Lucite Trumpet

D_F40 Trumpet is 31x12mm

We just brought in this line of flowers in 2010. It was one of the most exciting inventory purchases we've had since we've been open. When we saw other companies calling these VINTAGE and selling these flowers for $17.00 for 6 pieces or $9.00 for 6 pieces we decided it was time to order them in mass and give our customers a pocket-book-break?? 


These flowers are current production and are NOT Vintage and we sell them for $1.00 per piece and you can assort them, which is great because you can purchase two of every color for earrings! They make excellent gifts for your friends because who doesn't love light-weight substantial earrings? 

We have 18 standard colors in this line, including JET. The JET we carry is OPAQUE, not translucent and is permanent - it is NOT an over dye. It is actually the color of the Lucite pre-mould status. The TRUMPET is a large piece, which makes it suitable and perfect for long earrings with chain or forcing a 6-8mm crystal or round inside it. It is also gorgeous layered on necklaces and because of it's almost weightlessness - feel free to add chain, crystals and more to your design, but it would also look absolutely gorgeous dangling from your wrist on silver chain in CRYSTAL MATTE. Simple. Elegant and super light. You could even add some AB crystals for a bit of bling.


                 

At $1.00 per piece, you can't afford not to get these for your bead stash. Simply stated - it's a beading imperative.

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The Lucite Leaf

Type "Lucite Leaf Earrings" in the search box on Etsy and see a huge selection of some of the most creative/adorable earrings I've ever seen.


What are Lucite flowers without Lucite leaves to complete the look? Our first leaf (should say leaves) are the D_L79 and D_L80. Find these leaves here.

Actually an L80, in pictures you can't tell the L79 from the L80

Resembling a Black Walnut leaf and/or a slender feather, these leaves are long, have a slender profile and add a "spiky" but "elegant" element to your designs, especially with earrings. I say perfect for earrings because Lucite is lightweight and durable, so if you're looking for a long, 

Black Walnut leaf Diagram

The D_L79 is 12x28mm with a center, top hole. Perfect for hanging from the open jump ring on French Earwires. And they make a soothing "clicking" noise when you wear them. Our website shows 20 colors available.

D_L79 and D_L80 leaves give you the look of feathers!

The D_L80 is 23x11mm and an exact twin to the D_L79, has all the detailing we love about the D_L79 but almost 5mm smaller! Our website shows 6 colors available in this style.

However, we've done something different with these long Lucite lovelies, we made them into a flower! 

 With a little bezel of a Rivoli and some stitching of these leaves, a beautiful flower appears - out of leaves! We've also made rings, earrings and pendants with the same technique.

We have kits for these style rings on our website or you can just buy the leaves. Ring Kits here. Find leaves here.

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Lucite Cup Flowers

One of our designs using the D_F29 in Rose Pink

We're doing a new series on our blog - Featured Lucite products that we carry on a regular basis. As we said, we carry in most lines, 18 regular colors that are colored at the manufacturer. And as with seed beads, resin, glass - each batch run can be shades of the original color and have slight variances but are very close to the original color. 

Yellow D_F29 Earrings made by Moodyhues on Etsy - link below:
Lucite Earrings on Etsy

Having the ability to reproduce Lucite colors and carry the same color line is one of our proudest accomplishments since our business opened almost 8 years ago. The goal being we wanted to be sure to help our designers and wholesale clients restock inventory and make kits, using our Lucite. 

D_F29 Cup Flower - 12x9mm

Todays' feature is D_F29 12x9mm Cup Flower. It is one of our more popular Lucite flowers because it's so versatile. You can stack them, as with any of the Lucite -into the center of another flower, you can add a stamen of seed beads, you can put up to a 6mm bead inside the flower. It can be used as fringe, hanging off the end of a fringe stitch. And we have over 20 colors in this style.


Click here to find the D_F29. And look below to see some of the beautiful colors we carry in this line.

   

 

 

As I said earlier - we have over 20 colors of this style. It's such a versatile flower, we adore it. Check it out on our website and we know you'll love it as much as we do.


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Lucite Roses

If you're on Facebook you've seen many of your friends posting "Happy Chinese New Year" which is the year of the Dragon. There are actually 9 dragons, I guess so I've included a link to read about all 9 dragons and a little bit about Chinese Horoscopes. But I digress...normal for me. ha! Since it is a new year - not just for the Chinese but round the world.

A variation of Lucys' Day in the Sun using a Black Diamond Rose

I've decided to do a few informative blogs about our Lucite. Starting with our 40mm (base is 40mm) four-part roses - which are SUPER popular.

You can plainly see the four parts here.

And another view of the four-parts here.

Our Lucite is colored at the manufacturer. And like seed beads or resin - the coloring process is difficult to say the least and sometimes we get shade variances but most of the time - the colors are very true. I've lost count of how many styles we have anymore but I do know that we have 18 standard colors and two different production lines. With the two different production lines there are color variances, because, of course, there are two different manufacturers.

D_F205 Evening Blue

 

D_F29 Evening Blue

  

Our 40mm (base is 40mm)four-part rose D_F205 is $3.50 retail price. Click here to find them on our website. There are actually four different parts of the rose and they can be used independently, together or two pieces together and so on and so forth. But I am sure you just want pictures, right? Here you go...see the pretty pictures? 

 

And those are just some of the colors we carry on a regular basis here at The Hole Bead Shoppe. We love Lucite! 

Chinese New Year and . . .

It's 2012. We're so busy - I don't have time to write. So here are a BUNCH of COOL pictures for you to look at...why not comment on your favorite picture?


It's the Year of the Dragon in Chinese New Year/Horoscope.

Johnny Depp is single after 13+ years with the same woman.

We announced our Contest Winners and published a list of everyone who won on the blog, check it out here. Congrats again to all the winners! You're amazing! Thank you so much for 2011. We look forward to more  fun in 2012. 

The Hole Bead Shoppe has notified it's second winner of the Jar Oh' Lucies giveaway.

We're having a CZECH Trunk Show...with some of the most amazing beads I have ever seen in my LIFE! Wow! 

  

   

So what was your favorite picture? Let us know. Leave a comment. Thanks for reading. Happy 2012.

Will the following WINNERS - please take a bow?

Alas, our contests are over. We did enjoy giving away so many prizes and gift certificates and were overwhelmed by the gratitude shown to us by some of the winners. We felt that some of the winners realized - we're a TINY family business and giving away so much, when the economy is tough - was tough. However, we truly wanted to THANK so many of our clients and we enjoyed doing so.
Here is a list of contests - giveaways and winners! Thank you all for being sooooooooo special.

Jar oh' Lucies Winner:

Jar oh' Lucies Official count: 1361

Kelly Dale of North Carolina - FINALLY won with her entry:

CandyLovesJosh said...

OK, I'm going to guess 1350 pieces. LOVE LUCITE!

January 12, 2012 11:31 PM 


wins $407 in FREE Lucite flowers and leaves

Day of the Dead Challenge Winners:

First PRIZE values $315.00 : Stephanie Haussler 

Second PRIZE valued $100.00: Shelley Nybakke-Pleines

Third PRIZE $25.00: Beth Dewey

Facebook/Blog Fan Favorite valued $25.00: 

Trivia - Blog - Facebook Giveaways :

December 16^th, 2011 Blog Winners: 

Rachel Riska VanDyne won $25.00

 Vimala Nichols won $25.00

  Patricia Bergman won $25.00

 Tammy Sodavis won $25.00

 Penny Dabato won our Facebook Fan page giveaway – Why do you want to win a kit? A kit valued at $50.00 

December 9^th, 2011 Blog Winners:

 Mandy Duffy wins the book Dimensional Beading by Jamie Cloud Eakin

 AJ Reardon wins the FB Fan page giveaway – Why do I want to win a mystery box?

 Anne Ypsilon  won $25.00

 Mary Marshall won $25.00

 Chris Pratt won $25.00

 Karen Shaffer won $25.00

 December 2^nd, 2011 Blog Winners:

 Kim Dworak won $25.00

 Jeanne Marie DiAmicis won $25.00

 Beverly Moon won $25.00

 Nicole Jones won $25.00

 November 25^th, 2011 Blog Winners:

 Deb Leon won $25.00

 Marilou Porth won $25.00

Mona Peepers Ahleman won $25.00

 DeAnn Shirling won $25.00

 November 18^th, 2011 Blog Winners:

 Freda Smith won $25.00

 Lisa Mason won $25.00

 Shannon Iko Chomanczuk won $25.00

 Valerie Jackson won $25.00

 BONUS: Denise Uttke won the Book Classical Elegance 

BONUS:  Michelle Waugh won the Jean Campbell Book 

BONUS: Dana Smith wins the $25.00 –Kelli Burns FB page winner 

November 11^th, Blog Winners:

 Jennifer VanBenschoten won $25.00

 Katie Nelson  won $25.00

 Juanita Young won $25.00

 Linda Kienzle won $25.00

 November 4^th, Blog Winners:

 Kristen Ho won $25.00

 Kristen Stevens won $25.00

 Vivien Noll won $25.00

Yvette Fontenot $25.00

 Linda Darmes won Bead Riffs by Rachel Nelson Smith 

Mary Marshall won our FB giveaway – a Laura McCabe autographed book and eyeball. 

Elizabeth Schrader won the Swarovski Magazine/Book 

October 28^th, Blog Winners:

 Kristen Ho won $25.00

 Sally Anderson won $25.00

 Donna Fitzgerald won $25.00

 Christina Pawass won $25.00

 October 21^st Blog Winners:

 V. M. Smith won $25.00

 Stephanie Haussler won $25.00

 LisaMason won $25.00

 Evelyn Eslinger won $25.00

 October 14th Blog Winners:

 K. Nelson won $25.00

 K. Dworak won $25.00

 K. Beber won $25.00

 N. Turvey won $25.00

 October 7^th Blog Winners:

 F. Smith won $25.00

 R. Letterman won $25.00

 D. Fryer won $25.00 

S. Hielscher won $25.00 

Congratulations are in order for all these winners and particpants and entries to our Day of the Dead Challenge. We hope you enjoyed our contests...stay tuned. We just might go crazy again. . . soon! 

Contests . . . Jar oh' Lucies

Since October 2011, we've had contestants, contests and giveaways going non-stop. We've given away well over $2500 in prizes and gift certificates and have another contest set to start - NOW.


After this contest - we'll list all the winners and their prizes. We've had fun but we're going to take a break because we have a trunk show (more info later) and we're starting to think about doing trunk shows with our own merchandise. If I create one more "to-do" it's quite possible my husband and sister will walk out on me. 


Our last contest - for now - is easy. Just pick a number and add your comment below. Please only enter ONE TIME. Thanks!
The Jar oh' Lucies' contest ends 1/18/2012 and winner will be announced 1/19/2012. Winner gets the contents of the Jar oh' Lucite. (many of our customers have been awarded this jar either FREE or with a little shipping costs, just for being a GREAT LOYAL client) so here is your chance to win 407 bucks in LUCITE - FREE. . . yes. it's FREE! 


Stats are below:
The jar is 6 3/4 inches tall.
The jar is approx. 11 inches round.
The jar is 3 inch diameter.
The VALUE of contents of this jar (yes we know) is an astonishing $407.00!!


How to enter:
Leave a comment with the PIECE count of Lucite you think is in this jar. Closest guess WINS the JAR contents (not the jar, we love the jar and want to keep it.)

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