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Shiny new jewellery!

2010-10-06T16:10:00.003+01:00

We have had our first batch of pretty new jewellery arrive! This season it's full of yummy rich colours to aid in warming yourself up for the chilly nights ahead with lots of lovely new brooches to pin onto those wooly coat lapels! There are also necklaces, rings and some lovely keyrings/bag charms.

We're heading off to the Halloween Tattoo Bash on October 30th-31st (my birthday, dedication that is!) so come and have a fondle of our wares and shimmy on down at their epic Halloween Ball!

We'll have lots more new goodies arriving soon too as...dramatic pause...we're in full Christmas swing, eep, with the full range of new Loungefly bags and wallets arriving towards the end of November. There will also be something super-exciting happening on November 1st but you'll see that with your own eyes, we're keeping you in suspense for now.

All change please! Lots of new goodies too!

2010-08-20T20:38:00.009+01:00

Phew, after another busy summer of conventions it's lovely to have a few weeks to ourselves...or not!

Whilst we've just abour recovered from the joys of Tattoo Jam and Norwich being on consecutive weekends and getting waaaay too many tattoos in a pretty short time period (7 hour sitting anyone?!) we've got some SUPER exciting news! The Beadesaurus Marple store is moving!

We've completely outgrown our current Beadesaurus premesis at number 5 Derby Way...so we're moving 3 doors down to number 11 (the old SOS/Pirates & Princesses store!)!

We're going to have a much bigger shopfloor to fill with a much wider array of goodies and a second level too where lots of exciting things are going to start happening once we're settled in!

The grand opening is on September 2nd and we'll have some lovely cupcakes baked by a genuine grandma for anyone who pops by!

Right, onto what's new!

Well, we have LOADS of new Liquorbrand t-shirts, although much of it still needs to go online (particularly the men's Liquorbrand range) it's slowly beginning to trickle onto the website! Many designs are by the super-lovely Phil Kyle who we had a great time boozing and schmoozing with at Bournemouth Convention at the end of May. Here are our favourites:

We've also expanded our kiddies range immensely with more to come! We're currently stocking up to age 5 in kid's t-shirts and kid's babydoll ruffle tees but hope to go up to age 12 to cater for all your pre-tattooed youngun's needs!

We're also a bit more lady-like! Our new dresses and skirts go up to a size 18 too!

Two new Whitney Lenox designs are in stock now along with a replenishment of some older ever-popular designs including Busy Living & Cut-Throat Girl. We briefly met at Tattoo Jam although the way I was introduced probably scared her slightly! She's gorgeous, just like the ladies she draws!

We've got in a gorgeous new range of retro and vintage style tattoo jewellery too. Pin-up-tacular!

And last, but not least, we have also now got ALL of the new Loungefly through, phew! They'll be teasing us with previews of the autumn/winter range soon, beasts! We do love them though, and their sugar skull-tastic summer range! Look at all this bag & wallet shaped goodness!

We're off to check out lots of lovely autumn/winter ranges in the next two weeks, and then we have the immensity of LONDON TATTOO CONVENTION on the 24th-25th-26th of September! We have our own arch so come and have a good old shop!

Lux de Ville is back!

2010-07-09T23:01:00.004+01:00

Following a two year abscence we are happy to welcome back Lux de Ville handbags, kisslock bags and wallets to the Beadesaurus bags family!

Lucky Me Sugar Skulls Kisslock Bag

Cash Out Swallows Wallet
Cash Out Sugar Skulls Wallet

Starlite Pink Sparkle Kisslock Bag

Starlite Blue Sparkle Powder Clutch

Sin City Motor Red Leopard Tote Bag

Lucky Me Black & Leopard Kisslock Bag

High Seas Red Pearl Wallet
High Seas Blue Pearl Kisslock Bag

Swallows Half Moon Clutch Bag

We've got lots more Lux de Ville bags and Lux de Ville wallets online now, go and have a looksie, every girl needs a good getaway bag!

Win A Loungefly Bag!

2010-03-14T15:55:00.005Z

We're having a super-special Easter Egg hunt on the website!

There are 20 Easter Eggs hidden around the website and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning one of three Loungefly based prizes is find 15 of them and email info@beadesaurus.co.uk with the links and locations of them. Some are in pictures, some are in descriptions and some are in random places that you'll have to find out about yourself!

Anybody who finds all 20 will automatically get a 15% off voucher code to use on the site as some are in rather tricky places!

The prizes are as follows:

1st Prize - Loungefly Alice In Wonderland Black Tote Bag & 15% off Voucher!
2nd Prize - Loungefly Embroidered Skull & Roses Wallet & 10% off Voucher!
3rd Prize - Loungefly Sugar Skull & Flowers Necklace & 10% off Voucher!

To start you off, and to let you know what you're looking for here's the first one!

You have until Easter Sunday April 4th at 6pm to enter with winners being drawn that night.

Good luck and happy hunting!

Steampunk Supreme!

2010-03-13T10:29:00.011Z

Look at these delicious goodies...!

We've gone steampunk mad! All of these gorgeous items are completely handmade near Los Angeles, USA and we are pretty much the only place you can get them from in the UK. The quality and finish on these items is absolutely first class and many are limited edition, designer pieces with other items in the collection having been seen on celebrities such as Madonna, Emily Blunt, Kat Von D, Jennifer Love Hewitt and even Paris Hilton and appearing in TV shows including Sex & The City.

Some of my personal favourite piece are the reliquary/dexterity box necklaces, purely due to their originality and uniqueness. A reliquary is a receptacle for keeping or displaying sacred relics and to play with this idea, the designer has chosen some of her favorite art as a backdrop for these designs. Some are dexterity game puzzles, some have moving parts of flux and flow. The result is a line of cherished keepsakes that are 3-dimensional artifacts, reflecting a sensibility of history and playfulness.

All items are heavily plated in either sterling silver or bio-friendly black enamel and, as I said before, are COMPLETELY handmade. Prices range from £18 for a ring way up to £70 for the strictly limited edition working compass necklace. The materials used to create these pieces vary from, glass, steel, brass and even wood.

The quality of this jewellery only surpassed by the statement it makes by those who wear it. Accessories with class and sass!

On a money saving note we've taken around 10% (or more!) off a lot of Loungefly as we're preparing for their spring/summer range to arrive in mid-April to May time and we need to make some space for all the new goodies. The items below have had a couple of quid or more slashed from their prices.

Was £19.99 now £12.99! - 35% off!Was £26.99 now £24.99! 7.5% off!Was £49.99 now £44.99! - 10% offWas £44.99 now £39.99! 11% off!Was £49.99 now £44.99! 10% off!
Was £44.99 now £39.99! 11% off!
Was £21.99 now £19.99! 1% off!Was £21.99 now £14.99! - 32% off!

Some of these have been put on sale as we won't be receiving any more when they've gone, others have simply had their prices reduced and remain in their original categories as they simply cost less now and we will continue to sell them at these lower prices! Whoo!

Have a super weekend!

Las Vegas In Wonderland

2010-03-10T21:44:00.010Z

Well, it's been a while since I last had a good old blog going!

Since then this happened...

Now, it wasn't all fun and games, although, to be honest a lot of it was! We found some AMAZING stuff for the shop and all that goodness will be arriving soon. We also got to meet Loungefly, had dinner and shots with Sailor Jerry and spent the week hooked up with the lovely folk at Sourpuss for Karaoke, cocktails, bad Russian food and general debauchery!

Here's a sneak preview of some of the goodies you can expect to be arriving from our Sin City adventure.

Lovely!

We also have the brand new Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland range of bags, wallets and jewellery from the lovely Loungefly! We were the first people in Europe to receive this limited edition and highly collectable range of Loungefly!

Here's the pics!

We lovooove it all!

Keep a sneaky peeky eye out for all the new goodies, they'll be arriving from the end of the month onwards, with the new sugar-skull-tastic Spring/Summer Loungefly range arriving from mid-April.

Our next tattoo convention is the North Lakes show in Carlisle from April 17th-18th and we may be making an appearance at Ink n Iron here in Birmingham.

2010 is looking to have some exciting changes for us...and that's all the information I'm willing to divulge!

A Veritable Plethora of New Stuff!

2010-02-03T20:42:00.005Z

Phew! After another hectic and chaotic weekend we have returned once again!

Brighton Convention was bloody GREAT! To be beside the seaside, even on such a chilly, chilly, day, and see some amazing work AND meet some great people was a real pleasure!

Our next stand is at Love Smack in Newark on the 13th of February followed by Manchester convention in March.

Anyhoos...NEW STUFF!

Owls! We've gone owl mad with two new bags and a purse coming in alongside some random Moomin goodies!

Here's some lovely pictures of the delectable delights we have received lately!

We've also expanded our Tattoo Flash jewellery range with the following beauties from the likes of Hannah Aitchinson, Sunny Buick and Seldom Wright.

We've also had tons of mirrors arrive to aid in indulging your inner narcissist

We're off to view the new Spring/Summer collections over the nxt 3 weeks, we've already have the sneakiest of sneaky peeks at Loungefly's S/S range and if you like sugar skulls you won't be disappointed!

But shh...I've already said too much!

Tour de Beadesaurus!

2010-01-20T21:08:00.005Z

We're off being busy busy again! That's right Beadesaurus are hitting the road and we're currently in preparation for the busiest few weeks ever!

We got back from the amazing day that was Tattoo Freeze on Sunday and have to say a MASSIVE thanks to everyone who attended and to Skin Deep (and their brilliant staff) for creating such an immensely cool day. The entire show was fantastic; friendly atmosphere, amazing tattooists and some great twists on the standard conventions of most conventions with the Roller Derby, cars and art show.

On the 30th and 31st we are off to Brighton for their 3rd convention which also promises to be a blast! We have a giant sized L shape stall right next to Dan Gold and the handtappers in a new central area. I can't wait to be beside the seaside even if it is in a particularly chilly January!

The week after that we're off to London to check out some goodies for you and catch up with our friends.

Then on the 13th we're off to Love Smack in Newark. We're a rather proud sponsor of the Lincolnshire Bombers Roller Girls (alongside Motorhead!) and we have a stand there too. Tickets are available via our Paypal on their website.

Then, the piece de la resistance...on Monday 15th February...WE ARE GOING TO LAS VEGAS! We're very excited! We finally get to meet some of the awesome American suppliers we have bought from for years in the flesh as well as catching up with some of our other Yankee-doodle favourites. Loungefly better look out, we're coming to get them!

Not long after we return we're off to Manchester Convention and then there's pretty much one a month until the Clothes Show comes round again. Phew. We're busy little bunnies at the moment!

At the moment I'm really trying to get some of the older items that we have in the shop up onto the site, such as the alice bands, which are a bugger to photograph but necessary to get up. We've also got a nice big chunk of Lowbrow Art Company goodies up now with most of the new designs online and more to come.

We've got lots planned for this year and next month we'll being to get our Spring/Summer ranges through. It's exciting!

Here's some new stock for you, made oop norf by our maties, with the vintage-style charms cast by themselves and heavier weight than the often flimsy brass bought in from the USA. Nice chunky chains and cheap as chips. Tasty!

That's all for now folks! See you in Brighton!

Happy New Year!

2010-01-03T19:11:00.009Z

Well, 2009 came and went in a flash! Last year was possibly the most eventful for us so far and 2010 promises to be even bigger.

The Clothes Show was fantastic! It was so nice to get such a great reception and to find out how many people had heard of us. It was potentially the most tiring week of our lives but it was all worth it in the end!

To start 2010 off we have brand new Lowbrow and Toxico which I have been attempting to get online for two weeks now but the 'festivities' (aka Jack Daniels and mulled cider) of Christmas seemed to keep getting in the way! I'm editing pictures inbetween the writing of this and so the majority of the Toxico should be up tonight along with the first half of the Lowbrow (seeing as the other box in the delivery is still finding it's way to us through the UK postal system!).

Here's some sneaky previews:

On January 17th we have a stand at Tattoo Freeze at the Telford International Centre. This is our first convention of the year and will shortly be followed by Brighton on the 30th and 31st. We're mega excited about Brighton mainly due to the pure amount of space we have to fill and simply because Brighton itself is an AWESOME place and we get to spend the weekend at the seaside, albeit in the middle of winter! We're right by Dan Gold and the handtappers as well which should be rather special!

We're doing a lot of shows this year and have a lot of exclusive collaborations coming, exclusive jewellery from some of our favourite artists (and friends!) and the official merchandise for the new Tim Burton Alice In Wonderland film.

This year promises to be bigger than the last, and if it's even half as much fun it'll be one to watch out for! Also, this year holds our 10th birthday, so watch this space for your party invite!

Thanks to all of you who have supported us over the past 12 months and heres to a bigger, better, funner 2010.

Happy new year!

We have new Loungefly! Clothes Show Live!

2009-12-02T22:56:00.004Z

Well, just in time for the Clothes Show Live (which we begin setting up for tomorrow!) out delicious delivery of Loungefly delights arrived! Russian Dolls, Crowded Teeth lunchboxes and most excitingly...the new Alice in Wonderland and Snow White designs!

Well, with just one more batch to come before the entire winter range is here I know all you want is pictures so here you are!

Isn't that a feast for the eyes?!

Tomorrow we head off to the Clothes Show Live which means we're busy bunnies until next Wednesday. Orders made from 1pm today (Wednesday 2nd December) until 3pm Sunday will be dispatched on Monday, orders made after 3pm on Sunday will be dispatched on Thursday, so not too much of a delay and still plenty of time for Christmas gifties shopping! Ooh and the special Christmas packaging is back too!

If you're heading to the Clothes Show we're in the Offbeat Boutique area of the Purple Zone in Hall 6. We'll mainly be showcasing the Loungefly and it'll be at silly prices too with t-shirts at only £15, that's £10 cheaper than our competitors and £5 less than we normally sell them for! Bags and wallets will also be cheaper with lots of wallets £20 and under, that's up to £15 less and bags from only £30, some a massive £25 cheaper than greedy other stores!

Come and say hey, we love meeting you guys!

Carnival Of The Strange & Plus Sizes!

2009-11-17T18:50:00.004Z

So, we have a stand here at the weekend...

...courtesy of the lovely Lincolnshire Bombers Roller Girls. There's lots of fun stuff going on and our wares will be displayed as usual including all the new goodies from Loungefly and our other favourites!

We also had a fresh delivery from Sourpuss today, including their new XXL size which is a pretty decent size 18. Alongside the swallow dresses we have these guys are our newest plus size supplier, and we think it's about time too! These should be up on the site by the end of the week alongside some rather fit new jewellery that you'll struggle to find anywhere else and will very soon be displaying our favourite flash and images from our tattooist friends!

Coming in the next few weeks we have new Sailor Jerry, tattoo flash jewellery and Lowbrow Art Co so your Christmas needs should be well and truly covered!

Just a quickie tonight as it's all a rush at the moment! Ho ho no!

LOUNGEFLY! LOUNGEFLY! LOUUUUNGEEEFLY!

2009-11-05T12:55:00.007Z

Oh we do love it when our Loungefly orders arrive! Particularly when there's 9 big boxes of it and when the grumpy delivery man refuses to bring it up the stairs, it makes it all the more exciting!

Loungefly are teases, they send out their winter range previews in August and then we have to wait almost 4 months before it's ready. Dirty flirts!

Well, the first batch is here with new goodies from Crowded Teeth, Skelanimals and Nightmare Before Christmas alongside Loungefly's own delicious range. We're still waiting for the new Disney, Muppets and Kawaii goodies to come in, alongside more of the ranges we have already got but I think there's enough to whet your appetite!

Well, enough jibber-jabber...you don't care about the words, oh no no, it's all about the pictures...

We have also had a HUUUUUGE new delivery of Newbreed Girl t-shirts, giving us a much larger range than that generic high street store than has jumped on the bandwagon to take business away from independent traders! Ours are 1p cheaper too haha!

Again, pictures...!

And there's lots more too!

Well, I'm going to finish our new winter flyers for the Clothes Show Live, just a month away! We'll mainly be showcasing the new Loungefly and it'll be at bargin prices too!

Pop down and help us spread some Christmas cheer!

Yo ho ho!

Girl-tastic!

2009-10-12T22:09:00.002+01:00

Today we got some LUUUURVELY new dresses in along with a restock on the black swallows dress, or sparrows if you're in the US of A (although last I knew sparrows were brown!).

The ruffle and swallow dresses are made of gorgeous draping materials that flatter beautifully, with the Sailor Betty dress being a true bombshell knockout number..oh and did we mention that the swallow dresses are available up to size 20!

Sweet Life Ruffle Dress

Teal Swallows Dress

Sailor Betty Dress

Black Swallows Dress

We also have two tons of cheapo Goodie Two Sleeves end of range t-shirts in - starting from just £9.99! Seriously! There are very limited designs and sizes and so get in there quick if you want to get your grubby mits on one!

On a technical boring note the debit cards function is now working on the website! After several months of solidly scouring the internet for solutions and tearing my hair out for answers it all pinged together tonight and I am pleased to annouce that we can now take your money off your hands in a new way! And just in time for Christmas too!

On the scary note of Christmas...if there are Royal Mail postal strikes around this time we will use a different courier to make sure your items get to you on time!

Happy October!

Shiny New Old Shop!

2009-09-30T20:06:00.009+01:00

Well, I can honestly say that we've worked our bums off these last few weeks!

The smaller room of the Birmingham Beadesaurus shop was beginning to look a bit tired having not been decorated since we opened in June 2000, and with the pink room looking so fresh and swish we decided that it was about time we had a refit.

This was no easy feat, as any of you who have visited Beadesaurus know we have stuff EVERYWHERE! This meant having to completely gut the smaller room and remove all the bags, kitty plush and random bits that were all over the walls in order to gain access to them to paint and put up new fixtures. As well as painting and decorating we were shunting great chunks of furniture around and playing our favourite game...moving the glass cabinets full of jewellery, fun. Not!

Before it looked like this.

We started early Sunday morning completely shifting all the shiftable items and painting, starting with a white undercoat to mask the minging orange and dirty blue combination. Rick got manly and chopped the bead shelf in half and moved it to the other wall and the counter got moved to the opposite side. We also put up lots of new 6ft meshing panels to hang our lovelies off. Phew.

Pie ended up with more paint on himself than on the walls!

Same time Monday we were back, this time painting the blue over the white and making the bead trays and counter a delicious shiny red. There was lots of loud drilling and more manly DIY activities.

Then on Tuesday the fun really started. We had to get all of the stock back onto the walls. This entailed unpacking all the boxes we'd put away full of Loungefly bags, Kitty goodies, laces, sale jewellery and adding t-shirts into the small room for the very first time. To top it all off we received a HUGE Hello Kitty delivery full of bags and plush (that will be up on the site next week, gimme a break, I'm tired!)

But it looks FIT. Now all we have to do it change the floor and lighting, most likely after Christmas when all the hubbub of Clothes Show and general Christmas stress is over.

Happy Days!

Bag-tastic! Darling bags back & NEW totes!

2009-09-15T15:45:00.001+01:00

FINALLY!

All of the delectable Darling bags, Owl, Fawn and Birdie, are now back in stock in small and large sizes!

Oversized/overnight bags are £42.99 and darling diddy handbags are £32.99. All are handembellished with super-sweet buttons and bows and, as with all our bags, are made of veggie leather as to not upset the animals!

And don't forget they all, owl, fawn and bird, come in matching clutch/make-up bags and coin purses too!

We've also had a ton of new tote bags in recently and they are selling fast! Cute and classic kitsch designs from the likes of Hello Kitty, Marvel Comics, Disney and the Mr Men to name a few!

All at a pocket-friendly £8.99!

Bargain-ous!

MEGA SALE!!

2009-09-14T22:20:00.001+01:00

Out with the old, in with the new!

We're getting TONS of new stuff coming, from the likes of Newbreed Girl, Goodie Two Sleeves, Loungefly, Crowded Teeth, Lowbrow Art Company, Rock Steady, Sanrio & Toxico, alongside new lines and brands.

So now we need to CLEAR OUT LAST SEASONS DESIGNS!

It's priced to clear and when it's gone it's gone!

There's cut-price jewellery (from £4.50!) Toxico and Kirsten Easthope t-shirts (from £12.99) Toxico Cardigans, Sweatshirts and Hoodies from £23.99 and Loungefly hoodies at a ridiculous £26.99!

This is alongside all of our other bargains, Loungefly bags from £24.99 and Loungefly Wallets from just £9.99. Silly prices!

We also have a select range of Goodie Two Sleeves on sale at £14.99 each.

Our new stuff is well fit.

Here's a sneak preview...

We're excited!

x

Back...with a vengeance?!

2009-09-11T15:49:00.000+01:00

Well, phew, it's been a busy few months, hence the lack of posts. This summer has been filled with tattoo conventions and therefore lots of late nights, drinking and general debauchery, across the UK!

Here are some lovely pictures from Tattoo Jam last month.

Fran from Limb in camoflague mode - they sell lovely dresses, you should really buy one, I have two now.

The best car/van/fit automobile ever. Ooh I felt sexy just looking at it!

We've just returned from another adventure to London to buy lots of lovely new things for you guys, and we've also had a sneak preview at the Loungefly catalogue for Winter and they're done themselves proud once again! Gosh their stuff is sexy!

We will also be expanding our homewares section within the next few months due to popular demand.

Debit cards are still posing an issue for us however I PROMISE we are on the case, we just need to harass our webby-man a bit more, until then you can still use credit cards, paypal or cheques or simply call us at the shop and we'll sort you out!

Our new ranges are amazing, and they'll be arriving in the next few months so keep your eyes peeled. We've gone for a very sideshow-esque, circus themed winter period...and I don't think you'll be disappointed!

Tattoo Time Again!

2009-07-09T16:25:00.000+01:00

Following a lovely time at Liverpool we are hitting the road again on July 18th and 19th to attend Derby Tattoo Convention!

Yet again there shall be an entire 8m2 of Beadesaurus pleasure available!

And, of course, there shall be free cakes for everyone! No purchase necessary and all handmade, although this time not by Mommy Beadesaurus, but by myself. They may not have the three generation pedigree baking status that the mommy cakes had but they will be very tasty none the less! I may throw in some of my speciality gingerbread men if I'm feeling particularly home-maker-y.

As before, if there is anything specific that you would like us to bring simply email us at: info@beadesaurus.co.uk and we will do our very best to pack it up and bring it along!

See you there inky stinkies!

On another note we're getting ripped off again a lot lately, although this time not for our pictures (the watermaking appears to have deterred these fiends!) but for our site design and descriptions! I won't name the several silly culprits as they don't deserve any press, but it's beginning to make me ever-so grumpy. Grr!

We are 9!

2009-06-26T10:44:00.000+01:00

June 26th 2000 a very special baby was born...Beadesaurus! That means that today we are a whole 9 years old!

A brief photographic history of Beadesaurus...

Freshly after opening. Bead-tastic!

2004 - Year of the awful hair-don'ts!

2005 - When bags fell from the sky

2006 - Marple Was Born!

2007 - We extended and got VERY pink & started selling CLOTHES!

2009...TBC!

The next year is going to see some big changes again in the shop, for a start we're refurbing the little room as it's 9 year old paintwork is now beginning to flag a bit, we're doing more conventions and getting Beadesaurus out there even more.

And for next year's 10th birthday we're having a party...a big mother trucking party, and you're all invited. ALL OF YOU! We're going to start planning it early in 2010. So watch this space!

(...oh and Mr Beadesaurus is 29 today too, but that's not quite so exciting!)

Tattoo-tastic!

2009-06-01T15:53:00.000+01:00

Following a "not-quite-as-relaxing-as-should-have-been" holiday (however it was very nice to escape from the city for a while!) me and Mr Beadesaurus returned to an especially busy week; half term, website order backlogs and Liverpool tattoo convention this weekend!

Eep and yay all at the same time!

We're having a rather sizeable chunk of floor space for lovely Liverpool (4m x 2m) therefore an entire 8m2 of Beadesaurus pleasure is available! Ooh! And it's going to be pretty, veeeeeery pretty. If you would like to see just how much (and grab yourself a free, surprise present!) then you shall just have to come along and fondle our wares.

If there is anything specific that anybody would like us to bring simply email us at: info@beadesaurus.co.uk and I will do my very best to pack it up and bring it along!

See you there inky stinkers!

What a treat...

2009-05-12T00:29:00.000+01:00

Well, it appears that myself and Mr Beadesaurus are going on holiday on Saturday 16th May for the 2nd time in 5 whole years! I know, I know, I'm spoilt.

Therefore...

...orders made after 2pm-ish on Friday 17th will be dispatched on Tuesday 26th May as Monday the 25th is a Bank Holiday.

The Birmingham store will be open as normal as we have the joys of staff however Marple will be closed.

Any web orders will be processed and picked as I have shown the shop girlies how to use the magical t'interweb to check the orders however, as I said, they won't be sent until I get back from my jolly holly-days. I will also try and check it myself as apparently there is internet fun in the bar area, where I plan to spend much of my time (when not absorbing all the culture of course) as I can't leave it a whole week without getting scared it might catch fire or something and I'm a work-a-holic, why else would I be writing this blog at 12:45am?!

Items may sell out whilst I'm away without me being able to update the site, they shouldn't, but they might. There's always a chance. If this happens please don't be grumpy!

In other news we can now take credit and debit cards online without you needing a PayPal account, we still use PayPal as the terminal to process the details for safety but it's all grown up! Pretty soon we'll have our very own card machine and so we can do it all ourselves. Ooh!

On another note the new Loungefly is en route. Look at this bag, LOOK AT IT! Isn't it one of the MOST beautiful creations you have ever seen?! One is these is earmarked for me I'm afraid! Ooh it's delicious. It also comes in a clutch bag and a wallet. Delicious!

Can't wait! Although I bet it arrives when I'm on holiday grrrrrr!

Liverpool Tattoo Convention - 6th & 7th June 2009. I'm getting excited!

My Left Arm Is Famous!

2009-04-14T00:47:00.000+01:00

In the midst of last week's manic website makeover fixing sessions I, or rather my boyfriend, received a rather interesting phone call from a friend saying he had just seen my arm in a magazine. Now, it is no regular arm, he hadn't simply seen a bare arm and thought oh wow I know who that belongs to, oh no, it's my pug arm!

I really love my dog, maybe a bit too much (except when she wakes me up at 6am putting her toys in my mouth) and so last year I got the lovely Leah Moule to eternally etch her likeness upon my arm. Total Tattoo ran an article about Leah this month and my arm was in it which is pretty cool, even if I did have to pay an extortionate £4.20 to obtain it, the magazine, not the tattoo, I dread to think what a £4 tattoo would look like, ick!!

Here is my aforementioned Betty tattoo:

Keeping on the tattoo theme this year we have stalls at three of the best convestions, Liverpool in June, Derby in July and Tattoo Jam in August. We're really excited to be taking Beadesaurus on the road and hope to meet lots of new inky friends there!

IT'S A GIRL! OR A BOY! IT'S A WEBSITE!

2009-04-06T10:37:00.000+01:00

Late last night, from the depths of the server, a pink and cream stripey squealing infant was born!

Our new site.

I'm very much the proud new mother, here's the first picture...

Oh look how pretty!

It's still very fresh and so there are a few bits that need some TLC but all the products work, and you can spend your pennies on our lovely wares with ease!

On another, slightly stranger note, I was getting my Sunday marathon fix of Dog the Bounty Hunter last night when I noticed one of the arrestees was wearing our diamante sacred heart necklace! Now she may have been a junkie but it's still pretty friggin' cool! I caught her looking grumpy, I think it was because I was taking her picture.

Grumpy!

I've also added two new custom name necklaces, with another being added shortly, these are gorgeous and they're in the Beadesaurus swirly font. They've got real Swarovski crystal on them and are rather delicious if I say so myself!

Enjoy our new site. I know I am, even if it is keeping me up til 3:30am working on it!

Have a great week!

Our New Wesbite! New Loungefly!!!!!

2009-04-03T22:49:00.000+01:00

As you may have noticed, I'm currently in the process of deleting all the products from our old website in order to get ready for the new one to be launched on Monday. With over 1000 items it's becoming quite a task!

Agh!

And on top of tweaking all the little problems I'm finding with the new site this week we've had about 2 million deliveres. Well, maybe that's a little excessive but there's been LOADS! Hello Kitty (including Chococat!) (x 2 massive boxes), more Goodie Two Sleeves, the AMAZING cake jewellery, Fluff, new wallets & bags, silly donut lipglosses, Disney Couture aaaaaaannnnnnnnddddddd

NEW LOUNGEFLY!

The first batch of Spring/Summer has arrived...

...AND IT'S AMAZING!

I can't decide which t-shirt is my favouite, and for what reason! The tattoo one is gorgeous but I love the burgers and fries one, mainly because the fries have a moustache! A Moustache! I also adore the hug me bear, he has a little fuzzy heart on the front, it's so cute!

Loungefly have also started to manufacture clothes, bags and jewellery for the brand Crowded Teeth alongside the licenses they already have for Disney (we have a gorgeous new Alice bag by the way!), Skelanimals and others. The Crowded Teeth stuff is great, really different and wonderfully silly!

We've got just too much good stuff at the moment, and I've not got nearly enough time to sort it all out with this site launch at the moment. I actually have items queued to be put online. I still have to finish watermarking pictures so that grubby mitted lazy-bones can't nick them!

Oh so sleepy! Another late night and on-hold social life methinks!!

The times they are a changin'...

2009-03-27T12:54:00.000Z

Well, our sparkly new website is almost ready to go and the launch date has been announced!

Drum roll...........

April 6th.

A date to go down in history as one of those momentous occasions in world history.

April 6 is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of the year.

Although, it kinda already has. Several times.

1483 - Birth: Raphael, Italian painter and architect.

1520 -Death: Raphael, Italian painter and architect.

Pretty significant day for Raphael. Snuffing it on his birthday. Gutted.

1830 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette, New York.

Pretty good day for the Mormons too.

1869 - Celluloid is patented.

And celluloid.

1890 - Birth: Anthony Fokker

Also unfortunately named Dutch aircraft designers.

1895 - Oscar Wilde is arrested (in the Cadogan Hotel, London) after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.

No such a jolly time for Oscar Wilde. Naughty.

1930 - Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts the Salt Satyagraha.

Rock on Ghandi.

1978 -Birth: Myleene Klass, British singer

In December 2005, Klass was attacked by a group of teenagers in a newsagent in Bermondsey. Klass had a bag of chips dropped on her head. The teenagers attempted to take photos of Klass on their mobile phones.

2009 - BEADESAURUS LAUNCHED THEIR NEW SITE AND IT WAS SWEEEEEEEEET AND LOTS OF PEOPLE BOUGHT THINGS ON IT AND THEN THERE WAS WORLD PEACE AND HAPPINESS ABOUNDED!

Chips anyone?

P.S If you register on the site before April 6th I'll send you a sneaky 10% off voucher valid for the launch week! Ooh!

I WANT CANDY!

2009-02-28T15:55:00.000Z

Well, this week we got in a really tasty delivery full of sweeties inspired jewellery! There's cupcakes, huuuuuge gingerbread men, lollipops, ice creams and even donuts, in necklaces and brooches!

And that's not the end of our current candy-related jewellery spree! Next week we should FINALLY be getting our minature cake jewellery arriving! Ooh it's special! I haven't been this excited about a jewellery range since we got the tattoo flash range in 3 years ago!

I'm gonna have my cake, and eat it too! Nom nom!

On another note Rick (Mr Beadesaurus) has been out DJing as his alter-ego Ritchie Re-Issue again, putting on Maceo from the legendary De La Soul last Saturday at the Hare & Hounds over in King's Heath. As usual I was trapped on the door taking abuse from stingy people not wanting to pay £12 to see him, grr! Our friend Nick has just re-released his single which is getting a good spin on Mr Re-Issue's decks at the moment and he even managed to swindle a copy into Maceo's grubby mitts! Cheeky!

We're going up to the Marple store again this weekend to add more stock. Expect lots more lovely clothing being added, as we're chopping the counter in half to make more space for clothes, and less space for Rick's momma to dump stuff on, haha!

Ooh isn't it exciting!

Watermarked Pictures & Amazing New T-Shirts!

2009-02-17T22:34:00.000Z

Recently I have come across several sites using our pictures without permission, therefore I have taken the unfortunate and unwanted step of watermarking our pictures with the Beadesaurus name.

I spend hours working on our pictures, both taking and editing, and when I come across other sites using them advertising their own products it really irritates me. I can spend over an hour on a particularly intricate item however it takes only a second to right click and steal. Pictures are already our intellectual property and I am now reinforcing this with the logo being added.

On another, happier note, we got our delivery of amazing t-shirts from Goodie Two Sleeves and House of Mental. They are awesome! The designs are unique and original and have been seen on the likes of Paris Hilton and Justin Lee Collins, the quality is exceptional and they are fairly made in the USA! Starting at a mere £19.99 more can you ask for?!

Happy New Year!

2009-01-08T17:40:00.000Z

Happy New Year to all of our lovely customers!

2009 holds some very exciting changes for us with the website is being revamped into the site that it deserves to be. Our current site was a test to see if we liked selling online and if people liked us doing it! As it has been such a roaring success we're redecorating the whole she-bang and having a fancy new one with lots of clever new functions, dedicated sale area, vouchers for those on our mailing list, better stock control and much more! It's going to be sch-weet! And oh so pretty!

And we are going mobile once again! Our first stalls since 2007's Psychobilly Bash have been confirmed as Derby and Liverpool Tattoo Conventions with Manchester Convention, the Tattoo Bash and the Clothes Show distinct possibilities! There'll be more news closer to the dates.

As you can tell we're pretty darn excited and really hope that you are too!!