• Bead Slogans

    Your faithful Bead Fairies got tired of signing off on their e-mail to one another with proper salutations such as Regards, or Sincerely. As Bead Fairy imaginations are somewhat tilted, the salutations took on a fairy-like and occasionally militant element of fun. One of us waxes poetic from time to time, although it does tend to get under the fingernails. The other one thought it would be fun to show off our silliness in hopes that others might be inspired to do likewise. (Which they have, since many of these slogans now have come from visitors to this site.) Possibly even take this a step further and flat out exploit it by indulging in the American pastime of merchandising. So a visitor might decide to lift a slogan or two, or all of them for that matter, and make, say, bumper stickers, tee-shirts, coffee mugs, or possibly even name a store from these fancies. Please be advised that all are authorized to do so without worry of the dreadful Copyright thingy visiting them in their dreams. Worse still, the Trade Mark bug. Ick.

  • Beads Beads Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
  • Beads Happen
  • Have You Hugged Your Beads Today?
  • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bead
  • A Bead is a Terrible Thing to Waste
  • Bead Long and Prosper
  • To Bead or Not to Bead. That is the Question. To Bead is the Answer, duh!
  • I Never Met A Bead I Didn't Like
  • Will Work For Beads
  • Beauty is in the Eye of the Beadholder
  • Strung Out on Beads
  • Fire Polished Beads are HOT STUFF!
  • Life is uncertain, bead NOW!
  • Don't Bead And Drive
  • Carpe Beadem
  • May the Force Bead With You
  • I *Like* Finishing Necklaces -- KNOT!
  • Make Beads Not War
  • Beaders Do It Best
  • It's Not Just a Bead; It's an Adventure
  • So Many Beads, So Little Time
  • Gone Beading
  • I Bead, Therefore I Am
  • Bead All That You Can Bead
  • I'd Rather Be Beading
  • Just Bead It!
  • Visualize World Beads
  • Beaded and Proud of It!
  • Beads to Live By
  • Blessed Beads
  • Don't Worry, Bead Happy
  • Love Me, Love My Beads
  • She Who Dies With The Most Beads Wins
  • Beads On Board (Betcha thought that horrid fad had died, didn't you? Ha!)
  • Double Your Pleasure, Buy Twice As Many Beads
  • Don't Be Beadless In Seattle
  • A bead is a marble who lost her virginity
  • I've beaded, and I can't get up! (Son Hye Schultz in Fort Worth, TX)
  • Beads, we bring good things to life. (Charlotte, fa@pottsville.infi.net)
  • I feel the need, the need to bead. (Charlotte, fa@pottsville.infi.net)
  • Happy beading to all and to all a bead nite. (Lisa, Wyvren35@aol.com)
  • Sleep tight - don't let the bead bugs bite. (Lisa, Wyvren35@aol.com)
  • Of beads and men..... Beads are the best. (Beverley, vyn@dacc.cc.il.us)
  • Bead to live. Live to bead. (Beverley, ravyn@dacc.cc.il.us)
  • And the bead goes on!!!! (Beverley, ravyn@dacc.cc.il.us)
  • We all bead to a different drummer. (Beverley, ravyn@dacc.cc.il.us)
  • When the beads come marching home. Hurrah!!!!!!(Beverley, ravyn@dacc.cc.il.us)

    The following contributed by Beverly Coffey (ravyn@jaguar.dacc.cc.il.us):

  • Beads need love too
  • Be thankful for beads
  • God may have created man. But woman created beads.
  • Beading my life away
  • A bead a day keeps insanity at bay.
  • If little Bo Peep had beads to keep instead of sheep she could have kept up with them better.
  • just for the bead of it.
  • To know me is to bead me.
  • BEADS. Don't leave home without them.
  • I sold my soul for beads.
  • Beads are forever.
  • Men may come and go but beads are forever
  • Talk to the bead because the beader isn't listening
  • SMB- Send More Beads!!!!
  • Save the beads
  • It's bead nice knowing you.
  • Bead till you can't bead no more
  • If wishes were beads.....We'd all be happy
  • Forget the alimony just pay me in beads.
  • I brake for beads
  • The few . The proud. The beaded.
  • Bead me up Scottie
  • Totally beadin' dude.
  • Have beads will travel
  • A bell is a bead with a lot to say
  • Beads are the answer. Now what's the question?
  • We wish you a beady X-mas
  • Born beader
  • Beads are a girls best friend
  • If you can dream it you can bead it
  • Beauty and the beads.

    I'm beading my kids' inheritance. (Jeannie, jedavis@gj.net)
    Beading Las Vegas! (Susan, setzer@horizon.hit.net)

    The following contributed by Katherine Graden (kgraden@mail.dancris.com):

  • Bead it sew!
  • Beading is fun-damental
  • I Know What I Wanna Bead When I Grow Up
  • Beads: Why We Can't Balance Our Checkbooks

  • All we're saying is, give beads a chance(Bluextal@aol.com)
  • My kingdom! My kingdom for a bead! (Kate Lew, Dolphin7@wow.com)
  • If a person has a bead in their hand, what do they have in their eye????(George Walters,
  • Rainbow_Lodge@super.zippo.com)
  • Beauty is in the eye of the bead holder.(George Walters, Rainbow_Lodge@super.zippo.com)
  • If you feel the need, bead!(Anonimous)
  • Too baked to bead.(Anonymous)
  • Just bead yourself and everyone will like you.(Anonymous)
  • Have bead, will travel (Louise, blade@bluesky.net.au)
  • Housework is like stringing beads with no knot on the end (Suzanne Hye, suzannehye@aol.com. read on alt.folklore.urban)
  • A bead on the needle is worth two in the rug. (Françoise Van Heusden, fvanheu@wested.org)

  • You could be a Beadworker if...

    By Charlotte, rafa@pottsville.infi.net

  • It takes you longer to take your work from the kitchen table than it does to make dinner.
  • You inspect your floors on hands and knees before you vacuum.
  • You can't have small children visit before you have a chance to save your beads and work from small, inquiring fingers.
  • You have to apologize for not attending the last civic meeting (because you HAD to finish a project)
  • You tell everyone dinner will be started in just 10 more minutes.
  • You tell your husband you will be up there in a few minutes, you just have to finish another five rows.

    By Chris, jones@ns.noahsinternet.net

  • You look at the floor at work, and the tiles remind you of peyote stitched Delicas
  • Your husband screams at least once a day, because he sat on a beading needle you lost in the couch.
  • You call the local Michaels and BEG them to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE start carrying seed beads by the hank and Delicas.
  • You hear "Oh my goodness! Where'd you get that beautiful pouch necklace?" at least 10 times a day.
  • You consider naming your cat, dog, child, etc., Delica.
  • Your co-workers refer to you as "the bead lady".

  • All I Really Bead To Know I Learned From Beading

    By Leri Jacobs, radar@tdn.com

    1. Share your beads.
    2. Go to bead fairs.
    3. Don't break your beads.
    4. Put your beads back in the right containers.
    5. Clean your glasses (so you can see your beads) .
    6. Don't steal others beads.
    7. Make amends by giving beads.
    8. Wax your string before you bead.
    9. Bead.
    10. A bright light and a magnifying glass are good for you.
    11. Live a beaded life: bead, bead, eat, sleep, bead.
    12. Bead every afternoon.

  • You Know a Bead is Ugly When...

  • you almost consider throwing it away. (Susie Molnar, smolnar@fast.net)
  • you put it in the beadbox (without second thoughts) (Gretchen Stroh)
  • you actually vacuum under your bead table without searching for it (Carolyn, car34slmo@worldnet.att.net)
  • it falls on the floor and you don't bother looking for it. (Karen Brown, katia@dreamscape.com )
  • it's still in the beadbox when you get it back (Judy Anderson, beadme@ibm.net)
  • you give it to your 4 year old to make jewelry with. ("Just like Mommy!") (Lissa McCollum, ericmc@alliance.net)
  • you can't think of anything to do with it . (Aurora Berry, auroraber@aol.com)
  • you bead over it with seed beads to make a beaded bead. (Aurora Berry, auroraber@aol.com)
  • you put it in the junk drawer (no real beader could really throw even an ugly bead away - could they???? (Aurora Berry, auroraber@aol.com)
  • you string it with Pepsi bottle caps and it still looks terrible. (Edgar Coudal, edgarc@gte.net)
  • you string it on yarn and hang it from a chair for the cat to play with! (Judy Anderson, beadme@ibm.net )
  • the bead bin is developing dust bunnies and actually enhance its quality. (Bead Street, beadstr@island.net)
  • you do inventory and still have the same number as last year (argggg) (Bead Street, beadstr@island.net)
  • you do inventory and you have MORE than last year (ugly beads and tribbles do they have anything in common?) (Bead Street, beadstr@island.net)
  • you put it in the 1/2 price bin and and it still doesn't sell. (Bead Street, beadstr@island.net)
  • you mark it at 75% off and the only customer to pick it up in 6 months asks "what could you make with this?" (Bead Street, beadstr@island.net)
  • you add it to your own collection because even ugly beads deserve a home. Don't they? (Bead Street, beadstr@island.net)
  • you put them all (color by color of course) by layers in a glass jar and make a sand painting out of them because from far away and in a cluster you might not notice how they look, and they might look better. (Sandra Lee Wollin, SLWOLLIN@worldnet.att.net)
  • and he knocks it under the bed and *doesn't* dive in after it! (jrogow@ridgecrest.ca.us) (Patsy, patsy@hiwaay.net)
  • you feel guilty for puting it in the "bead-fairy" box to send a friend. (Patsy, patsy@hiwaay.net)
  • a year later, the bead-fairy box makes it's way back to you after it has sifted thru several collections -- and the same bead is still sitting in the box! (Patsy, patsy@hiwaay.net)
  • it sits in the box labled "SCRAP MATERIALS" (to be used as lathe practice, if wood or metal, or scrap glass for lampwork). (Patsy, patsy@hiwaay.net)
  • you send a bag of them out on a revolving swap through 9 people across the country and THEY ALL COME BACK! (Jeanne, ntaglass@sonic.net)
  • you use it to make a rattle (Maven, thatjoeguy@nortexinfo.net)
  • when you throw it in the fish tank and the fish won't swim near it! (Andrea Mordoh, cmordoh@earthlink.net)
  • your even your cat won't play with it! (mommakat7@aol.com)

  • The 12 Step Program for Polymer Clay Addiction

    By SaraJane Helm, sarajanes@mdcs.com.

    1) Stop listening to people who say this is a problem. It's THEIR problem--either they are jealous, or they want something different for Christmas this year.

    2) Make LOTS of what you make---that's how you get better at it--and this is called "production line", not obsession.

    3) Remember, one person's Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is another person's Technique.

    4) Remember to thank anyone whose classes you have taken--especially if you get better at it than they are. ( this is called "inspiration" if you personalize the style-and "stealing" if you don't...so make it personal.)

    5) Release your anger--POUND that clay!

    6) Buy Wholesale--think how much you save!

    7) Don't allow yourself to be envious of the sales of others-- They are "educating the market" so that when your turn comes, fewer people will say things like "EEEWW...PLASTIC!"

    8) Apologize to people whose belongings you have covered with polymer clay---unless they like them; then make more. Tell them "you're lucky it wasn't your golf clubs--they wouldn't fit in the oven".

    9) If you have ALREADY covered the golf clubs, tell them it's ART...and some guy in New York gets $40,000 for two basketballs in an aquarium...think how much you save! (then call and tell me where you got the big oven)

    10) Start every day being glad you are creative...think how much trouble you could get into if you weren't at home with your clay.

    11) Remind your detractors that photography is MUCH more expensive as a hobby, and uses much more in the way of toxic chemicals...if you do photography also, remind them of how much more expensive it would be if you had to hire a pro. Then offer to take a picture of them holding your finished product.

    12) Give blocks of raw clay as gifts...unlike some groups, we ARE actively recruiting to swell our ranks.

  • A Thought

    By Fay, burkeb@hotkey.net.au

    I came to see what you have found
    and found you see the same as me
    Great Delight in everything
    everything you choose to see
    Of all the things in life I find it takes my time you see
    I love it more every day but less time for others
    do they get from me
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    Last Updated: 24 October 2000