Holiday Open House at Beads N Botanicals, Urbana, IL

Beads N Botanicals

Holiday OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, December 18

11am to 4pm

Join us for Mulled cider & Light Refreshments.

Bead Trunk Show in Urbana, IL, Sunday, Nov 13

Bead Trunk Show, One-Day Only, at Beads N Botanicals in downtown Urbana, from 11am to 4pm on Sunday, November 13.

Cash & Carry (checks with ID)

This one-day event features the works of Jamie Bossert. Strands of precious and semi-precious stones will be available, including the following: iolite, peridot, tourmaline, garnet, citrine, carnelian, labrodorite, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, aquamarine, opal, amethyst, lapis lazuli and more.

Jewelry artists will appreciate the beauty of Jamie's work. These are incredible beads that you won't find elsewhere.

Jamie Bossert an lapidary artisan from the Blue Springs, Missouri has been fascinated with rocks  since she was 10 years old. That is when she started working with her grandfather tumbling and polishing stones to set jewelry for her grandmother, mother, and aunt.  After working in her father's industrial tool company's machinery shop, she learned  how to cut, grind and drill her own stones.  Her passion for  the simple  river rock stones, the mountains she sees in her travels,  and gemstones shows in the unique and beautiful strands of semi-precious and precious stones that she sells.

Please Note: All beads, beading supplies, and pendants normally available at Beads N Botanicals will be available at a fifteen percent discount, just for the day of the Bead Trunk Show (discount does not apply to beads from the One-Day Only Trunk Show by artisan Jamie Bossert). 

Beads N Botanicals is located in downtown Urbana, next to the Black Dog Smoke & Ale House at 117 North Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-365-9355

Beach Party Fridays at Beads N Botanicals in Champaign-Urbana, Central Illinois

Beach Party Fridays: Celebrate Summer the third Friday of the month at Beads N Botanicals, 117 North Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

When the heat is on, it’s time to stop in at Beads N Botanicals for cool Summer drinks, Beach party music, jewelry making and readings on “The Boardwalk." Special sales discounts will also be available on selected beads and other items each Beach Party Friday.

Cool off with some iced tea or lemonade, make beach-themed anklets, bracelets or necklaces. Enjoy the casual beach party music and atmosphere and kick back for some Summer fun without a long drive. Cost: $5 per jewelry project. Children welcome to make a project (accompanied by an adult).

--Readings on “The Boardwalk.” Different readers will be scheduled each month ($20 per 15 minute session). Call for appointment (217-365-9355) or just stop in!
Friday, June 18th , 12noon-5pm Friday July 16th , 12noon-5pm Friday, August 20th , noon-5pm

Cost

Payment required. $5 per jewelry project. $20 per 15 minute reading session.

Links

• [Info] Beads N Botanicals Shop Info
• [Website] Wise Weeds Shop

Jade, Coral, Turquoise Beads, New Votives and Soaps, Other Crystals in Urbana Shop

Hope to have the Summer Schedule published in about a week. Things should get hopping once again here at Beads N Botanicals starting in June. In addition to our Psychic Fair on Saturday, June 12, from 10am to 5pm, Marlita will continue to be available every other Wednesday (and a Saturday or two) for reflexology (foot massage) and Reiki energy healing sessions. Call for an appointment.

In other news, by the end of next week, we should have most of our new crystals, crystal candleholders, faceted glass rondelles and other beads out and available for purchase. We were lucky to get a few more Selenite candleholders (our regular supplier is no longer carrying them), citrine cluster and amethyst cluster tea light holders. They are absolutely gorgeous.

As you may know,Amethyst is known as a Stone of Sobriety, love, intuition, intellect and healing. Cuts through illusion. Good for meditation. It is a crystal that also increases psychic gifts.

Citrine is used to detoxify the body and regenerate tissue.  It is a stone of hope and abundance. This crystal does not hold negative energy, but instead transmutes it. This “merchant’s stone” is placed in a cash box to product more income for the merchant. Helps in maintaining wealth as well. Stimulates mental focus & endurance.  Dispels fear & brings sunshine into darkness.

There's already an incredible selection of real Jade, Carnelian, Coral and Turquoise beads new at the shop. If you thought we had a great selection before, check out these beads now! If you have not been in the shop for a while, you've been missing out.
 
 Looking for blown glass pendants or metal focal pieces? Or are wood beads or mother of pearl (MOP) pendants and beads more your style? New gemstone chip necklaces and beads include blue lace agate, smokey quartz and snowflake obsidian.
 
In addition to beads and findings, we've been making more of our signature brand Wise Weeds Botanicals votives, soaps and incense. By June we will also have incredible Shea Butter soaps, with natural essential oils of lavender, peppermint, patchouli and more.
 

Drum Circle & Bellydancing: Beads N Botanicals Boneyard Festival Events

BEADS N’ BOTANICALS Boneyard Arts Festival Events:

Sat, April 17, 2-3:30pm: “Rattle the Boneyard:  A Community Drum Circle,” bring drums, rattles or other musical instruments to participate

Sat 3:30-4:30pm: Trikhala, a bellydance troupe made up of UIUC graduate and undergraduate students, will perform choreographed and improv bellydance pieces. The group’s Tribal Fusion dance style mixes American tribal-style bellydance with elements of traditional ethnic bellydance and contemporary dance styles such as hip hop. 

Artisans include:  Athan Chilton: lampworked beads, Karen Gottlieb: Inspirational Collage, Angela Graveline: acrylic painting, Evelyne Tardy: Mandela paintings, Jean Nonman: handcrafted wooden boxes, Marlita Hasbargen: Dream catchers, Smudge feathers, & paper bead jewelry, Tara Allen: Photography, Vicki Brown: jewelry 

Originally Athan Chilton was supposed to demonstrate lampworking beads, however, a broken foot has put her "out of the running" so to speak. We are hoping to schedule a demonstration in the future when she is physically up to it.

 

Faceted Glass Rondelle Beads Sparkle & Shine at Urbana Bead Shop

Beads N Botanicals Sparkly faceted rondelles. New in the shop. Great for holiday jewelry making!

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Swarovski™ Crystal Butterflies Fly into Central Illinois' Beads N Botanicals Shop

Calling all beaders in Central Illinois!

We are still sorting through the new bead shipment that arrived last week here at Beads N Botanicals in Urbana, IL.

As promised, I did get the new Swarovski™ crystals out in the front case. We’ve brought in more 8mm bicones (as well as an assortment of other sizes), some rounds and rondelles, as well as some new colors.

Highlights include Swarovski™ Crystal Butterflies in all their available sizes: 5mm, 6mm, 8mm and 10mm. Bright, shimmery butterflies to adorn earrings, bracelets and necklaces. By the way, the latest fashion trends are featuring butterfly accents in clothing, furniture, and jewelry designs.

If you have never seen the Swarovski™ Crystal Cantaloupe beads, you need to stop by and check them out. We ordered a small selection of bicone, cube and round crystal beads in this color. With Cantaloupe beads, you get three colors in one. In one type of light, the crystals appear a light green. In another type of light, the beads appear clear to pale grey in color. Shift your lighting once more, and the crystals have a peachy cantaloupe color. Not only are these colors among the fashion colors for the upcoming Spring/Summer 2009 fashion season, they are also hot colors for the Fall/Winter 2009 fashion scene. Never mind that they are just a neat crystal to work with.

As always here at the Beads N Botanicals shop, you can select as few as one Swarovski™ Crystal bead for a project or a 100 Swarovski™ crystals. The choice is yours.

Bogart's closes its doors - News

Bogart's closes its doors - News

I was surfing the web and found this old news article at the Daily Illini. Thought it was interesting because many people say we're about as close as it gets to the old Bogart's. Although we do NOT offer piercing services, Beads N Botanicals does offer body jewelry, as well as more than a couple of hundred types of hand-dipped incense that we make right in Urbana, handblended oils, handmade candles, jewelry, crystals and more.

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Beads N Botanicals In Urbana

Ribbon cutting at Beads N Botanicals(Pictured l to r, Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing,
Beads N Botanicals Owner Catherine Novak and Ethel Womble)

Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing officiated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a new shop in downtown Urbana, Beads N Botanicals, at 117 N Broadway Ave.

Beads N Botanicals Celebrates Its Second Anniversay

Beads N Botanicals Second Anniversary with Holiday Open House

Beads N Botanicals' Second Anniversary Holiday Open House takes place on Saturday, November 17, 2007, from 10 am to 5 pm

There will be door prizes, refreshments, gift ideas, special discounts, craft demonstrations, one-minute tarot readings and more.

“It’s been very satisfying to see how so many people have come to our shop in Hoopeston,” says Catherine Novak, proprietress of Beads N Botanicals. “Whether someone is interested in learning how to make jewelry, or reduce stress in their life through meditation, they’re finding out how to do that here.”

The shop, which opened in 2005, features aromatherapy, crystals, essential oils, books, handmade jewelry, handcrafted oil blends & incense, soaps, bath salts, candles, herbs for tea, medicinal and culinary use; beading and wire wrapping supplies: including sterling silver wire, seed beads, semi-precious stones, sterling silver beads, milfoil, seed beads, Swarovski ™ crystals and much more.

Can't make it on Saturday? Don't worry, we'll be celebrating the whole week of November 20 through November 24 (but remember, we're closed on Thanksgiving!).

New at our shop....REED DIFFUSERS. Don't want to worry about lit candles or using electricity? We've got the answer: Reed diffusers that work to disperse fragrance naturally throughout a room. And we offer OVER 200 scent blends. Custom bottling of any blend you want, including aromatherapy blends with REAL essential oils.


Beads N Botanicals, 227 S. Market St,
(next to the Harris Agency), Hoopeston, IL 60942
Phone: 217-283-6380

STORE HOURS: Tuesdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday-Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Catherine Novak has served as an adjunct faculty member for Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pa., been a featured speaker at Barnes & Noble; and spoken about medicinal herbs on the Health Nuts NJ radio show. She appeared on the Judy Lewis show: Psychic World. Also, she and her son appeared on ABC's Sunrise This Morning out of Champaign, IL.

Catherine is available for individual herbal and health consultations, hypnotherapy for behavior modification, relaxation and pain management, Reiki energy balancing, tarot readings and classes at her office at Beads N Botanicals, and can be reached at at 217-283-6380 or beadsnbotanicals@gmail.com

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80,000-year-old Beads Shed Light on Early Culture

Heather Whipps

Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.comMon Jun 18, 8:50 AM ET

Even the very first modern humans may have spruced themselves up with beaded bling.

Twelve shell beads discovered in a cave in eastern Morocco have been dated at more than 80,000 years old, making them one of the earliest examples of human culture. The beads are colored with red ochre and show signs of being strung together.

Similar beads have been found in other parts of Africa and the Middle East, suggesting the first Homo sapiens literally carried their penchant for baubles with them as they populated the world.

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80,000-year-old Beads Shed Light on Early Culture