Stay Tuned-In to JBI for the New Year!

Did Santa forget a few things on your list? Overwhelmed by the amount of socks you got this holiday? Come visit any of our four locations and treat yourself to great sales on semi-precious strands, pearls, blown glass pendants, tools, sterling silver, and all other items that you didn't find under the tree! Already looking forward to the new year? Join our mail list by e-mailing us at justbeaditstaff@comcast.net with "send me mail!" in the subject line and we will keep you posted on all the new and exciting events, classes and promotions we are starting with the coming of the new year! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from all of us at Just Bead It!

FREE Earrings with Purchase of Two Holiday Kits!!!

In the midst of all of your holiday gift-giving, Just Bead It is giving YOU a gift to thank you for shopping with us! For a limited time only, receive a FREE pair of earrings when you buy any two of our holiday kits. Choose from the Lucky Christmas Spider, Snowflakes, or Swarovski Christmas Tree Earrings. Each kit makes several items, giving you more bang for your buck during a hectic and expensive holiday season! Nothing says "happy holidays" like a hand-crafted gift, so show all the special people on your list how much you care with great ornaments and jewelry, all made by you! Click on the link below to purchase your holiday kits and get your FREE earrings in time to wear for the holidays.
http://justbeadit.net/kit_1/kit_display.asp?CatID=93

***Free pair of earrings varies in color and style***

Holiday Season in Full Swing at JBI!

After an excellent day in New York City seeing the Rockettes' Christmas Spectacular, all of us here at JBI decided to spread our holiday spirit by extending our Black Friday Sale taking place at all three of our New Jersey locations. EVERYTHING in the store is 20-75% off! Come in and check out great deals on pre-made jewelry, as well as all the fixins to make your own holiday gifts. Stuck in a holiday rut and not sure what to give? You can't go wrong with our $3 ornaments, or take home a Lucky Christmas Spider or Snowflake Kit (finished product pictured at right) to make your own presents - they are by far the most affordable way to gift!

Best Sales in JBI History!

Start your holiday shopping off at the right store by visiting any of our three New Jersey locations! On Black Friday Just Bead It in North Beach Haven, Surf City, and Stone Harbor, NJ is launching the BIGGEST and BEST sale in JBI history! Featuring sales from 20-75% off everything in the store, Just Bead It is the perfect place to find pre-made jewelry or create your own unique for everyone on your shopping list! Hurry in and check out our large collection of tools, semi-precious strands, glass pendants, and sterling silver. Be sure to ask about the Legend of the Lucky Christmas Spider (a JBI Holiday Favorite!) and our $3 Holiday Ornaments. Happy Holidays and Happy shopping!

Get In the Holiday Spirit with Just Bead It!

There's no better way to get into the holiday spirit in style than with Just Bead It's NEW Christmas Tree Earrings! Sparkling yet simple, these earrings are the best way to show your excitement for the holidays. They are also a great gift for teachers, friends, and family members to let them know how special they are this season! Christmas Tree Earrings are available pre-made, or all of the components can be purchased in a kit so you can make them yourself at home. Want to make the earrings yourself but not sure that you'll get the hang of it? Check out our workshop schedule and sign up to take the class, where one of our experienced beaders can help. Follow the link below to view our Christmas Tree Earring kits, along with the rest of our online store!

http://justbeadit.net/kit_1/kit.asp

Add Just Bead It as a Friend on Facebook!

Always searching for new beading and jewelry trends and friends to share them with, Just Bead It has its own Facebook page! Come check us out on the most popular social network on the internet, and stay up-to-date on awesome sales, new workshops, and local events that Just Bead It and staff participate in! Follow the link below, and be sure to visit our page for Just Bead It, Vermont, too!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Beach-Haven-NJ/Just-Bead-It/68420833372

Just Carve It at Just Bead It, Vermont!

Just Bead It, Vermont is showing their spooky spirit with their first Just Carve It! event. From 12pm - 5pm on Saturday October 31, 2009, join JBI staff and the local Wilmington, VT community for fun, refreshments, and awesome prizes. All pumpkins are $3, and smaller pumpkins are available for younger children to paint. Just Bead It is all set up for this exciting event! Carving in costume is greatly accepted, and all contestants are welcome to join JBI and neighbors celebrate a great Halloween afternoon.

October News from Just Bead It

Fall is here, and that means exciting happenings at Just Bead It! We started off the month of October with Chowderfest Weekend, a celebration of good eats, a great community, and of course amazing sales!

Along with Chowderfest comes the Long Beach Island Scarecrow Contest. Bringing the theme of Breast Cancer Awareness to the front of all of our stores, Just Bead It has built "Pink Lady" scarecrows dressed in pink ribbon attire. To help support the cause, we have created a line of pink themed jewelry. For every piece sold, Just Bead It will donate 20% of the proceeds to the Susan G. Komen foundation. Take a trip down to LBI and vote for your favorite bead store's scarecrow by clicking on the link below!

http://www.visitlbiregion.com/includes/cms/pages/preview.cfm?pagekey=C91FC919-1D09-64AF-61482384B3D68FFE

As the weather cools down, don't forget that Just Bead It is a great place to start your holiday shopping! For a limited time only, all of our pre-made jewelry is 20% off. Check out the latest trends in hand crafted jewelry, and be sure to ask about our new workshops being offered at our North Beach Haven location.

http://www.fuession.com/bracelets.html

Also new for the fall season is our "Bead Happy Hour" taking place every Thursday from 4-6pm. Come in and learn a new beading technique, all while relaxing with a glass of wine! Our staff will be there to help you along the way and start your weekend a little early. Call any of our three New Jersey locations for more information.

http://www.fuession.com/beadhappyhournew.html

Best of the Shore Contest

Just Bead It is in the running for MyFOXPhilly's Best of the Shore in Women's Accessories this year! We are excited about this opportunity to be listed on the Best of the Shore Hot List.

We would appreciate your help in spreading the word and voting for us! Here's the link: http://myfoxphilly.cityvoter.com/just-bead-it/biz/85237.

Bead Happy!

The Lighthouse International Film Festival on LBI

The Lighthouse International Film Festival will be held on Long Beach Island from June 4 - June 7. It is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films and fostering the next generation of filmmakers. The festival offers four days of films, panels, Q&A's, networking, parties and surfing, and draws some of the industry's top film critics, producers and distributors. The festival also seeks to serve the community by presenting unique programs that inspire, engage and challenge a diverse audience through the art of film.

There are other special events being held over the long weekend. You can learn more at: http://www.lighthousefilmfestival.org/index.html

FREE Workshop: Peyote Wave Pendant

Join us this Thursday, 5/21 at 1pm to learn the Peyote Wave Pendant! We will teach you the peyote stitch and then show you how to increase the stitches to create this unique wave. You will receive a 20% discount on any additional purchases that day!

Call to reserve your spot. 609-492-2323.

1305 Long Beach Blvd., North Beach Haven, NJ

Vermont JBI Pics

Here are some pics of us setting up our Vermont store:

You can view more VT pics on our Facebook or Myspace Page.

Just search: Just Bead It.

JBI is heading to Vermont!

Big news! Just Bead It is in the process of opening a new store in Wilimington, Vermont! We are all very excited and already started the process of collecting inventory from our stores in LBI and Stone Harbor.

We are hoping to be up and running within a couple months. The store will be open all year round, so if you are coming home from a day at the slopes or looking for something fun to do during the "off-season", stop on by and create your own unique jewelry!

Typestries is designing the store's sign, here is a sneek peak of their work:

Thanks to all of our GUCU Volunteers & Sponsors!

We want to thank all the volunteers who came out on April 25 for LBI Business Alliance's 1st Annual Green Up Clean Up (GUCU). The event was a great success, not only in picking up the trash around the island, but also in creating awareness to the environmental issues facing the island. We picked up over a ton of trash, and we can’t tell you how many cigarette butts were in there!

We also want to thank some people for their involvement: Tim from Timster for volunteering his time and services in picking up all of our trash bags and taking them to the landfill, Rick from Typestries for creating and printing all of the re-usable signs for the event, John from Nardi’s for purchasing the full-page add in the Sandpaper, Dark Star Café for the lunches, Andrea from Active Imprints for her design on the back of the t-shirts, Coastal Printing for the posters, Mr. Milton for his generous donation, Long Beach Township for hosting the beach bonfire, and the Beach Haven Fire Department for keeping us safe at the bonfire, Surflight Theatre for donating trash bags and gloves, all of the Municipalities on the Island for also donating trash bags and gloves, and Christine for helping with all of the deliveries to our crab traps.

Much thanks to the JBI girls: Tanya, Andi, Gabby, Brittany, Rebecca, Karen, Kerri, Ashley, and Cassie for tie-dying 300 awesome t-shirts and making 600 bracelets!

Here are some photos from Saturday:

Check Out Our Tie Dying Video!

Tie-Dying at Just Bead It for GUCU!

This week the girls at Just Bead It were busy tie dying GUCU t-shirts for Saturday. Volunteers who pre-registered for the event would be receiving these Free Limited Edition t-shirts in celebration of LBI BA's 1st Annual GUCU.

Step 1: Rubber band t-shirts...all 300 of them! Actually went pretty fast. We had fun figuring out different ways to rubber band them to make different tie dying effects.

Step 2: Dying the t-shirts in Green and Blue dye. We made sure to wear gloves so our hands didn't get dyed...except for Stacey...she went for the "green look" and proud of it!

Step 3: Let t-shirts soak in the dye overnight. We ended up dying half the t-shirts on Tuesday and the other half on Wednesday because we were running out of room!

Step 4: Rinse out t-shirts and take home to dry.

This way our volunteers don't turn green or blue on Saturday!

Step 5: The Finished Product!

GUCU Bonfire!

A GUCU Bonfire will be held on Saturday, April 25 from 8pm til 9:30pm at the Long Beach Township Municipal beach at 68th Street in Brant Beach as a "Thank You" to all of the GUCU volunteers for all of their hard work!

If you want to participate in LBI Business Alliance's 1st Annual Green Up Clean Up (GUCU), please email justbeadit@comcast.net or call 609-492-2323 to receive additional information and pre-register. You can also visit GUCULBI.com.

We hope to see you there!

We are now on Twitter!

We have decided to join the Twitter community! Check us out at http://www.twitter.com/just_bead_it. We will be posting updates on events, workshops, new trends, and much more!

Green Up Clean Up (GUCU) Update

LBI Business Alliance's First Annual Green Up Clean Up (GUCU) is approaching fast! Only 3 weeks away, we are busy preparing for this great "green" event!

The girls at Just Bead It are hard at work beading "GUCU" bracelets for all the volunteers to wear. These bracelets will entitle them for promotions/discounts at participating LBI businesses! Just Bead It will be giving away FREE Pair of Earrings!

Volunteers also have the chance to win 1 of 100 Free lunches at Dark Star Cafe and the first 100 individuals to pre-register for GUCU will receive a Free Limited Edition "1st Annual GUCU" t-shirt, hand tie-dyed by Just Bead It (we will be posting photos soon!).

You can pre-register by emailing us at justbeadit@comcast.net or calling 609-492-2323.

In addition, we just got some GUCU signs made up (much thanks to everyone at Typestries!) So look out for these on LBI!

We have also joined the Facebook community! Just search "LBI Green Up Clean Up." We will be providing updates on that as well as our blog.

April FREE Workshops

On Thursday, April 2 at 1pm, we will be teaching how to design and handcraft a Beaded Necklace for your spring and summer attire by using seed and tube beads along with a howlite pendant. You will also learn how to finish the necklace with a technique called crimping. Great for beginners!

On Thursday, April 16 at 1pm, we will be teaching you how to handcraft a Howlite Pendant Necklace. You will learn how to wire-wrap a bead on a head pin so it can be worn as a pendant on cording. A great introduction into wire-wrapping.

Wedding Road Show on Long Beach Island

Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009

Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Just Bead It is participating in The Wedding Road Show, which is a day devoted to introducing brides and grooms-to-be and their families to the distinctive wedding destination of the Long Beach Island Region. Spend the day exploring the area's many wedding venues, ceremony sites, shops and services while earning chances to WIN prizes, sample menus and consult with local wedding specialists along the way.

Just Bead It will be offering Free Bridal Consultations and raffling off a prize. More details to follow.

You can learn more about this event at: http://www.njwedding.com/maillist/contestsponsors.cfm

LBI Business Alliance's First Annual Green Up Clean Up

Join us for LBIBA's First Annual Green Up Clean Up (GUCU) event! On April 25 from 9am - 12pm team up with your neighbors and clean up the streets of Long Beach Island!

If you would like to participate or learn more about the event, please contact us at justbeaditstaff@comcast.net or 609-492-BEAD (2323).

March FREE Workshops

On Thursday, March 5 at 1pm, we will be teaching how to handcraft a Beaded Cross with the right angle weave technique, czech glass beads, and illusion cord. This is a workshop for intermediate to advanced beaders. After taking this free workshop, you will be able to take our more advanced right angle weave classes: Swarovski Purse and Swarovski Heart!

On Thursday, March 19 at 1pm, we will be teaching how to design and handcraft a Beaded Rosary with druk beads and seed beads. You will learn the correct rosary pattern and how to properly attach the beads to the pieta. This is a great class to practice your beading and crimping skills!

Please call us to reserve your seat, space is limited. 609-492-BEAD (2323).

Chocolate Week: Free Wire Working Workshop

On Thursday, Feb. 10, Just Bead It had its first Chocolate Week event: Free Wire Working Workshop. It was a great turn out with ladies of all ages eager to learn wire working.





As they learned about the different tools and supplies, they enjoyed a cup of hot cocoa and homemade chocolate chip cookies.

During the workshop, they learned how to make wrapped loops and practiced a couple times on plated wire before they began designing their earrings. They chose from an assortment of glass heart beads and size 6/0 beads, and quickly put their new wire working skills to the test.

They were excited to wear their new pair of earrings and some even planned to give them as gifts. Afterwards, they decided to do some shopping to pick up supplies for their new hobby with a 20% discount!

All of the ladies enjoyed themselves and some signed up for our next Free Workshop on Thursday, Feb, 19 (Beaded Purse).

Wedding Jewelry & Favors

Planning a wedding this year? Can't think of that perfect accessory for your perfect day? Don't know what to give your guests as favors for your bridal shower or wedding? Just Bead It

has the answers!

We will assist you in selecting, designing, and creating your bridal jewelry and favors. We will also provide guidance and ideas on creative jewelry designs for your bridal party and one-of-a-kind wedding favors for your guests and bridal party.

Want to plan an activity for your bridesmaids? How about a Beading Workshop Party! Have your bridal party come in and either make their own bridal jewelry or learn a new hobby. A great way to have your friends and family join together to start celebrating your Big Day!

Call Tanya today to schedule your Free Bridal Consultation or Beading Workshop Party. 609-492-BEAD (2323).