Selling your handmade jewellery at a craft show can be a great way to get your beadwork out there and make some sales. When you’re just getting started with selling, shows can be daunting, so I asked my beading friend Shelley to share her tips!
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The Beader’s Calendar 2026
It’s January! Are you ready to sparkle?! I have just the project to kick-start your beading year!
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Daisy Chain Bracelets – Free Project
After the success of my Beaded Daisy Chains taster class, which I ran locally in October, I decided to share with you the pattern and video for this fun technique!
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Holiday Wreath Earrings – Free Pattern for Jill Wiseman Designs
Feeling festive? You’re going to love these cute beaded wreath earrings – a great free pattern I’ve designed exclusively for Jill Wiseman Designs.
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Exercises for beaders – how to do away with aches and pains after beading
Like many beaders, I struggle with sore wrists and shoulders, and tired eyes after prolonged beading sessions. Let’s face it, we all sit beading for longer than we probably should! Here are 10-minute exercises you can do every day to improve your beading wellness – bookmark this video for easy watching.
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US Shipping Update
UPDATE – Sept 9th 2025 GOOD NEWS! I’m now shipping to the USA again! On my website, the flat rate postage & packaging (P&P) now includes your pre-paid customs duties. It has meant that I have had to increase the cost of P&P to account for this. Flat rate P&P to USA is now £24.
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Toho Challenge 2025
I’m so excited that I can finally unveil my entry into the Team TOHO Beads 2025 Challenge: SUCCULENT GARDEN
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Fruity Pyramids – Exclusive Free Pattern for Jill Wiseman
I’m so excited to share another free beading pattern with you through Jill Wiseman Designs! I had a lot of fun designing and beading this one!
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Parading Together – Pinkhot Beaders’ Entry to the Beadworkers Guild Challenge
The parade has passed down St Charles Avenue, but the magic of Mardi Gras remains. The giant floats of New Orleans icons have paused; the exhausted krewes are seeing doubloons everywhere they look, even on the wheels of their floats! Beads and ‘throws’ litter the ground (and trees), but there are more parties to come […]
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Why Beading Makes Us Feel Good
Can you bead your way to better mental health? As part of this May’s mental health theme in my Facebook group, we dived into the science of WHY beading makes us happy. The long and the short of it was that beading IS good for us!
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