How to Buy Beads
All beads are sold on a first-one-to-email-me-gets-them basis.
Just email me, with the name of the beads your after, and say how you would prefer to pay -
Cheque or Pay Pal, I can then do the invoice thing for you.
It's a good idea to join the mailing list, as each time I update the website, I email everyone on the list.
Please note that if paying by Cheque, the beads will be listed as 'Reserved' until the cheque clears,
'Sold' when it clears. Beads are only sent after payment has cleared.
Alternatively if you'd like to speak to a human (I can do human sometimes!)
You can phone me on 07989 472321
Afternoons only though please (1pm till 6pm) or I'll let Year 2 at school deal with the transaction 
Postage
I'm based in the UK.
All beads will be posted First Class 'Signed for' and I notify you when the beads are posted.
Overseas
I'm sorry but I can no longer sell to the USA or Canada.
I've recently renewed my insurance, and due to changes they have made
I will now no longer be covered for the United States or Canada.
To be covered it would simply cost me way to much ( 40 times what I currently pay to be precise)
I still post to Europe.
Payment from these areas is by Paypal only.
All parcels are sent First Class, Air mail and Insured.
Worldwide £0 up to £70 - £4
( we split the costs, postage out is expensive, I live on a big Island!)
Over £70 - Free
Packaging
All beads are well wrapped in bubble wrap, and then placed in a slim box, which is under the 2.5cm new limits so they will fit through your letterbox - though they do have to be 'Signed For'.
Any problems, please let me know.
Colours can and do vary from monitor to monitor, as a Jewellery designer myself, I know exactly how frustrating it can be when things/colours aren't quite what you expected them to be.
So any problems please let me know, as I really would rather refund you, and have you come back for more beads.
Honest!
Now the 'Techy glassy bit'
All my beads are annealed using a digital thermostat.
I mainly use PLOWDEN & THOMPSON rod glass,
which is the only manufacturer of Rod glass in the UK.
The only other glass I use is in small amounts of the REICHENBACH 'Raku'
and Dichroic Clear and Black and thats it!
The whole annealing process takes (after the bead has been made) over 10 hours which is about 3 times longer than other glass, but well worth it as I get different colours and reactions as the glass is, well, different!
Some folks reckon that PLOWDEN & THOMPSON glass is
'ohhh.. well too shocky' and has 'far too many compatability issues for me to be bothered with it'
Well, all I can say to that is, yes it does handle differently and yes you do have to learn what goes with what (to date I've only found 4 or 5 colours that hate each other!
There are no more colours range that are incompatable than there is with Morretti and Lausha ranges.
The main difference is that as everyone uses that glass range the 'legwork' has been done, so it's 'common knowledge' which glasses are incompatible with each other.
I've worked with P&T glass now for a number of years, kept records and know ( most) of what does and doesn't work together. Alot of it is down the the temperatures you use and how long your annealing schedules are for this glass to work, You simply have to work it out for yourself as all kilns are different what works for me may well not work for you and vice versa.
There are no 'quick' fixes with glass you just have to learn what works for you and with what.
It is all PPP Practice Practice Practice
- and if you can be at all bothered you'll get some stunning results,
if you can't - then don't blame the glass for your lack of patience/experience .
Do I sound hard here? well just put it down to the fact that I hear many people that play with glass and completely dismiss PLOWDEN & THOMPSON as being 'pants'
when only a few of them have actually bothered to put any time in with it and then have decided it's not for them, and thats fine, great even - they have made and informed decision based on what they can be bothered to do! 
But I do get frustrated when the majority play with a few sticks a couple of times - get dodgy results and then publicly blame P&T glass for their lack of skills/commitment and then advertise this as a PLOWDEN & THOMPSON glass problem and not theirs. 
It's like buying a Formula one car to drive to the shops and then slagging it off cos they burn out the clutch at the traffic lights, find it's hard to drive/park at the shops, plus theres no room for the baby seat or the shopping....
But worst of all to me, it gives PLOWDEN & THOMPSON glass a extremely unfair and detrimental reputation in the Lampworking community
- whislt being based on purely on the individuals lack of experience/patience rather than on the glass.
Right off me soapbox and back to beads, 
All my beads have been properally checked and cleaned by hand,
Dodgy ones end up in the bin, there are no marks and the ends are always tidy.
I don't sell seconds, nor do I do Commissions.
