It’s been a great week

Well some great new, this week our forum registered it’s 100th member!!! Considering the forum has been online for less than 7 weeks this is wonderful news and just backs up what we already knew: beading in the UK is growing in popularity and beaders are looking for recognition, and a place to network and chat with their fellow beaders.

I’ve given a bit of an update to the UK Beaders main site by reorganising the UK supplier’s pages. With well over 200 suppliers in the UK listed it is now easier to browse through smaller pages.

Entries for our first group challenges are trickling in and I have created a page on the main site to showcase the winning members work.

Hope you are enjoying the very un-British weather and remembering to use lots of sun tan lotion.

Busy, busy, busy!

Phew, I just finished adding 17 wonderful website to UK Beaders and have updated the shops map with 5 more stores for you to visit!

Earlier today (OK as it's now the small hours it was technically yesterday) I posted details of our first group challenges, with a couple of wonderful UK themes.

The first was inspired by the queens 80th birthday celebration - The children's party in the palace. I watched the whole thing on TV and thought it was great fun. This theme allows lots of scope with many different creative avenues to be explored.

The other challenge is a bit more specific and involves using the colour red. Why red? Because of all the amazing British icons that are red including Routemaster buses, telephone boxes and royal mail post boxes!

Site updated - problem fixed!

Just a quick update to let you all know that I recently upgraded the site so now you will notice there are no adverts spoiling the site and getting in the way.

When you click on a link to any of the sites listed the site's address will show up in your address bar so you no longer have any problems in book marking any great sites you come across when using the UK Beaders site.

We now have a Fantastic Forum!!!

I'm so happy to bring you the latest resource to UK Beaders... our brand spanking new forum!

I must say this wouldn't have been possible without the help of my wonderful fiance!

This does mean that over the next few weeks I will be fazing out use of the msn group in favour of the forum as it has so many better features for our members. Rest assured I will email all our members and keep everyone abreast of developments.

So here's to the forum! - See you there.

New feature for the UK Beaders Shops map.

In response to recent requests I have started adding the details of studios and teachers offering classes/lessons/tuition to the map!

In future I may also be adding beading groups too, but at the moment it is proving difficult to gather the details of any established beading groups around the UK.

If you have any other suggestions for ways to utilise the maps facilities just let me know.