Well here we are at the end of March already and that means an increase in Royal Mail charges. Sadly we will also have to increase our postal charges by 5p to cover the increase. It is always difficult working out the postal charges for the website as we sell such a diverse range of […]
I am very excited to tell you that we have a new range of Wooden Beads on the website in some great colour co-ordinated packs:Â We have stocked Polished Wooden Beads in Brown Tones for some time and as they have proven to be popular I have added these colours to the range. Blue Tones […]
Well here we are in March 2018 and just when we are thinking Spring, the snow arrives. That makes it an ideal time to stay inside in the warm and craft. There is still time to make something for Mother’s Day – if you are quick, but then there is Easter hard on its heels. […]
Well here we are in that in-between time when Christmas is over and the New Year celebrations are still to come. These few days at the end of the year always seem to be a time of reflection for me, getting ready for the challenges of a new year. This year I have been thinking […]
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Dec
Dec
I know Halloween is over and you all thought that you were done with spiders until next year. But I want to tell you the story of the Christmas Spider so that you will understand why you must have a spider hanging in your Christmas Tree. On Christmas Eve, a long time ago, a gentle […]
Well, here we are in November 2017 and Christmas is just around the corner. We have added some new Childrens Craft Kits this month in time for your Christmas shopping. They are listed by age so that you can instantly tell if they are suitable for your little ones. Our kits range from Age 3 […]
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 […]