Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Happy New Year!!

Hello in 2012...New Year and Christmas seem a long time ago now but I did had a fun and relaxing Festive break. I have returned to The Oxford Bead Shop feeling ready for a great year ahead. We have lots of new exciting events this year such as The Oxford Summer School, Birmingham School of Jewellery, Wilderness Festival, Denman College and not to mention all the new workshops happening at the shop. I am very excited and would like to thank everybody for their support.

2011 finished with lots of commissions, workshops and new stock. Its lovely to think that Amy Surman presents are being handed out around the world!! We had some very successful workshops last year - the results can be viewed on our Facebook Page but here's a few to tempt you.


Decorative Wire Cuff

Chain Making

Introduction to Lampwork Beads

As you can see Harry's still as handsome as ever...he's going to be five next month!! I can't believe how time flys by so quickly. He was soooooo happy to get back to work this morning...he was even scratching as the door to get in and greeted a lot more people than usual today. It is great to be back to work, seeing all my customers, students and being surrounded by sparkly things all day!!

As I've said I'm very much looking forward to 2012 and would like to wish everybody else a happy and exciting 2012.

Amy

xx

Friday, 16 September 2011

New IPad App

Just trying out my new app...Blogpress. Not sure how it all works so this is a little tester!
Picture? I discovered this while searching for images of flowers...a lovely blog flowersbyirene.blogspot.com


That was easy!!....now let's publish it.

Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Location:The Oxford Bead Shop

Thursday, 18 August 2011

New Kits on the way...

A little piccie to tempt the taste buds...new Christmas Kits!!

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Summer School..

For the past two days I've been teaching twelve 10-13yr old girls jewellery making for D'Overbroecks Summer School. It's been really good fun so far...they're all doing so well. I'm feeling tired already and I still have two days left!! At least Lucy's with me on Thursday. I'll post more at the weekend...

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Friday, 5 August 2011

New Beads

Look at these lovely new beads we have in stock. They are about 4-5cms in size and made of acrylic with silver foil running through them. We think they look like Quality Street sweets!!! Perfect for a knotting project with some 2mm cotton cord. The best thing is they're only 70p each!! We have eight different colours and they come in a round and oval shape.

Monday, 1 August 2011

August Sunshine

Harry and I are having a lovely time in the garden. I'm sat reading books and rethreading some necklaces while listening to music and Harry's hiding from the sunshine under the chair. It really is beautiful today...fingers crossed it lasts for the whole of August!