pugdog
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Sep 26, 2005, 12:14 PM
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Welcome to the Bead Exchange (Swap/Trade) Board
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Our "Bead Exchange & Swap" is designed to renew your interest in beading.
It works very simply: Bring your tired, old, unloved beads, into our shop and exchange them for fresh, new exciting beads!
Your extras, left overs, and "boring" beads may be just the inspiration someone else needs to start beading again!
Originally, the Bead Exchange was an idea to encourage people to purchase enough material (dye lots) to finish a project. Any left overs could be brought back to the shop, and exchanged for new material. That way, a beader (and our customers) didn't get stuck with odds and ends and a "cash sink" that drained their enjoyment of beading. What was no longer useful or insipiring to them, might be exactly what someone else needed for their own project. A small membership fee and a few simple rules were enacted to prevent abuses.
As people came through the shop, we heard "But I have so many beads already" as people drooled over a new style or color. When we asked what they were making, or doing, with beads, often it was "I haven't done anything in awhile." What was happening, was thier "stash" of extras, impulse purchases "years ago" and the "cost" of these beads already in their possession was weighing down their creativity. It was preventing them from moving on, and doing something new. These "old" beads had moved from inspiration to being a source of stress.
So, we opened up the Bead Exchange to people who had not purchased their beads with us, again with a few rules to prevent abuses.
Over the past few years, The Bead Exchange has grown, evolved and developed. It's a popular option for people, and we plan on continuing it, and nurturing it, and fostering renewed creativity.
PUGDOG's Rock & Bead Shop
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
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