BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS!

Yes thats right folks, Big News!! We have now changed over to our final domain name....it has been an exhausting couple of months getting here, but the day has finally come, yippee! We have gone from www.fantasybeading.com to www.fantasybeadingsupplies.com to our final and permanent name of www.beadwork-supplies.com . Please be sure to check it out and bookmark us.....same website, just a new name. If you try to find us using an old bookmark, you will most likely find a dead link. Bad for you, bad for us! We want to thank all of our wonderful and loyal customers for sticking by us during this confusing time.....we really appreciate all of you SO MUCH!
On to other news.....we have recently acquired some absolutely GORGEOUS Pietersite Cabochons at a very reasonable price. Don't get me wrong, this is a premium stone and the prices will reflect that. But we are buying the stones direct from the cutter, so we were able to get them at a more reasonable price. And of course, we will be passing on that great deal to you! Look for the cabochons to be added to the website sometime in the next few weeks. If you are unfamiliar to this stunning stone, check back tomorrow, as we will be adding an article about it. It is so beautiful, I have fallen deeply in love, LOL! Wonderful chatoyant colors of Gold, Red and Blue.....sometimes in the same stone at the same time! The most rare of the colors is blue, then red, then gold, and we have been able to get some of each. I am soooooo excited!!
We have also added an incredible new cabochon to the website, a premium designer cabochon of the finest quality Rhodonite. It is GORGEOUS!! Be sure to check it out......I'm sure you will be drooling just as I have ever since we acquired it! (Don't worry, I will clean the cab before shipping, lol) There are quite a few other new cabochons for your perusal, but the Rhodonite is the star of the whole show!
Guess that is it for now! Thanks for reading and don't forget!
It's www.beadwork-supplies.com now!

Lots of Great New Goodies!!!

Hello to all!! We want to let everyone know that we have a wonderful bunch of goodies that we will be adding to the website soon....very soon!! Some fabulous buttons, lots of new Lampwork Cabochons, some great designer Cabochon Sets....keep checking in because I will be adding then all this week! We will also be adding some pics of a new necklace that I made for myself, (mine mine mine, yippee!) I used the smallest size of our round "treasure Boxes" to make a cabochon featuring a picture of my darling daughter and did some simple beadwork around it....I let her choose what color beads to use and she chose Black. I wanted a pretty Blue but no, she wanted Black. So Black it is, LOL! It only took a couple of hours to make including dry time for the glue, so it's the perfect project for a rainy afternoon! (or any afternoon for that matter, lol) I am almost finished with my beaded ponytail holder and will be adding pics of it asap. I hope you will find it inspiring, I am very pleased with it! Now if only I had enough hair to be able to wear it, I guess I cut off all my hair at the wrong time, lol! But hey, summer in Iowa is no joke! It gets HOT here, when you take the humidity into account. 95 degrees and 100 percent humidity is just plain uncomfortable darn it, and a big mass of hair just doesn't make sense. So it's short hair for me for the summer at least! Maybe I'll let it grow back in time for the 10 below temps we get in the winter....sigh. ;)
Thats it for now, take care everyone!
~Cindy

New Name announcement

Happy Thursday, one and all! I hope that your Thursday has been uneventful, mine has been so very busy, as usual, LOL! Trips to the Post Office, the bank, the grocery store......making a few beads before it became unbearably HOT in the studio. Iowa summers can be a bit uncomfortable with the heat and humidity! Our daughter is out of school for the summer now, and at the ripe old age of 10 is at the age where she would rather stay home than go run errands with Mom, so I flew solo all day. It was kind of nice, but I have to admit that I kinda miss my little hanger-on, LOL!
I have been itching to get back to my beadwork, I have several projects going right now, and each one calls my name every time that I walk by......so I intend to spend tomorrow at the torch experimenting with some new color combinations for my lampwork florals and then relaxing with some beadwork in front of the T.V. Don't you just love how you can watch T.V. and do beadwork at the same time?! The only downside is having the dog jump up onto the couch next to me, which always seems to bump the bead tray.....so that I spill beads or at the very least, prick my finger with the needle, OW! Darn dog, he's lucky he's so cute, LOL!
If you haven't browsed the website lately, you may want to check out all teh new items we have added lately......fabulous Turquoise cabs, some incredible Vintage buttons and a new color for the dyed Lacy's Stiff Stuff......Green! Finally, Green! We have had the hardest time getting the color Green, we don't know why, but it has never worked before. We ordered a special industrial dye, and were finally rewarded with a lovely shade of Pale Green. Almost a Celedon Green, in fact! Really lovely, be sure to check it out! And tomorrow I will be adding a nice big batch of beautiful, shimmering Dichroic cabochons, at great prices of course! So be sure to check back often to see what new surprise goodies we have available!
Which brings me to our ANNOUNCEMENT:
We will be changing the address of our website from www.fantasybeadingsupplies.com to www.beadwork-supplies.com
Yes, this is our second name change in as many months......we apologize for any inconvienience that this may have caused all of our wonderful customers! We had to come up with a new name very quickly when we lost our old one (with no notice I might add, GRR!) and now we have had the opportunity to use the web address of www.beadwork-supplies.com so we snapped it up! We hope that the name makes it easier for everyone to find us out there in cyberland, so that there will be no one having to do without their favorite bracelet blank, brass collar, Lacy's Stiff Stuff or cabochons! So don't forget to bookmark our new site name, remember it is:
www.beadwork-supplies.com
I had better close for now, before my Happy Thursday Post trickles into Friday, LOL! Take care everyone!
~Cindy

Welcome to the fantasybeadingsupplies.com BLOG

Hello to all, and welcome. This is going to be fun, FUN I tell you, A blog for all seasons, a blog for all reasons......a place to go and read all kinds of interesting tidbits of information about fantasybeadingsupplies.com. (and some boring stuff too, I suppose) I intend to use this space as a conduit to give you, the reader, as much inside info as I can. For instance, if we are going to be running a great sale at fantasybeadingsupplies.com, I will tell you all about it here. And, if I notice someone else having a great sale, with prices even I can't beat, I'll post that, too. I will also be telling you about any new ideas I have, showing you a few beadwork techniques, showing off pictures of my adorable daughter and our family of pets, and showcasing work by my very talented customers. I'll tell you about whats going on in my life and most likely ask for advice now and then. Give me some time to get used to this whole "blog" thing, as it is all new to me lol, But in time I hope that you will find it a great place to come to with a cup of coffee and a sense of humor, ready to have some FUN.
~Cindy