Welcome to the new Glitterwitch Website. I hope you will find it easy to navigate around and enjoy browsing through the pages. For those of you new to the site, I thought I would tell you a bit about how it all began. About seven years ago I was looking through a Beading Magazine when […]
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Sep
Sep
My love of beads and buttons began at a very early age, as a small child, in the 1960′. Mum had a button tin which contained all sorts of shapes and sizes and I remember spending many happy hours tipping the contents on the carpet and then slowly inspecting each one before placing it back […]
Lots of people have asked about our Size 9 TOHO Beads as it is an unusual size for seed beads. Well, it all began with Greenland Beading. This type of beadcraft started with the Danish returning from Greenland where it originated in a very primitive form In the beginning, the beads were made from fish […]
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Aug
Aug
Those of us who run small businesses, often take inspiration from other, usually successful, business owners. So who is your business hero? Â Is it someone like Sir Alan Sugar who started with nothing and worked his way up to being in the House of Lords advising on business matters? Of how about someone like Karren […]
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Jul
When you think of using beads for crafting, what do you think of? Making jewellery perhaps? Beaded jewellery is, of course, lovely, but there are so many more things you can do with beads. We have a range of Wooden Beads on our website and it never ceases to amaze me the things that […]
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Jul
Jul
Well, here we are again, and today’s blog is a little different – it is a beady poem. Beads, beads everywhere I’ve dropped them on the floor. They are rolling across the carpet And now heading for the door. They’ve rolled across the hallway And down the stairs they go. I don’t think I can […]
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Oct
Oct
We are having staffing problems here again at Glitterwitch.For those of you who haven’t met our staff, please see the post below for details. Things are getting a little tense at Glitterwitch HQ ……. The dragons are up to their tricks again They’ve been skating on beads ‘cross the floor! Apart from the noise and the […]
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Sep
Sep
Most of you know that I have a few helpers to share the workload at Glitterwitch. Alfie the Elf is in Charge of ‘Elf ‘n’ Safety Lena is a Purple Accounting Dragon (sister to Lorna) Lorna is a Purple Marketing Dragon (sister to Lena) Pearl is a Spiral Witch in charge of Beading advice (sister […]
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Aug
Aug
Ever wondered about the face behind the Wonderful World of Glitterwitch? Well wonder no more! A couple of months ago I got an email from Kent Life Magazine asking if they could interview me for an article entitled “Silver Entrepreneurs” I wasn’t sure if that meant that I didn’t quite make gold, or simply that […]
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Aug
Aug
Those of you looking for the Blog on Greenland Beading, I am afraid it has had to be postponed until later in the year. Apologies for that, but I seem to have lost my notes. Well, when I say lost them – oh perhaps I had better explain! Many of you know that I have […]