The Berylune Blog

You read correctly my friend, it's been 10 years since we opened our wee shop around the corner on Park St. Berylune came in to being the same year as the UK hosted our 3rd Olympics and the Queen celebrated...

A whole year! A year ago this weekend, we upped sticks and moved... all the way to the top of the road, to a much bigger premises, at the corner of Warwick St & Park St. It's been a heck of a year!...

In my last post, I explained why we picked 100 Warwick St; I also mentioned the false walls, suspended ceiling and carpet tiles… These are the images of the downstairs we received in the agent’s details: The shop doesn't look...

Whew! It’s been a while! No blog posts for, like… ever. Here we are, back with an epic one.  So, what have we been up to? So our last post that goes in to any detail was in 2018, chatting...

...La La La Local! On Thursday 13th December, we will be taking part in Leamington's Living Advent Calendar! We will be offering after hours shopping with drinks, nibbles and live entertainment from our good friends Laura & her lovely husband Dave. They...

Emily moved house in 2017, which meant our 'Fulfilment Warehouse' (aka Emily's Garage), was no longer available for packing all of our online orders, ready to be sent out to lovely customers. We needed a solution, as Christmas was rapidly approaching...

We celebrated our 5th Birthday last weekend! We offered our customers some exciting discounts, handed out treats and free gifts, covered the shop in balloons and had an exciting surprise - our good friend Liz brought Annie, her vintage ice...

Well this is a bit of a dream come true! We have been ogling crafty people's houses and creative spaces in Mollie Makes since just before we opened our shop, almost 5 years ago. We have had a few products...

Friday was the big day! We headed over to The Family Tree, along with 200 revellers, for our fourth annual Craft Party.  The crafts on offer upstairs were a samosa coin purse, a beaded bar necklace, a monochrome decorated mug, a...

We have been planning #craftpartyleam 2016 for a few weeks now. We have been making samples, ordering things, planning & plotting to make sure you have an amazing time! As before, you'll get a Berylune goodie bag to take home...

and what a Christmas we have had! We have had sacks and sacks of outgoing mail, a bashed head, a trip to A & E, two extra members of staff to help us keep up and lots of lovely customers...

Last Saturday, we held our 3rd annual craft party at Family Tree Club on Kenilworth Street. 150 revellers came along, painted beads, made hand mirrors, threaded tassel bracelets, decorated party hats, played with Hama Beads, made pom poms, decoupaged pen...

Our third annual Craft Party is scheduled for next Saturday, 6th June! This year, we'll be painting big geometric beads to make a necklace, threading wooden bead bracelets with cotton tassels, applying sayings to pennant banners, playing with Modpodge to...

A lovely new customer came into the shop yesterday, and mentioned that she had  been reading our blog. I apologised that I don't blog much anymore - we really enjoy posting on instagram, but the blog has definitely taken a...

Nic and I enjoyed a week in Paris recently. I shopped, ate and enjoyed the sights. I love that cola costs more than wine in Paris... it seems rude not to! But please, can we stop this lock related madness?...

Three years? Really? Our little shop has changed a lot since we opened our doors in May 2012. There are so many things we would do differently if we were to open another shop now. Yet I don't think we...

Zoë made an Easter wreath!  It took a few more chicks than anticipated (I think the final count is 170, which exhausted the stocks of Poundland Leamington). So maybe use a slightly smaller  hoop than we did, or space your...

We've had these for a few weeks, but essential drilling and VAT returns had to occur before I could take a pretty picture:     They're a retro remake of mid century Dutch classic 'Tomado' wall shelves. They're £79 in...

We have blank nests of Easter Eggs in stock, and Amy has been having fun decorating them!


Ingredients:

Nest of 3 blank Easter Egg
1 pot of Mod Podge
3 sheets of tissue paper
A pair of scissors
A paintbruse

We've had label makers before, but now we have a new batch that are both cooler and cheaper! Theres the mini, below, which comes with a roll of black tape that attaches to the side:

After a brief blogging respite, due to thousands of teeny tiny envelopes that needed to be made for Valentines Day, my 80's Movie Alphabet is back.

J

I couldn't find any 80s 'J' movies of note. I was excited that I would get to tell you how awesome Jaws is, but that was made in 1975. Duh.

If I've missed something of note, do let me know.

In the mean time, we'll swiftly move along tto K.

K

The Karate...