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July 2010 shopping list. This is stock that is on its way from the suppliers and it will arrive sometime in September. 

Glassbeads

The chinese roundel beads from 4-10 mm in size in the most exquisite range. I bought a lot. These are proving to be some of our best sellers. I also brought round beads in glass. 

Gemstone beads. 

• There is a host of new agate beads from Madagascar. Banded beads in soft colours up to 18 mm in size. You will love these. Stacks of great coloured lapis lazuli at a steal. Blue howlite in chunks and buttons. Quartz in facet rounds. Tumbled citrines in a very yellow crystal. Garnets in 5 and 6 mm and facceted strings.

• Green garnet in good clean greens. I struggle to get good clean greens. I do not like to much black in the green garnet. 

• Hematite in 3, 6 and 8 mm. These will be selling for a steal. They are so inexpensive. 

• Howlites in different sizes. 

• Mookaite in soft browns

• Great large moonstone rounds in larger sizes. Prices are coming down now. There is a fair amount of blues in the moonstone. 

• Black onyx in all sizes. 4,6, 8 10, 12. Roundels. I bought a lot of black onyx. Black onyx is so versatile. You can use them anywhere. I even got some banded onyx. You will make some designers jewellery with this.

• I got some seraphinte again. I love the shiny silver bits in the beads. This is what makes gemstones so special. 

• Snowflake obsidian in superb round beads

• Sodalite in good blues. 

• Zebra stone beads proved to be very difficult to find but I hunted down some fine beads in this designers stone. 

• Tourmaline and tourmaline coloured quartz. This last is so well done. The colours are vibrant. The larger sizes gets to be a bit garish so I stuck to the smaller sizes. 

• Kyanite

• Amazonite

• Pietersite beads in 10 mm. This is going to be great. 

• Sugilite cabachons in silver. 

• Blue lace in large round beads

• Morganite

• Amethyst in 8 and 10 mm

• Apatite

• Aventurine

• Carnelian

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Shell strings

I have a great surprise. I managed to hunt down the inexpensive round shell beads. This will not be in the shop long. We bought about 6-7 boxes of these in all the colours. 

Coral 

Coral chunks, coral chips and coral beads. All sizes at a very good price. This supplier ticked me off because he was trying to cheat me at first but I believe I got the better of him. I managed to negotiate the best price. I have about 4 boxes of coral coming. It will be a feat of coral. There are a lot of chunky coral that you can use to make great focus jewellery.

Pearls

I bought more pearls than I usually do. There are pearls in all shapes and sizes. I got small sead pearls and small ovals, thee are roundels in the best quality you will get anywhere. I got bigger round whites. Some are circled. I also bought some coloured pearls. I invested in some funky coloured pearls. This is brand new and I do not think there is anybody else in South Africa who will have this in their inventory. I also bought black pearls with half drilled holes for earrrings. I hope to increase this range in the future.

925 Jewellery

Pendants, earrings and rings in 925 silver with delicate marcasite designs. 

Gemstone bullet points 

You will love these new points, they are chunky with a great silver cap on the side. I have 14 different stones. There must be over 700 pieces. Then we have cabbed the bullets as well. I then have new keyrings with a new design at an absolute steal. These will be very popular for resale.

Clasps 

I then stocked up on the clasps with gemstone cabachones and shell flowers. They are always very popular and I managed to negotiate an even better price on these. 

Shellbearls 

Shellpearls in all colous and sizes. We concentrated on the oval shapes in many new colour combinations. They will be well received. 

Tigerstail

I bought 14 colours in a thickness of 0.5 and 0.38. I think I also bought some thicker tigerstail in silver for chunky beads. Let me tell you something about the tigerstail. I discovered that none of the rolls have 100 meters on them as the tags say. So to be safe we say that there is only 50 meters on a roll. But the rolls themsevels are labelled as 100 meters. Each roll have around 70 meters.

Birthstone earrings

925 earrings in all the different birtstone months. 

Hotfix. 

Swarovski hotfix. The swarovski hotfix is more expensive but then they are swarovski precision cut with superior glue. These will be listed soon. What are hotfix. They are glassbeads in round brilliant cut that are ironned on clothing. They make designers pieces from ordinary clothing.

Findings

I stocked up on most findings such as 

• Roundels in all sizes and colours

• Earring hoops

• Headpins

• Bails

• Bowtie links in metal net

• Jumprings

• Chain

• Chain with clasp

• Crimps

• End cap for strings

• Angel wings

• Butterfly beads

• Daisy roundels

• Silver S clasps

• Rose clasps

• Key chain clasps

• Barrel screw in clasp

• Signoretti clasps

• Bar and toggle clasps

• Great new charms in cloisonne

• Celtic tribal charms

• Celphone slings

• Bead caps in different sizes. 

• Horse shoe protectors

• Headpin with rhinestones

  As you can see there is a lot to look forward to. The new stock will be here in September.