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We’ve been thrilled with the response to this year’s Easter Egg Hunt. Looking back, adding 100 more eggs made hunting more fun given the enormity of our site. If we keep growing, who knows, you could be looking for even more eggs in years to come! I think we’ll have to start hiding them in January [...]

The time has come for the 5th annual Easter Egg Hunt at Lima Beads! There are more prizes than ever, including more than $2,000 in gift certificates. We’ve also made the hunt a little easier and more fun by scattering double the number of eggs across our site. Read more about the hunt below, or check out [...]

We have our winners for the How Many Beads in the Jar?  contest! R Rushka has just won all of the beads in the jar ! We didn’t realize it when she first added her comment, but her guess of 1534 was exactly right!

The winner of the $25 Gift Certificate  is SCW Designs  with 1531! Just over an hour and a half after we posted the contest, [...]

If you guess exactly how many beads are in the jar, we’ll give you the entire contents of the jar!

 

The rules are simple: You have until 1 2pm Eastern Time on Monday, September 17th, 2012 to make your guess(es). Guesses can only be submitted in the comments of this post . The winner will be the closest guess (without going over). If there’s a [...]

First, we’ve added new selections to 3 of our most popular bead artists. We’ve also added 15 gemstone beads to the shop.

Artist Beads

Gaea and Kylie Parry have been doing some great ceramic work lately! We’ve added to the ever-popular selection of Gaea bundles with 12 new color mixes. We’ve also expanded the selection of Kylie Parry birds [...]

We’ve been saving up jump rings for months and today we’re adding them ALL. You’ll also find new gemstone beads , Green Girl Studios , and some nifty wire working tools including the WigJig.

Jump Rings

We’ve added full lines of Artistic Wire and anodized aluminum jump rings. They’re colorful and they come in lots of different sizes and gauges. If you use Artistic [...]

Today we’re adding the largest item in Lima Beads history — the Vintaj BIGkick by Sizzix . If you work with metal, you have to see it. We’re also adding gemstone beads and some fab rubber sheet stamps .

Vintaj BIGkick by Sizzix

If you’ve taken the jump into mixed media jewelry design, you’ll love this user-friendly metal cutting and embossing machine. Start [...]

It’s an exciting day at Lima. We have some awesome new golden pyrite beads and two ways for you to save a bunch of money.

Golden Pyrite

Golden pyrite gemstone beads are hot right now! We can’t seem to keep them in stock, so we’re very happy to add a fresh selection to the shop. You’ll find everything from [...]

We’ve added three lines of products to the shop this week: New sparkly pave beads , all of TierraCast’s latest pieces, and of course, some gemstones beads .

Pave Beads

We’ve decided to try out a line of super sparkly pave beads. These beads are made with polymer clay and then set with hundreds of little crystals on their surface to give your [...]

Here it is on an iPad

Over the last few months, we’ve been hearing a lot of people asking us to let them shop the Big Green Bead Machine on their iPads, smartphones, and computers that don’t have Flash installed. Well, a couple of weeks ago, we did just that.

One of the goals of our new website was [...]

This post is part of a series for the 2011 Holiday Season… Follow along on the  Holiday Page !

Give your handmade gifts the wrapping they deserve! Forget about the box and the paper, the tag is what can really separate your wrapping job from the pack. Using supplies that you already have at home, you can easily make [...]

I think the scariest thing about these Fresh Pick Challenges is how creative our customers are! When Steve gave everyone the ability to create their own Fresh Picks, we weren’t sure how it was going to go. I think this goes without saying, but it’s been wildly successful.

Here are the four lucky Fresh Pickers who came [...]

It seems like this is becoming somewhat of a Halloween tradition around here. To keep you busy during Scream Week , we decided to resurrect the Fresh Pick Challenge! There will be 4 prizes , one for the winner of each of the following categories:

Best Composition: The overall composition is one of the most important qualities of a beautiful Fresh [...]