Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Healing Beads



  • Beads, creativity, and healing are related. 
  • Beads help us to break through the walls of doubt and criticism that prevent us from exploring our full artistic potential.
  • Beads are a pathway to greater creativity and source for personal healing.
  • If you want creativity, if you want to develop your artistic abilities, work with beads. 
  • Beads are inherently creative due to the infinite variety of their colors, shapes, sizes, materials and texture.
  • This artistic medium allows you to be like a child in a castle, every room filled with unique, challenging and beautiful toys, and hours to play with them.
 
  • - Beads are good therapy and much cheaper than a therapist.
  • - Beads bring beauty and a creative force to our lives that is healing and nurturing.
  • - You and I are worth it; and we don’t have to sell our work to prove it!
  • - Beads are valuable, whether they’re in a drawer, on our works-in-progress, or on a finished piece.
  • - Making things with beads, even simply holding or looking at them, connects us to our artistic side, our creative force.
Robin Atkins (extracts from her book "One Bead at a Time")

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Online Beadshops

Online Shops
Cranberry: www.cranberry.net.au (Ultra Suede, Nymo thread, needles, seed beads, cabochons etc)
3rd Rock: www.3rdrock.com.au ( cameos, caboshons)
Beads Online: www.beadsonline.com.au
Space Trader: www.spacetrader.com.au
Feeling Inspired: www.feelinginspired.com.au
Wholesale Beads (Cheltenham): www.wholesalebeads.com.au
Shop 51, 148 Chesterville Rd, Moorabbin VIC 3189, Australia
Beads Venue: www.beadsvenue.com.au
Polymer Clay: www.polymerclay.com.au (Ultra Suede, ring and bracelet bases)
Oz Beads: www.ozbeads.com.au
Gems & Beads International: www.gemsandbeads.com.au
AE Metal: www.aemetal.com.au (silver and jewellery supplies)
Shops
Ajit Gems: http://ajitgems.com/ (gemstones and silver)
Room 904B, Level 9, Century Building, 125 Swanston Street, Melbourne - VIC 3000
P: 61-3-96392241
E: ajitmel@bigpond.net.au 
Koodak: www.koodak.com.au (silver and jewellery supplies)
Company Name: Koodak Jewellers Supplies (Vic) Pty Ltd
Opening Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday
Email Address: koodak@koodak.com.au
Contact Phone Number: (03) 9654 5811
Address: 4th Floor, 125 Swanston St, Melbourne 3000 Vic
Maria George (beading and embellishments):
179 Flinders La, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
 (03) 9658 7333