Preciosa crystals

PING - KALERA - Kalera often includes preciosa crystals with her lampwork beads. Maybe Kalera would be willing to share a source for these? I love their colors as well.

Patti

I can buy them direct from the manufacturer but I don't want to buy mass amounts right now.

They're gorgeous beads, and there is supposed to be a new distributor here in the UK in the coming months which will mean I can buy them without having to make up the bulk amounts I'd have to otherwise by buying direct.

Some of the new colours and finishes are stunning and I can't wait to stock up my crystal storage box with them.

I just ordered one in a moment of fiscal insanity after a good show last weekend from The Craft Kit Company, whose storage I love!

It's this one

I LOVE Preciosa! There aren't as many colors as Swarovski, but they're gorgeous. I go through a lot of them as spacers, so I buy in bulk from czechbeads.com, but INM Crystal has them too, at reasonable prices with, I think, no minimum order:

Oooh I just noticed that INM doesn't have all the colors, though! Bummer.

I almost commited mayhem to get my hands on the sample cards but I changed my mind at the last microsecond. Barely.

I would love to see Preciosa take a bigger share of the crystal market.

-Su

Kalera, Thanks for posting the sites. There are quite a few items on the INM site I'd like to order. They do have good prices on findings as well.

Patti

Shipwreck also carries Preciosa.

Has anyone seen the new Helsinki Crystals?

Barbara Beader and Polymer Clay Crusader

Have you no heart?

LOL.

And can you stop using that word 'shipwreck' when I'm around?

Last night on TV there was a great show about the trawlers who still go fishing in the North Sea, little 60' boats. So there I am, watching this show about boats going up and down in 30' waves and the wind starts picking up and I'm in a boat going side to side while the boat on the tv is going up and down....

I had to turn to a different channel.

-Su

Barb -

I have not seen the Helenski Crystals in person as yet, but I am hoping that they live up to the billing.

More GOOD crystal choices would be nice.

I am a sparkle Ho, and firepolished just doesn't do it for me. I want mach> Shipwreck also carries Preciosa.

I would just love to see them come out with more colors! The palette they have now is pretty serviceable, though, so I'm not complaining really.

I haven't seen them, or even heard of them! Off on a Web search...