Nova Scotia, Canada is a small province. There aren't really a whole lot of jobs even when times are good. So when Hollie Ferrall's husband wanted to spend more time at home in the Halifax area rather than work abroad, it made sense to start their own business. It was the only solution if they wished to remain in the Maritimes. They bought and relaunched The Beading Room in early 2009 and never looked back. An online store made sense as it does not matter where it is located!
It is a truly family run business as there are only two people, Hollie and Brian doing all the work! Not all couples can work so well together but they do by sharing the load. Hollie says she "deals with all the ordering, website, social
media, customer service and shipping, while Brian picks, counts and
packs all the orders, photographs all the stock as it comes in, and does
the free door-to-door deliveries in Halifax on Thursday mornings. It
is a nice way to meet some of our local customers face-to-face!"
They focus mainly on glass and crystal beads as well as accessories and tools. Their inventory is growing month by month. Shown here are some of my picks.
The Ferralls pride themselves in listening to what our
customers want and having a personal relationship with each of them. They do welcome creations and links on their Facebook page.
Giveaway
If you'd like to win a $100 Gift Certificate from The Beading Room for all sorts of goodies, please make a comment below. Make sure you leave contact info if you do not have an online shop or blog.
Subscribers need to click on the post title to come to my actual blog. Scroll down and enter your comment. Pick Name/URL. If you don't have a store or blog, leave the URL blank.
This giveaway is international.
Extra entries if you become or are a blog subscriber or follower etc. If you also do shout outs about this giveaway, those will count as additional entries too! Please say so in the comments.
It ends in a week's time at 6 pm EST Monday, May 27, 2013. I will pick the winner randomly and announce the results as soon as possible after. So be sure to leave a contact email if you don't have an online link or make sure you come back and check! Otherwise I will redraw in a week. Good luck!
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Original Post by THE BEADING GEM
Jewelry Making Tips - Jewelry Business Tips
Square Wire for Wire Wrapping |
Lazee Daizee Viking Knit Tool Set |
Kumihimo Starter Kit |
Miyuki Christmas Present Beading Kit |
If you'd like to win a $100 Gift Certificate from The Beading Room for all sorts of goodies, please make a comment below. Make sure you leave contact info if you do not have an online shop or blog.
Subscribers need to click on the post title to come to my actual blog. Scroll down and enter your comment. Pick Name/URL. If you don't have a store or blog, leave the URL blank.
This giveaway is international.
Extra entries if you become or are a blog subscriber or follower etc. If you also do shout outs about this giveaway, those will count as additional entries too! Please say so in the comments.
It ends in a week's time at 6 pm EST Monday, May 27, 2013. I will pick the winner randomly and announce the results as soon as possible after. So be sure to leave a contact email if you don't have an online link or make sure you come back and check! Otherwise I will redraw in a week. Good luck!
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Original Post by THE BEADING GEM
Jewelry Making Tips - Jewelry Business Tips
Love anything Pearl....I mean Pearl the author of course. You are awesome.
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thank you so much for having a site we can learn from. I am a novice and have learned so much. I would love to win your gift cert.
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I'll have to check out their shop. Would love a chance to win.
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And I'm your follower too :)
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Sounds great! Count me in.
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I am a Facebook follower and a blog subscriber.
always happy to find another family owned business.
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Yay for a family business. Double yay when they sell beads!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a really terrific giveaway! Thank you, and I'm off to check out their website.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteHollie and Brian are lovely people, met them years ago at a bead show. They offer excellent products and the free home delivery service is a bonus.
Margaret
Just started beading, but it's quickly becoming an obsession! Love your blog, Pearl.
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Thank you for this opportunity. I would love love love to win! I would love to visit the Beading Room in person some day!!!!
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Its awesome giveaway! Thanks!
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Thank you for the giveaway :)
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Hi Pearl, I love your blog, it's the first thing I open. Hadn't been on the Beading Room's site but checked them out and added them to my shopping bookmarks. Their site is so well organized and easy to use. Thanks for doing all that you do to make it more fun to bead.
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What a great giveaway. Sounds like a lovely business - I he it continues to thrive xxxx
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I am a blog follower and Fb follower and will share on the FB xxxx
I follow via email.
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I tweeted
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Hi Pearl
ReplyDeleteI discovered Hollie & Brian's "store" a few years ago when I was looking for a Canadian online site for beading supplies. One never knows what a company is like until you actually deal with it. The Beading Room exceeded my expectations — I was delighted by the personal service and the attention to my order. My best wishes on their continued success.
I'm a blog follower.
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ReplyDeleteI'd love to win this. Visiting Nova Scotia is on the top of my Travel Bucket List. So, I will try to support their store.
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Awesome giveaway, and I love that they can work so well together. Thanks Pearl and The Beading Room!
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As you may know, I'm a follower of The Beading Gem's Journal.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I'm off to check out this couples online shop - it sounds marvelous. :)
I love hearing about small business that are successful & have a personalized approach. I live where I have limited access to beading & jewelry supplies, so finding out about a new mail order source is a treat. I'd love to win this!!
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear of your success! Will check out the on-line store.
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ReplyDelete"Help! I tried multiple times to leave a comment, but when I click the "leave a comment" link, it gives me an error message. I would love to comment & possibly win the gift certificate, but the system won't let me. I've left comments on your earlier blogs, & it's always worked in the past, so I don't know why it won't work today."
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Plan to check this resource out right away. What fun to discover new stuff (design elements sounds better).
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GFC Follower.
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Google Reader subscribe.
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What a great story about this business! It is great that husband and wife can work together. They have many wonderful products and it would be great to win this gift certificate! Thank you for the giveaway offer.
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It is so awesome to hear about a couple pursuing their dreams and doing it together, I LOVE to hear stories such as this, Thanks for all your great content Pearl and of course I'd LOVE to win this generous giveaway!!!
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count me in! And of course I am a follower!
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Please include me in your fab giveaway. I will definitely check out their site as I'm always looking for Canadian bead sites/sellers.
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I follow on FB
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Great business and great giveaway! Thank you so much!
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Wow! Awesome giveaway! Thanks so much for the chance to win. Heather - hilltophaven@gmail.com
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I follow your blog by email
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Today I shared this opportunity on Facebook because every beader likes a treat!
Thank you and The Beading Room for the giveaway
Excellent giveaway, as usual Pearl. My wallet would thank you!!! janet119@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteFirstly, I love that you have made me aware of a business "in my backyard", Pearl (I live in New Brunswick). I mailorder from suppliers in PEI, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and BC, in addition to many outside of Canada, but of course I always appreciate more shops in Canada for speedy delivery! I follow you via email. My email is on my blogger profile.
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It would be great to be able to shop here. They have lovely beads. Thanks
ReplyDeleteThere are so many wonderful things the lucky winner could buy and make from their supplies! It would be more than great if I was that lucky one :D
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Ivana
lingupivana@yahoo.co.uk
I'm also a blog subscriber :)
Just love this blog!!! thanks for the giveaway!!!
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mlsjewel@yahoo.com
Oh, I would love to win this one!
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Wow, what an awesome giveaway!! I would be honored to receive anything! Thanks so much!
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Hiya Pearl,
ReplyDeleteI think they have the perfect way of making a living but I'm not sure I could tear myself away from all the pretties. Thanks for the chance to win, Pearl :)
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I follow your blog by email and on FB. My favorite blog!
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ReplyDeleteWould love to win this one. The Beading Room is a hop-skip-and jump from where I live and I have found many items there that I can't get anywhere else locally.
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ReplyDeleteI would love to win The Beading Room's $100 Certificate Give Away it is so Generous! and it would be a big help!
The square wire I cannot find here in Australia.
Thank you!
Fiona
suchpizzazz@hotmail.com
I'm a blog follower and a facebook fan
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful to hear that a husband and wife team have made a go of a business in a place where businesses aren't plentiful. I can hardly wait to here about when they will be changing the name of their business from 'The Beading Room' to The Beading House' because they have moved into the garage! :0)
ReplyDeleteYou have the best giveaways of any website. You rock, Pearl! Love the idea of winning such a great gift certificate.
ReplyDeleteWell I am definitely going to check out the beading room site because I have been looking to get some supplies for doing Viking Knit and I already got the Lazee Daizee Tool but I need some of the other items. Thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteI am a newer fan of this site, but you have been so helpful with your tutorials and of course the great freebies, that I am torn about sharing. I want to let everyone know about your site, but then again, I want to keep it all to myself. I guess I can share since it's so awesome. Thank you!!!!!
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just learning,, already hooked. would
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email:
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just learning, would love to win. thanks for the chance :)
ReplyDeleteI would love those goodies!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Pearl. I'm a follower on FB, blog twitter.
Carol
designingit
I'm definitely picking these smiling buddha beads if I win!
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What a generous giveaway! I would love to win.
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Shared on FB
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I would so adore this prize! And I love your blog!
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ReplyDeleteChecked out the shop, and love it! Would be great to win $100 to spend there! bjlv25@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteYahoo, beads from Canada!! and a great selection of different types of wire. Far nicer to shop there than at the big box stores. Please enter me for this contest and I am a follower on FB and I get the daily news letter...and love it!
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ReplyDeleteI wish them all the very best of luck with the buisiness !! I would love to win so I can indulge my addiction further. Thanks so much. Linda - talktolindac@gmail.com
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What a nice shop. I would love to win. smamabird@aol.com
ReplyDeleteSharon W.
thanks for telling us about this business and the giveaway!
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It was a delight to visit the Beading Room's site - such a an enthusiastic atmosphere created by their shop sections - who wouldn't be tempted by 'perfect pendants', 'fabulous findings' and 'terrific tools'. It's now a bookmarked beading site for me and of course fingers crossed for the giveaway. Great it is international as it will need to travel all the way to Australia if I'm lucky.
ReplyDeleteAlready a follower :)
ReplyDeleteJaimi rnjameleon@gmail.com
What does one do with square wire?
What a nice selection of wires and beads. The "Beaded Garden" is going on my wish list.
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Such a nice thing to do I have been following you faithfully for about 9 months now. Congrats.
ReplyDeleteMaria
mrobin49@bellsouth.net
OOOh Pick me please. i live in Vermont by the Quebec border...there are NO bead or art supply places within 100 miles or more !
ReplyDeletethanks muchly, eh?
rhalfmoon@yahoo.com
What a great giveaway! I follow you by email and on Facebook. Christie
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear of a couple working well together . I wish them well. Pearl I follow you with Google reader but I guess I'll soon have to choose another method , but for now I just hope to win this giveaway.
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I would love to visit this store. What a generous offer.
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Too cool. Would love to win!!!
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Would love to win and be able to shop away.
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Blog subscriber.
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What an awesome giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
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ReplyDeleteYes please include me in this giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI am a blog subscriber, and a follower on Twitter and Google+.
I tweeted the giveaway: https://twitter.com/barleecreations/status/338008769294368769
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They certainly carry a variety of all sorts of things. Winning this gift certificate would be awesome!
ReplyDeleteI'm a blog follower.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fb fan.
ReplyDeleteJust shared on fb. Thank you Pearl!
ReplyDeleteThis is a truly wonderful giveaway. Very thoughtful!
ReplyDeleteI posted to Facebook and sent a couple personal emails as well. Plus I follow your blog.
Thanks for this opportunity to shop at this wonderful store.
My email is marytown79@gmail.com
Thanks again...mary
Thanks for such a lovely and instructive site! I'd love to win!
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thanks for the chance to win the gift certificate. also thanks for posting the tutorial on wire wrapping a cabachon. I have been trying to learn how to do this and not very successful, so this was very helpful.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this wonderful oppertunity!I love everything in the shop A LOT!
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I just love love love square wire.
ReplyDeleteA chance to try something new. Thanks.
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