The end of July already! Here is what is coming up this week here at The Bouncing Bead.

Don’t forget to keep your eyes open for the Blog Giveaway! Become a Fan on Facebook, Tweet on Twitter or subscribe to The Blog to know when the giveaway starts! Look on the right side of the blog to join any of these options.

Now for the classes coming up this week:

Intro. to Wire July 27th 10:30am – 12:30pm

Basic Knotting July 28th 6pm – 8pm

Wire Wrapped Cabochon July 28th 6pm – 8pm

Manipulated Metal July 29th 1pm – 3pm

Intro. to Wire July 31st 10am – Noon

Manipulated Metal July 31st 11am – 1pm

Everybody Loves Leather July 31st 1pm – 3pm

See you next week for another look at the upcoming week! Don’t forget about the giveaway coming up!

I posted on Facebook the other day about having a blog giveaway and someone responded “What’s that?” So here I am to explain what a blog giveaway is to all you newbies.

In the blogging community there is a HUGE movement of using bloggers to promote products, stores, artists, ideas with giveaways of products. They can come from small companies to big companies, Etsy shops to local artists, your own items to someone you know. It is great advertising for the person supplying the product and it also helps the blogger to get more followers! It is also very cool for the winner as they get FREE stuff!

By doing Blog Giveaways here at The Bouncing Bead we would love to have more people find out about us. Both our physical store but also our growing online store and our Facebook community. We also want to introduce new products, favorite products and local artists. The larger our following is the cooler the giveaways will be as crafting suppliers will be more likely to donate products for us to giveaway in exchange for getting their name here on The Blog. For right now though I have asked Laura to set aside some really cool things to giveaway until we get to that point. We will only be giving away items we absolutely love and highly recommend!

A huge win-win for everyone!

You may be asking yourself “What do I have to do to win?” Well you will have to do a few things to get entered into the giveaway but they are painless I assure you. I will always have 1 entry for everyone no matter what! It will probably be an easy question about beading or something. You will then leave your answer as a comment on the blog. Your email address remains hidden and only I can see it and won’t share it! When the end date of the giveaway comes I will count the entries and use a random number generator to pull the winner. You do not have to be local to win as we will ship your prize to you but you have to live in the Continental US, sorry no out of country shipping. I will almost always have chances for extra entries and I will describe each one so you know what to do.

So are there any questions??? If so leave them in the comment box at the bottom of this post or if you are on the front page of the blog look at the top of this post and click on the blog post title and it will take you to the blog post in full. Scroll down to the comment area and do your thing. You can also email me directly with your questions to michelle@thebouncingbead.com

I am sooooo excited to get this underway! Look for the first giveaway in the next week or so. I will post it on Facebook, Twitter and of course here on The Blog.

Welcome to another week in review here at The Bouncing Bead.

Simply Solder July 20th 1pm – 3pm

Simply Solder

Whimsy Weave July 20th 6pm – 8pm

Whimsy Weave

Basic Knotting July 21st 6pm – 8pm

Basic Knotting

Intro. to Wire July 22nd 6pm – 8pm

Intro to Wire

Copper Patina for July 21st is FULL

Basic Beading July 24th 9am – 11am

Basic Beading

Simply Solder July 24th 10am – Noon

Simply Solder

Double Loop Bracelet July 24th 1pm – 3pm

Double Loop Bracelet

Copper Patina July 24th 1pm – 3pm

Copper Patina Class

Tomorrow, July 17th, we are having a new kind of party! It has been dubbed “Hey it’s hot out there but cool in here come and play “beads” with us! We’ll provide the Iced Green Tea or bring your own refreshments.”

So come and play! We are open from 10am – 6pm and have plenty of room for everyone. Bring your projects or nothing and get one started!

A Basic Knotting class has been added to the calendar on July 21st 6pm – 8pm

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