Happy New Year from Your Beloved!

Happy New Year from all of us at Beloved. As I say in the video we have lots of exciting news. As well as the baby, and the new shop, we’ve also been featured on House and Leisure’s blog today. What joy! Please find the article here, and feel free to share it with your friends.

As well as our brand new addition, now six whole days old, our other little ones who join us at work are also thriving. Here are a couple of pictures.

Happy New Year to you all. I have a feeling that 2012 is going to be wonderful. Here’s hoping…

Join Us At The Designer-Maker Market

I am very, very pleased to announce that Beloved Beadwork will have a stand at the Designer-Maker Market at the Freeworld Design Centre this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

The list of exhibitors reads like a who’s-who of designers in Cape Town, and I am deeply proud that we have been selected. Here’s a video of last year’s market:

DESIGNER-MAKER Artisan market from Greg Fraser on Vimeo.

And here are a couple of videos about my preparations for the market:

Please pop in if you have the chance.

Beloved Days

Our days are happy at the moment at Beloved. We’re the good kind of busy. Christmas is coming and we’ve got lots of lovely orders.

On Saturday, we were invited to the Freedom To Create award ceremony. Nomakhwezi, Nambitha, Mado, Therese and I attended. It was a wonderful evening.

And today is a Wednesday. Wednesdays are always good at Beloved, because we have christened them our Chocolate Brownie Wednesdays! A small market is held in the shopping centre just down the road from us featuring lots of small producers, one of whom makes incredible brownies. So they are our midweek treat!

We hope you’re having a happy day too :-)

With love from your Beloved. x

New Beads

We’ve got a new stock of beautiful beads at Beloved. Here’s a video:

Yeayness.

We Won! Halala!

You may remember sometime ago we posted about the visit of the World Design Capital adjudicators to Montebello. Back then, waiting until the end of October to hear the news felt like a million years away. But, as always, time has flown by, and this morning they made the announcement. AND WE GOT IT! It is just fantastic news.

Enjoy this little video about why we’re awesome!

YEAY!