New Washi Pattern List for 2012

We hope everyone has had a great start to their 2012! Here is the new Washi Pattern List for 2012 and also  buying tips and manufacturing aspects to remember when ordering bulk amounts of beads.  We hope this helps our customers budget and build their inventories more quickly.  These files are pdf files and are ready to save or print for your files.

Thanks to all who have ordered through us over the years and we hope to do business with you again in 2012!

New Washi Pattern List for 2012

Buying Tips and Manufacturing Capacity

Happy New Year and Happy Beading Everybody!

New Large-holed Washi Beads

Introducing large-holed Washi Beads made exclusively by Sheri Marker, Embassybeads to add on to your customizeable Pandora/Biagi/Troll necklaces and bracelets.  The hole size is 4.8mm and should be able to fit these popular styles.  They are completely handcrafted: Bead holes are hand-drilled to the proper dimensions, the sterling silver and stainless steel inserts are flared by hand, the washi paper is applied by hand using the traditional picket-fence method requiring at least 30 miniscule cuts in order to fit onto the bead without distorting the beautiful Japanese Washi patterns, each bead is burnished by hand to smooth out and blend the cuts, and the 8 coats of water-based polyurethane finish are applied by hand with paint brush to protect the bead for heavy wear.

Here are the first 4 patterns available, many more to come in 2012.  Enjoy and keep an eye out on Ebay (ID: Embassydesigns) for these beautiful beads!  Prices are 3 beads for $15 on Ebay!  We aim to keep high quality handcrafted artisan beads affordable for everyone!

Temporary Closure to New Orders, August/September

Embassybeads will be temporarily closed to taking new orders for all of August and most of September while we complete our current backorder list, prepare for our various upcoming Autumn Craft Fairs and Bead Show engagements, and also allow the owner time to complete and recover from five more weeks of Rituxan/Chlorambucil chemo treatments.  If you have already placed your order earlier in the summer, your order is in our backorder list and will be attended to during these two months.  Although we hate to temporarily rein back new sales, we are currently maxed out in terms of our manufacturing ability based on labor time and manufacturing space.  We will recommence taking on new orders the end of September on a limited basis dependent on the owner's rate of recovery and rate of completion of our large backorders.

Thank-you for all your business and reorders... most of all, thanks for helping our business grow by leaps and bounds!  Hope to see you all at the Fall fairs and boutiques this year, and we hope you enjoy the remainder of your summer.  Stay cool and stay safe!

Happy Beading Everybody!

~ Sheri and the Embassybeads Bead Team       

Origami Washi Fan Earrings Now Available!

New Origami Washi Fan Earrings now available on the Embassy Designs Ebay Storefront!

Midnight Cherry Blossom Washi Pattern with Surgical Steel Fish-hooks and Sterling Silver Jump Ring Chain and Wire

Blue Blossom Matrix Washi Pattern with Surgical Steel Fish-hooks and Sterling Silver Jump Ring Chain and Wire

Cherry Blossom Washi Pattern with Hypoallergenic Ball post and Large friction nuts, and Sterling Silver Jump Ring Chain and wire.

Be sure to check out these charming new earrings on the Ebay storefront!

Happy Beading Everybody!

New Products

Sakura Sterling Silver Washi Bead Bracelet

Night Orchid Sterling Silver Washi Bead Bracelet

Graduated Washi Bead Necklace in Navy Plum Blossom Washi with Lapis Chips

The Holidays are just around the corner--- are you ready?! These are photos of new Embassy Bead jewelry products that will be available for purchase via Ebay, Etsy, and in person at near- future Holiday craft boutiques.

The Sterling Silver and Washi Bead Bracelets are also available with magnetic clasps rather than toggle/lobster clasps~ whichever you prefer!

The Graduated Washi Bead Necklaces will also be available in other Washi Patterns so be sure to check the storefront often this Holiday season for a pattern that strikes your fancy!

Be sure to checkout other new loose washi bead and pendant products at the Ebay storefront: Embassy Bead Designs.

Hope you enjoyed the pics and hope they got your creative juices flowing.

Happy Beading Everybody!

New Japanese Vintage Prints Pendants!

Top: Small Oval Japanese Vintage Prints.... will be put to auction as a trio set. The following larger Oval Japanese Vintage Prints Pendants will be put to auction as singles~ starting bids for the larger pendants will be $3.25.




There will also be other trio and doublet sets of Round and Square Glass Washi Pendants, and beautiful Marbled Momi Paper Glass Pendants. Also, Washi Beads in sizes 8mm, 10mm, 12mm, 14mm, and 16mm will be offered in a variety of patterns.

Be sure to check out the Embassy Beads Ebay Storefront this month for something new and different! Enjoy and Happy Beading Everybody!

~Sheri, Embassy Beads!

New Shipping Rates Starting March 30th, 2010

Starting March 30th, 2010 on all Ebay transactions Embassy Beads will begin using the United States Postal Service's Flat Rate packaging and shipping rates in support of the USPS and to make calculating shipping easier for our Ebayers.

For Ebay transactions, there will be a flat rate of $4.95 for Priority Mail Shipping in a small flat rate box (Dimensions: 5-3/8" x 8-5/8" x 1-5/8", up to 3.9lbs)- to ship single Ebay Items or combined Ebay Items (up to 6 Ebay Items can fit in the small flat rate box).

For larger off-Ebay orders, Embassy Beads will still use Priority Mail Shipping however, they may not be in a Flat Rate box (sometimes it's more cost-effective for the customer for the items not to be sent in a Flat Rate box). Actual Priority Mail shipping costs will be applied to the order invoice.

Beyond that, new auction listings will be posted in the months ahead of several lots of beads, new glass pendants (Look for the new Japanese Woodblock Print Glass Pendants), and Special Reserve Washi Beads and Pendants (these are beads and pendants made from very limited quantities of beautiful Washi Patterns I've found over the winter months).

Hope you enjoy perusing the new items and Happy Beading Everybody!

~Sheri, Embassybeads