Blog for Beaders

Two autumn designs created by Artbeads.com owner Cynthia Kimura are featured in The Best of Stringing 2009.  Late Harvest is a simply elegant necklace featuring silk ribbon, swarovski crystals and a stunning LillyPilly pendant.    You’ll also find the bracelet Tahitian Path which was made using Swarovski Tahitian pearls and our popular sterling silver stick spacers.

For similiar jewelry designs visit our Learning Center.

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Artbeads.com is happy to introduce Style Lab: Jewelry Design, a brand new Nintendo DS game from Ubisoft®. This entertaining game lets you design beautiful virtual jewelry using over 400 beads, pendants and charms based on products actually sold at Artbeads.com. When you’ve finished your designs, you can choose to make them public for friends and family to see, and you can purchase them. That’s where we come in! The talented jewelry designers at Artbeads.com will bring your creations to life using components similar to those you chose within the game. A perfect gift idea this holiday season, Style Lab: Jewelry Design will help spread the joy of jewelry making to young and old alike!

For more information about this exciting venture, read our official Style Lab Jewelry Design Press Release.

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Take part in our new treasure hunt to win a $100 Artbeads.com gift card! We are proud to sponsor this treasure hunt for Beader’s Showcase, an online jewelry design community. One special image containing a compass and a secret word is hidden on Artbeads.com and another is placed on the Beader’s Showcase website! For a chance to win, visit Beader’s Showcase!

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Artbeads.com now offers free priority shipping and 24-hour turnaround on all U.S. orders of $75 or more! We want to get all orders shipped in the quickest way possible at the lowest cost to our customers. We give these orders special attention to make sure they’re out our doors within 24 hours of the orders being placed. For more details, visit the Artbeads.com shipping page.

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Recently I was fortunate enough to be one of only a few of FedEx’s customers invited to attend the ceremonial delivery to Federal Express of their first Boeing 777 freighter, manufactured about 50 miles from Artbeads.com at Boeing’s Everett facility. Prior to the delivery of the jet, we were given an expanded tour of Boeing’s facility, granting us access to areas that are inaccessible to people attending any of Boeing’s public tours. There is no other way to describe this building except by saying that it is big… really, really big. So big in fact that the Guinness Book Of World Records lists it as the biggest building in the world by volume at 472 million cubic feet. To put that into perspective, that’s big enough to hold all of Disneyland and still have room for 12 acres of covered parking! Another way to get an idea of the size of this building is to consider that it has 1 million light bulbs!

The 777F is one of the newest series of freighters produced by Boeing, and to see one up close was truly incredible. Standing next to this plane on the tarmac and being able to reach out and touch it gave me a sense of perspective that you simply can’t get any other way. Each wheel was about 4 feet tall and the landing gear has a total of 12 of them. The wingspan is over 200 feet, more than two-thirds the length of a football field. Even the engine itself was enormous with the diameter being greater than that of the entire fuselage of a 737, one of the most common commercial passenger planes in use today.

Most of us take air travel for granted now, but if you ever get the chance to visit an aircraft factory or have the opportunity to see a large scale jet up close and personal, take it from me that you won’t regret it. These machines are truly remarkable, and to see how they are made makes the experience even more incredible.

- Michael, Chief Operating Officer

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From awareness ribbon charms to pink Venetian glass beads, these awareness items will help you promote the causes that are closest to your heart.

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With summer coming to an end, we are offering clearance discounts on more than 600 summer-themed items along with the existing clearance products. There is no better time to stock up on your favorite beads and jewelry components! This sale ends at 9am (PDT) on Thursday, September 3, 2009. When it ends, the summer-themed products will be removed from the clearance section and go back to their original prices.

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For 48 hours, shop the Back to Basics sale to save 15% on hundreds of beading staples ranging from crimp tubes and clasps to bails and head pins. These findings will give your designs a high-quality foundation. Take advantage of this sale by entering coupon code SCE15P-BBS at checkout. This sale ends at 9am (PDT) on Thursday, July 30, 2009.

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For just one week, save 20% on our most unique bead and craft items. From watches and bead pens to journal kits and bookmarks, these components will help you think outside the box. To enjoy these great savings, enter coupon code SCW20P-OBS at checkout. This sale ends at 9am (PDT) on Thursday, July 30, 2009.

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