We're packed and ready to go to the airport to begin our next adventure - The 2012 Perlen Poesie bead show in Hamburg, Germany. This will be our secong year attending the show, with 3mm and 4mm firepolish, pinch beads, leaves and flowers, buttons and 13/0 charlottes. We will also be repping Unicorne beads, which we did last year as well.
J-Me will be teaching for the first time at the show, her button bracelet with kits for sale as well. Not only that, but she will be a runway model during the show displaying fabulous necklaces that are on display for the show contest.
Guy will be selling beads at the booth.... bringing in the money!!
Prior to the show we will be bombing around Jablonec nad Nisou and the surrounding mountains buying beads and buttons, then driving all the way to Neugablonz in Bavaria to see a factory that we used to buy from in the 1990's which is closing its doors forever. The owner has been trying with our help to sell the contents of the factory(beads, raw glass, machinery, tools, molds) for about a year with no sucess. Her ancestor began making beads in 1776 as a lampworker and it grew into a large factory. According to a German freind of ours who has seen it, the attic is full of vintage beads covered in dust. I can't wait. The owner is giving us beads to sell on consignment at the Perlen Poesie show, which we will pick up while at her house, then we will drive to Hamburg to set up the show.
Finally. after the show we will drive back to Prague and fly home.
J-Me and Guy are the owners of Wild Things Beads, a small family run import business specializing in Czech glass beads and buttons and finding the unusual to bring to their warehouse. They also run working bead tours to Jablonec and Hong Kong. Their warehouse is located deep in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California, and can be reached by phone at (530)743 1339 or on the web at www.wildthingsbeads.com. They are also open by appointment at their warehouse.
