We're expecting both air and sea shipments to arrive in the next week or so. One note: if you've been waiting for any of the Miyuki kits, I'm happy (and sad) to say that they are selling far more quickly than we anticipated, and most of the inbound ones are already promised to customers. We're increasing our reorder quantities so hopefully next year we'll get ahead of the curve.

Miyuki is making new sample cards for the new beads that will start arriving with the inbound sea shipment. I don't have a delivery date yet, but they have started to make the first of them.

Speaking of sample cards, we have started to make sets of sample cards for the C-Lon bead cord. This is an astonishingly slow process, but sometime in the next few weeks the first 80 sets should be available. Based on the labor involved, I'm tempted to charge $100 per set (of four cards) but the final price will be much more reasonable. I've also joked that we should sign and number them, like art prints, so that they will be properly admired by their new owners.

We've had a number of inquiries about our Mmmm...Miyuki contest, and we recently sent Beadwork the copy and photo for the next ad and contest. My lips are sealed, but we'll post the information about contest #2 in early January.

And finally, most of the new bead tubes mentioned in our news of 10/8 are now in stock and starting to sell--thanks!

We're expecting both air and sea shipments from Miyuki to arrive in the next week or so. I'll let you know as soon as we have accurate dates. The sea shipment has

We've scheduled two holiday earring classes in our retail store. Dates and times are:

Tues November 27th & Tues December 11th from 6pm - 8pm. Cost is $25 + materials. This is equivalent to our basic earring class but each student will make three pairs of holiday earrings. Here's a sample of the kinds of earrings you could make.

Reservations required: Please call the store at 207-761-2503 x 211 or stop by to register.

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