Icicle Beads, September's Stone & Saint Bede

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Icicle Beads Make Stunning Jewellery
Sapphire: September's Gemstone
Use Chalcedony Instead for September
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Eight More Bead Fairs to Vist this Autumn!

Sat & Sun 19th & 20th Sept Newark Gem 'n' Bead Fair Newark Showground, Winthorpe, Notts NG24 2NY 10am to 5pm Sat 10am to 4pm Sun

Saturday 26th Sept Kentish Town MrBead Bead Show Kentish Town Community Centre Main Hall, 17 Busby Place, London NW5 2SP 11am to 4pm

Sunday 27th Sept Autumn Bead Fair Holiday Inn, Garforth Garforth, Leeds LS251LH 10am to 4pm

Saturday 3rd October Luton Bead Show 41-43 Stockwood Crescent, Luton, LU1 3SS 11am to 4pm

Sunday 4th October Beadwork & Bead Fair Uxbridge College Park Road, Uxbridge, London UB8 1NQ 10.30am to 4.30pm

Sunday 11th October Norwich Bead Show Arlington Lane, Newmarket Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 2DA 11am to 4pm

Saturday 17th October The Big Bead Show High Street, Esher, London KT10 9AJ 10am to 5pm

Sat & Sun 24th & 25th October Newton Abbot Gem 'n' Bead Fair Kingsteignton, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 3AF 10am to 5pm Sat 10am to 4pm Sun

Full list of: our 2015 UK Bead Fairs

Icicle Beads Make Stunning Jewellery

If you want your designs to stand out, use icicle beads. These are also inexpensive as each string will have many because they are top-drilled. With a little imagination they can be strung together as in the picture - and you can use just one each for earrings too.

Click the online version of this newsletter to see pictures of icicles.

Sapphire: September's Gemstone

Sapphire is the birthstone for September, and is chemically and structurally the same as ruby, an aluminum oxide. However, where rubies are only red, sapphires come in every color but red: blue, golden yellow, reddish-orange, or violet.

The most valuable sapphires have a vivid royal blue colour. Some sapphires do change their colors between blue and violet depending on the light. Sapphires are extremely durable, only diamonds are harder. Sapphires are generally cut into cushions, rounded rectangle or oval shapes.

However, fancy sapphires may be triangles, squares, marquises, pear shapes, cabochon cut, or smooth domes. Sapphire is the anniversary stone for the 5th and 45th years of marriage.

Dark blue and lilac sapphire is said to enhance ones creativity while guarding against distraction. It is also good for sexual relationships because it tends create deep bonding between people and brings loyalty.

Light blue sapphire is the inspiration stone. It helps to bring new thoughts and makes one feel excited and full.

Green sapphire brings a lucky sense to ones life for it allows things to run smoothly.

Orange works on a totally different level by not allowing you to deceive yourself. It makes you look at things in their basic form without distorting it to conform to what you want it to be. Brings true knowledge - a good stone for students, teachers, writers and researchers.

Pink sapphire allows one to surrender to another for the good of the all.

White sapphire helps you take care of yourself and to tend to your personal needs.

Yellow sapphire connects you to the total you with all of your inner knowledge. It also helps you to see what you do not know so you can look for an answer, rather than believing you already know the answer.

Sapphire's Expensive - Use Chalcedony instead for September!

Blue chalcedony can look similar to sapphire at a fraction of the cost. Although a very fine-grained variety of quartz with a waxy luster with a compact fibrous structure.

Natural chalcedony is usually grayish blue and sometimes with hints of pink, however it can be color enhanced to light blue. It is said that chalcedony was used as a sacred stone by the Native Americas, promoting stability within the ceremonial activities of the tribe.

Chalcedony is thought to augment emotional balance, vitality, stamina, endurance, kindness, charity and friendliness. It also supposedly alleviates hostilities, irritability and melancholy.

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Saint Bede

Many beaders will be surprised to hear of our saint! Saint Bede. The monk is regarded as the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon scholars. He was born in 672 AD near Durham and wrote about 40 books on theology and history.

However, as far as can be found, he never strung any beads into jewellery!

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Use NOW as offer ends Friday 11th September 2015.

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