40 free Etsy listings!!!

Hi my lovely beading people :)

I already posted this a few times here and there. But I wanted to place this on my blog to so that everyone can benifit :) I started my own Etsy shop (it's still empty so no link yet :) ) and I hope to start selling soon. I'm working hard on my own business cards and stuff like that. I'm making it all myself so I can completely disign how I want my packing material to look.

I will soon also make a video where I show my business cards and other stuff I've made, so that everyone can see that making your own issen't tat hard!

If you also want to start your own Etsy shop, I suggest you click the link below. For every person that starts there own Etsy shop through this link we get both 40 free listings!! So we both benifit! 

Happy beading!!
HoneyBeads

40 free listings!!

Ow my gosh I'm so sorry!!!

Hi my lovely beading people!

Ow my gosh I'm so sorry!!! :(

When one of you write something underneath my blogpost, I get a message of that in the inbox of my blog. Because I answered everything I wanted to delete the answered messages out of my inbox, but I accidentally deleted the posts from my blog :S

So I'm so so sorry! That wassen't what I wanted to do at all!!

So please, if you have a question post this again underneath the post! I'm so so sorry!
I feel a little stupid at this moment :(

Sorry sorry sorry!!!
HoneyBeads

A little about selling my stuff...

Hi my lovely beading people :)

How are you today?

I get many requests of people how ask me if I sell my jewelry. Because I get that question so often, I thought I should make a blog post about this :)

As some of you might know, normaly I will go to a Christmas fair once a year, but this year I won't because I don't have the time to properly prepare myself. But of course this is only in the Netherlands, so people from other country's have nothing to do with this.

I'm still working on my website, but I did not diside yet if that will be a dutch site or a intenational site. If it will be dutch only, I will create an etsy page, so that I can sell worldwide. But why wait so long you might ask?

Well that has all to do with my time, or at least the lack of it. If somebody wants a costum order, I want to be able to really take my time for that. But I don't have that time at this moment. Also I need a stash of jewelry, because I know that some people rather buy something they can already see, instead of making up there mind on how they want it to look.

Also I want my own label, business card, my own packaging and other stuff like that. I really want any order to be a present to get. And I really want my own look and feel if you know what I mean. I want people to recognize my packaging in one glance of an eye. But this takes time and cost a lot of money. But I won't do it for less.

Also I'm creating a new bead stock with only quality beads and findings. I want this not only for myself and the name I have to keep up, but also to give my customers the best they can get. Also I found out that people from other country's arren't as greedy as dutch people. They know what handmade costs and how much time it takes to make something and they respect the prizes that come with that. So if I would only be able to sell in the Netherlands, I would have to use cheaper materials than I can use for other country's. So this takes me a while before I have enough good quality materials to make and sell any request. Because as most of the people, I don't have a pile of money laying around to spend on beads (I wish I had gosh hihi) So I love to go and by quality beads, but it will take me some time.

Speaking about time, I will not have that in a while either. My son is now 2,5 years old, so I will have to wait a while before he go's to school. But when he does I will have plenty of time to bead all day. And that is the time I will start making and selling custom orders. Probebly that is also the time I will start making patterns in PDF files, so you van download them.

So I hope everything is clear on the how and why's about selling or don't selling my jewelry. I hope you understand and I will keep you updated on this subject.

Have a lovely beading week!
HoneyBeads

Ideas and Happiness!!!

Hi my lovely beading people! :)

How are you today? Did you see one of my last video's? You might have noticed that I 'showed' myself for the first time! If you didden't see me there, go ahead and take a look! In that way you will have a face to go with the blogposts :)

I'm excited to tell you that the DIY beading club (http://www.diybeadingclub.com) invited me to be in there next monthly issue! They make internet magazines with patterns that you can buy for your tablet or pc. (PDF files)
And in the next issue there will be a little article about me :D Issen't that cool!

Some of you might have seen my 'Beads for Blogpost Contest Winner' video. I got 1 kilo of beads send to me from Preciosa Ornela (http://preciosa-ornela.com/)!!! In the video I show you wat is in the package and it the video I explain how you can have a shot at such a great prize to! I'm still very exited about my prize and I will make a lot of good jewelry with them! I use the pen that was in the package every day, and every day it reminds me of how lucky I am to have such great beading friends :)

I'm working on many projects at the samen time as usual :) I'm totaly in to wire wrapping the last few weeks, I'm working on Christmas items and I still need to think of 'normal' beading projects. I'm also working on a big project, and for my 'Don't got time for that' days I will have project that need a redo video :) So enough work for me!

Gianna (http://www.youtube.com/user/Beading4perfectionis) made a Etsy page (http://www.etsy.com/shop/B4perfectionists) where she offers a written pattern in PDF file for 2 dollars (that is 1 dollar fees and 1 dollor fund raising) I thought that was a very good idea. So I think I will follow in her foot steps and I will make my patterns in to written versions to. It will take me some time to do this, and I can't promis you when it will be ready. I want to do this because I get a lot of questions if people can print the instructions, or that I can speak in my photo tutorials. So my sulusion is that I will make written patterns with pictures and sell them on etsy, and the rest of my video's will be spoken. In this way I try to avoid comments like 'Can you please talk us through' or 'Are there any written instructions?'

I still don't know what I want to tell and/or show you on this blog. But I had a thought that it might be nice to put little updates about beading here, and maybe a little more about me and what I do besides beading. Because there is more to me than beading, although that is a big part of my life hihi :)

Have a lovely day :)
HoneyBeads

I'm back!!

Hi my lovely beading people!

How are you today? Sorry I have been away for a while now, but I was very very busy! In 1,5 month we had about 15 birthdays and 1 wedding! So I was more away then I was at home. Most of the time I was really tired at the end of the day and I just could'nt make anything. Nothing came out of my hands. But If I had an idea I would just make a little sketch of it so that now I can still work out these jewelry pieces.

Some of you might have noticed that I have a camera now! It is already half mine, because I have to pay back my Auntie the other half. So a big thank you to her for making it possible for me to shoot some video's already! She said that she could really see this is my passion and that this is something I want to keep doing. And that is why she helped me so that I didden't have to wait to the end of this year. 

Is it already nice and warm in youre country? Here it is raining at this moment. I really don't mind that much because it is nice beading wheater :) But most of the people here are complaining about the wheater. This are the same people how also complain when it is really warm in a couple of months, people will always complain about something :)

That brings me to a different subject. I don't know if all of you how read my blog also follow me on Facebook, but we had an little 'grouptalk' there about me placing the following;

Hi my lovely beading people.

Now I don't want to upset anyone, but I have to get this one of my chest. I consider to be myself a loving and gentle person how treats other people with respect, because I like to be treated that way myself. So if you comment on my video something like "I like your video but you spell this word that way" or "This is not really my cup of tea but thanks for sharing" I consider this to be constructive criticism or at least your own opinion and I respect this.

But if your going to comment somthing like "Youre nails are ugly and I hate this bracelet" or "Youre voice is so annoying, stop making video's" I consider that to be a lack of respect and I will immediately remove your comment and block you for the rest of my time on youtube. Just because if you don't respect me, why should I respect you?

I think we all now what are disrespectful comments, so if you don't make these you don't have to worry.

I have a very thick skin because I went true a lot in my life, so it does'nt effect me in any way. But I just want to protect our beading group from negative people, because they don't add anything positive to our society.

I hope that this message is clear to all of you, lots of love
Honeybeads
But if your going to comment somthing like "Youre nails are ugly and I hate this bracelet" or "Youre voice is so annoying, stop making video's" I consider that to be a lack of respect and I will immediately remove your comment and block you for the rest of my time on youtube. Just because if you don't respect me, why should I respect you?
I think we all now what are disrespectful comments, so if you don't make these you don't have to worry.
I have a very thick skin because I went true a lot in my life, so it does'nt effect me in any way. But I just want to protect our beading group from negative people, because they don't add anything positive to our society. 
I hope that this message is clear to all of you, lots of loveHoneybeadsBut if your going to comment somthing like "Youre nails are ugly and I hate this bracelet" or "Youre voice is so annoying, stop making video's" I consider that to be a lack of respect and I will immediately remove your comment and block you for the rest of my time on youtube. Just because if you don't respect me, why should I respect you?I think we all now what are disrespectful comments, so if you don't make these you don't have to worry.I have a very thick skin because I went true a lot in my life, so it does'nt effect me in any way. But I just want to protect our beading group from negative people, because they don't add anything positive to our society. 

I hope that this message is clear to all of you, lots of love

Honeybeads

I just really do care about all of you lovely beaders, and I don't want negative energie in our group. And I don't have any joy in deleting people how are disrespectful, but I don't let anyone walk over me and my lovely beading people. Because I look at it in this way, what effects my friend effects me to. And I can proof that it is true, because this topic was the best vieuwed and talked about topic of my facebook page ever!


How do you like my crafting tutorials? I love making them! I will keep making these and they will all be jewelry or gift realated. I think they are a nice variation on the beading video's, something simple to do when youre bored :)

Also I found another to-go-with-beading hobby! I'm making cards now! I will show you more of this in the future but at this moment I'm still a beginner, so there is not much to see yet :) Maybe I will show the cards I made on my facebook page :)

So sorry if this blogpost is a little bit all over the place, but at least you know now that I will start wrighting on my blog again now :) I will start to catch up on photo's and stuff like that tonight :)

Have a lovely day,
HoneyBeads

Spring days in the snow

Hi my lovely beading people!

This time a different blog post that usual. Don't get me wrong please, I am a very happy person that enjoys life every day. But even happy people get unhappy feelings...

I wassen't in the mood for a while to wright something on my blog. Not because I don't care about you guys! But just because... well I have... well lets call it the Winterblues. It is still snowing here, and al though I like snow and winter time a lot, I kind of start getting a little depressed of the dark winter days. My Christmas tree is gone of course ( I mean its 15th of March so it should be) but I miss my tree a lot. I miss the lights and the happy decoration. Something I bump in to every year again and again. Normaly I would hide myself in dark and alone places if I get this feeling, but this time I decided to make my house spring ready. In this way I tried to give my depression a positive turn, and it worked! :)

With my hubby and son I went to town and bought a lot of colorfull fake flowers, birds, hearts and other joyfull stuff to decorate the house with. I cleaned my house a little extra and I also bought some fresh new plants. I have to say that that worked a lot better than hiding myself! I try to take a walk every day with my son to see the sunshine and I go to bed early to rise fresh in the morning.

At this moment I can say I'm doing fine and I'm getting much more happy already! My hubby bought me the missing 6 lamps that go in my chandelier above my beading table, it shines so bright that I can even see the colors of my beads again haha :D Also I already asked everyone to give me money for my birthday so that I can buy a videocamera. I don't know if ot will be enough but in this way I can get it faster than the end of the year :) They all thought it was a good idea so that made me very happy to. I'm always a little shy to ask something for my birthday and I'm glad with almost everything. So it was a big step to ask money but I'm glad I did it!

So hopefully I stay in the happy mood now! I will do my best :) I'm so glad I have you guys supporting me! It means a lot to me :)

Have a lovely beading week!
Lots of love, HoneyBeads

Valentine's soutache

Hi my lovely beading people :)

How are you all doing today? It's cold and rainy here in the Netherlands. Perfect beading weather! My dear friend Gianna introduced me to soutache. So if you heard some loud swearing a few weeks ago, that might have been me haha. The needle and the inside of my finger met a couple of times, my thread came apart, my stone fel out of my beadwork and it go's on like that. So you might understand that after my first soutache piece, I never wanted to work with soutache ever again!

But then I started to work with the other more shiny threas I had. And that was so much better! So after my brown/gold one I made this pair of earrings;

I found them to be much better then the bracelet. The materials was very soft and my needle glide trough the middle as if it was butter! So I made a second project;

This time a pendant. I thought it was easier to make 1 good project as a beginner, because in this way you don't have to make 2 the same pieces to make it look good. But when I was half way, my rivoli fell out of my bead work :S. My soutache was damaged on one side. But I remembered that somebody made a tutorial on how to glue on your soutache. So I thought, lets give that a try and maybe safe my soutache this way?! That was succesful! After this one I decided to make my first Valentine's Day soutache pendant!

I think this is a romantic piece with the roses and the hearts :) I made this one in to a tutorial. You can check it out on my youtube channel if you like.

Have a lovely beading week!
Greetings HoneyBeads