Fimo Plum soft Polymer Clay is a modelling clay perfect for beginners. As the name suggests it is soft and malleable making it easy to shape. Ideal for small models and jewellery items. The clay is baked in a standard oven to harden making it a really accessible craft. To oven harden, set your oven … Read more
Fimo Lavender soft Polymer Clay is a modelling clay perfect for beginners. As the name suggests it is soft and malleable making it easy to shape. Ideal for small models and jewellery items. The clay is baked in a standard oven to harden making it a really accessible craft. To oven harden, set your oven … Read more
Fimo Raspberry soft Polymer Clay is a modelling clay perfect for beginners. As the name suggests it is soft and malleable making it easy to shape. Ideal for small models and jewellery items. The clay is baked in a standard oven to harden making it a really accessible craft. To oven harden, set your oven … Read more
These cute and fun Polymer Clay Smiley Face Beads are great for colourful crafts. The beads have a 1mm hole running through the centre, side to side. The beads measure 9mm in diameter and are approximately 5mm thick. The strings of polymer clay smiley face beads have a random mix of colours on them. They … Read more
I thought I’d share my experiments working with polymer clay. I’ve always enjoyed trying my hand at different crafts of all kinds. An inclination has only been encouraged since working at The Bead Shop. Being surrounded by tools and materials all day. As well as interacting with our inspiring customers and staff certainly helps me … Read more
Our Free Easter Beading Pattern – how to make your own brick stitch decorative eggs is a great way to get into beading. Eggs are an obvious shape to work with for Easter crafts, symbolising new life. They’re also a fun shape to get creative with. We’ve put together several fun designs along with blank … Read more
We often get asked in the shop for help choosing gifts so we thought we’d put together a Christmas gift guide for the bead and craft lovers in your life. We’ve each chosen a product we think would make a great gift or we’d love ourselves. Hana’s gift suggestion My gift suggestion would be the Around … Read more
With plans disrupted this half term and many of us spending yet more time at home, we have gathered together some kids craft ideas for the school holidays! With Halloween parties and trick or treating off the cards, it doesn’t mean you can’t make some spooky Halloween decorations. This pre-printed Halloween Shrink Plastic sheet comes … Read more
Sometimes being faced with a blank canvas, whether it’s an actual canvas or a bead, can feel a little daunting. So I thought I’d share some inspiration for how to decorate natural wooden beads. Sometimes wanting to find the right colour to go with a particular garment can be enough to spark your inspiration. I … Read more
If you thought macrame was all about boho wall hangings and seventies plant hangers, think again! Macrame jewellery puts decorative knotting and simple jewellery making skills together to create some incredible pieces of jewellery.
Hi Steph here, I thought I’d show you how to make your own beaded felt bowls! You may have seen these beautiful bowls in our bead shop or on our social media. We launched them for our 20th Birthday party back in January. We wanted an alternative to the plastic tubs that customers use to collect their beads in whilst shopping.
We are in the process of re-formatting all our free projects into our new, more user-friendly project gallery page! How To Leaflet Our how to leaflet contains information for you to get to grips with the basics of jewellery making. It details the basic tools and components used for making earrings, bracelets and necklaces as … Read more
These glass leaf beads are strung in quantities of 50. Each string of these Czech glass leaf beads has a random selection of gorgeous leafy shades including greens, browns, purples, white and black. There’s also a mixture of transparent, opaque, frosted and metallic finishes making it wonderful selection. These bead are perfect for all sort … Read more
Jewellery Repair, Quick Fix and Bespoke Jewellery Services in Nottingham Do you have old broken necklaces, brooches with missing stones or pierced earrings that you can no longer wear? If so get in touch and we’ll give you a quote for fixing it. We have several levels of repair (which we call restringing) and quick … Read more
Jewellery Making ClassesatThe Bead Shop Nottingham Join us in our beautiful workshop room to learn how to make your own jewellery, start beading or learn a new craft. Located above our Nottingham shop in the heart of Nottingham City Centre. We can also offer Virtual classes hosted via Google Meet. If you can’t find the … Read more
