11 years this December at the current count — check out the creation date in red below.

Domain Name: INDONESIAEXPORT.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Status: ACTIVE
EPP Status: ok
Updated Date: 21-Sep-2006
Creation Date: 22-Dec-1995
Expiration Date: 21-Dec-2006

My, how time flies when you’re having fun.

Interesting though, a few months ago, I stumbled across a news article in Wired, I think, talking about the web archive [http://web.archive.org] where you could see old versions of Yahoo and the like.

Natch, I didn’t think little old us would turn up on their pages but there we were — at least going back to 1997 — interested, check it out at:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.indonesiaexport.com

We haven’t changed all that much — comes down to a couple of very basic rules: Keep it simple (Stupid!) and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Sean

We’re Beads Bali (well, you already know that).

The company, at this time, is made up of myself (Sean), my wife Athina and a group of local silver smiths and bead makers. There is also my wife’s puppy, Jolie, and my black lab, Mojo.

We live here in Bali, fairly close to the beach (I can see it from my window as I type this).

I’m fairly new to the beading business but I’ve been working professionally in Bali for the last ten years (or more) exporting handicrafts and furniture around the world with Indonesia Export.

My background is London-Irish (ethnic, not the rugby team although I did manage a short stint there while I was a kid).

Athina is originally from Solo on the island of Java – that’s very close to the recent earthquake and volcano if you caught any of that on the news.

The idea for making a specialist department to handle bead supplies and exports out of Bali was Athina’s – she believes that although the market is very competitive, there are actually only a few decent, ethical suppliers out there doing business and even less of those are based here on Bali with the resources that we have.

Athina is the one to talk to about new designs, sourcing beads and all of the creative, hard work. She is also the only member on the team with any concept of taste or fashion. Really.

I deal mostly with communication, logistics and being mean to people when they show up at our warehouse with lousy products. I do this very well.

You could say that Athina walks softly while I carry the big stick.

If you want to know any personal information about us, you can check out are blogs:

http://www.katakoe.com — Athina’s website — partly in English.

http://www.bali-belly.com — my website.

Or, you could email us at info@beads-bali.com