystals; actually I thought I was the only one! All my crystals are Swarovski and that's just beautiful enough, I don't like them mucked up. But I do love some of the new finishes like golden shadow and silver shade, and I have always used the aurum and argent 2x.” Well, my only comment to that is, if you’re not wearing sun glasses while stranding crystals, then your crystals are not sparklie enough! But to each his own.
Have a question for your Dear Beady? Send it along and put your little bead brain to rest! Until next time... blissful beading, my dears! |
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