We have no choice but to raise prices across the board on our wholesale silver jewelry.

If any of you have been following silver pricing over the past year, you’ll have found that silver, like gold has risen steadily in value — I guess the precious metals are a safe bet during times of economic instability.

Long story short, silver itself has doubled in value (or more) since this time last year — head over to kitco.com for the silver history charts if you need more details.

We’re not doubling prices but it’s a fairly steep increase all the same — as much as 20% on certain items.

Like everyone, we’re doing our best to keep prices down.

To see all of our wholesale silver jewelry, click here:

And here are the categories:

• Silver Jewelry – Bracelets…
• Silver Jewelry – Brooch…
• Silver Jewelry – Cellphone, Jeans Dangle…
• Silver Jewelry – Children…
• Silver Jewelry – Earrings…
• Silver Jewelry – Necklaces…
• Silver Jewelry – Pendants…
• Silver Jewelry – Rings…
• Silver Jewelry – Sets…
• Silver Jewelry – Star Signs…

Usually, at this point, We  say, “Enjoy” but it doesn’t seem right today.

Regards,

Sean & Athina

We’ve finally organized, itemized and inventorized our jewelry stock and we invite you to take a look at everything that’s in stock and available to ship at the drop of a woven sun hat.

Prices are wholesale and there are no minimums for  Beads Bali customers.

Click the image below or copy and paste this link into your browser address window:

http://www.beads-bali.com/stock/

Enjoy,

Athina

We do have some collection of pendants, broches and earrings with different insert from Abalone or Pawe Shell, Mother of pearl or semi precious stone like Garnet, Topaz, Peridot etc.

Here are some pictures of the collection :

Brooches

You can find both items on our Silver Jewellry Brooches or clik here : http://www.beads-bali.com/category.php?mastercategory=Silver%20Jewelry&category=%20%20Brooch

Earrings :

You can find those items on our Silver Jeweller Earrings or click here : http://www.beads-bali.com/category.php?mastercategory=Silver%20Jewelry&category=%20%20Earrings

All our Silver Jewellry are handmade here in Bali, meaning any custome order are welcome that’a also mean any of you who would like to transform your favorite animals to be beautiful jewellery, will be happy to be part of it.

Athina

Beads-Bali

TO all friends and associates

We wish you a Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year 2010

Hope you have a wonderful holiday

and blessing new year

From :

Happy New Year: we hope you had a great holiday season.

We probably told you late last year about the birth of our daughter Sophie but if you missed that little bit of news and you have the time, please pop over to Sophie’s website to see the newest, most beautiful jewel in our collection.

http://www.sophiehynes.com

Now, Sophie is nearly 4 months old and we are slowly getting back to thinking about business.

With that in mind, we’ve started production on two new categories: Star Signs and Kids’ Jewellery — both lines will focus on pendants & earrings.

We hope to have moved out of the sample stage and into production around mid-February — we will keep you posted. And, in the meantime, if you have any ideas of your own, now is the time to tell us.

Earlier this week, we added more Silver Jewellery Sets, Pendants, Earrings, Bracelets & Rings.

If you’re in the UK, please go to: http://uk.beads-bali.com/search_results.php?search=new

If you’re in the USA or anywhere else in the world , please go to: http://www.beads-bali.com/search_results.php?search=new

And here are some pictures of our new products:

Finally, we know that 2008 was a tough year all around in terms of sales and the economy but we feel positive about 2009 and we’re ready to work harder and smarter.

Regards (& Happy New Year),

Sophie, Athina & Sophie’s Dad (Best Dad in the Universe)

To all our friends and associates,

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Athina, Sean & Sophie Hynes — All Indonesia Export & Beads-Bali Team

We had a wonderful year last year, thank you very much, but now’s the time to focus on the new year…

…we’ve started with a very slight re-design of our website.

First thing you’ll notice is that we’ve reorganised our products and info pages into a handy drop down menu that you’ll find at the top of every page.

Secondly and possibly more importantly, we’ve changed the way our shopping cart works — now when you hit “continue shopping”, you’ll find yourself returning to the page you’ve just left… no more banging the keyboard in anger because you’ve been dumped back at the main page.

Thirdly, we’ve added a search facility — you can search by description, code or product type — one example would be a search for “black shell” (you don’t need to type the quote marks when you’re searching) will return every earring, necklace, pendant with black shell. Click here to see an example.

Hope you enjoy the improvements.

The next step will be new products — we’re expecting to add a hundred or so new items to the catalogue over the next week — don’t miss them.

Enjoy.

Athina

Check out the new shop by going to:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Beads-Bali-Silver-Jewellery

Enjoy,

Athina & Sean

The basics — all of the items in our Silver ranges (Pendants, Rings, Bracelets and so on) are .925 sterling silver, handcrafted here in Bali. No exceptions.

Red Coral

One of more popular lines, a number of clients have worried that perhaps we’re using coral mined from the reef — not so; all of the coral we use is farmed or ‘cultured’ coral from shell farms in Madura (a coastal area on the island of Java).

Unprocessed coral, by the way, has a mat (or non-shiny) finish. The coral is finished and polished with wax  after it’s cut to shape for its setting.

Fresh Water Pearl

Our pearls are also cultured from pearl farms in Lombok an island nearby to Bali.

Pricing on pearl tends to depend on the quality, size, shape and color — a large, symetrical, natural color pearl is usually the most expensive.

We try for a good balance — cost-effective pearls for export quality pieces.

Mother of Pearl

Most of our Mother of Pearl pieces are predominantly white with touches of woody brown, dark brown (chocolate) and black.

As with the coral, the Mother of Pearl is a cultured item — grown in the same area (Madura).

Sometimes, we craft the silver to suit the natural shape of the Mother of Pearl — alternatively, we cut and shape it to fit the setting.

You’ll also find Mother of Pearl in our fashion accessories — necklaces.

Shell

Our other shell settings are also cultured or farmed in Maduras.

Shell pieces tend to be very popular — they have their own similar but unique patterns and strengths — excellent for settings across sets or ranges of sliver items (the ring on your right matches with a pendant and earrings — the pattern is natural, distinctive (known as Tiger Shell) but close enough to match with others

Abalone or Pawe Shell

This is the only type of shell we need to import — Pawe is cultured in New Zealand and imported to Bali.

Abalone shells always have holes — which we seal with colored wax — and have great texture — they’re never flat and never the same. Meaning, when you order a Pawe shell piece, we can almost guarantee the shell will not look exactly like the photo… better of course.

Turquoise

We typically use two different kinds of turquoise: stone and turquoise powder. They are fairly easy to tell apart.

The piece on the left is naturally shaped stone (rounded, 3-dimensional). It can be cut, polished and shaped but still retains the rounded character of a natural stone piece.

The turquoise powder (picture on the right), is flat and can be pressed into fitting any shape of pendant or setting.

Gemstones

We use many different of gemstone like Druze, Peridot, Black Onyx, Ametyst, Green Quartz, Zircon, Garnet, Blue Topaz etc.

The art of working with gemstones is simply to fit or marry them to the silver… each piece tends to reflect the value of the stone which like silver or gold, has an international market value.

That’s all for tonight but if you have any questions about any materials, shells or stones or any of our processes or methods, feel free to ask — we’re happy to answer your questions.

Athina