Beadventures

07/07/2024

Join Jay Paramesh for a workshop as we cruise around Japan to Hong Kong in October 2025! Click for details about this fabulous trip: https://www.beadventures.com/html/destinations/japan-china-cruise.php

If you're passionate about beads, travel, and exploring new places, Beadventures is for you!

06/01/2024

Join Beadventures on a cruise with Jay Paramesh around Japan, South Korea, and China in October 2025! Optional trip extension in Hong Kong to shop for beads, pearls, textiles!!!!

Beadventures offers international travel to over 14 countries with talented teachers and experts in the field of beadwork, beadmaking, fiber arts, and more. Creativity, sparked by culture and nurtured by talented teachers is what Beadventures is all about.

05/31/2024

The Bead Tours that I (Doris Coghill) will leading for 2025 are now posted on the Beadventures web site
https://www.beadventures.com/

Tucson Gem Show Feb 1-6, 2025 - 4 days of shopping and all you have to worry about is getting on and off the van I will be driving.

Czech Republic April 24th - May 8th, 2025 - 5 Days in Prague and then 9 days up in the mountains visiting bead factories, museums, button factory, glass factories, Christmas Ornament Factory and much more!

The picture is showing bead molds

04/03/2024

The 2025 trip to Czech has just been posted to the Beadventures web site
https://www.beadventures.com/html/destinations/czech-2025.php
We will have a new guide this year so have a list of new places to try and visit which include a Cab factory and a glass pearl factory in addition to all of the other bead/glass related factories that we go to. The hotel in Prague in doing a renovation so we will be staying in fresh new rooms.

The picture is glass rods waiting to become beads

09/30/2023

In Athens Greece getting ready for our next Beadventure! Tomorrow we’ll set sail on a 14-day cruise throughout Greece, to Israel and Turkey!!!!

09/13/2023

Sample cards from button factory in Jablonec, Czech Republic

09/12/2023

Bead shopping paradise. Czech Beadventure.

09/11/2023

Beadshopping in the Bohemian Paradise city of Zlenzy Brod. We shopped til we dropped at several places and toured a glass gallery with amazing pieces, then shopped some more in Jablonec at G and B.

09/10/2023

Another day of great food and of course really great shopping. 3 generations of glass artists in the same house/studio. Czech is all about glass.

09/09/2023

Rautis Christmas ornament factory was today's adventure.
Then the Krkonosskych myseum. Learned about Czech life on the mountains and the mountain ghost

09/06/2023

Beaded garden at Decorative Arts Museum in Prague. One more day here. Tomorrow we will head up to Jablonec and see beads being made!

02/04/2023

Our happy group is heading home today with Very heavy suitcases. Some even shipped some stuff.

02/02/2023

DAY 3 of the Tucson 2023 Beadventure.
Think these will fit in my suitcase?

02/01/2023

Tuesday was the first day shopping at the 2023 Tucson Beadventure. Ended the day tired but happy with our purchases

06/08/2022

Lampwork snowflakes

06/08/2022

Homemade Czech strudel with tea and coffee by Mrs Nikl. With lampwork demonstrations.
Perfume bottle artist - Finished product and an example of the molds used to create them. Many if the molds are 100+ years old

06/03/2022

Ingredients to make glass + wooden molds = great things being blown by this production glass factory in Novy Bor.

05/30/2022

Day 2 in Prague.
Old car tour of the city
Lunch at rooftop Cafe with a view of Old Town Square

05/30/2022

Sunday in Prague.
Lunch boat ride and free afternoon to wonder the town.
Great shopping!

05/30/2022

View from the top if the Klementinum tower

05/29/2022

Welcome dinner in Prague at the Municipal House.
Everyone arrived safely, just still waiting for some luggage. But she is not alone as No one on that plane got their luggage!

10/24/2021

Join Monica Vinci under the Tuscan sun!
https://conta.cc/2Zg86xn

08/16/2021

Join Monica Vinci in Italy! Two weeks in Tuscany plus a workshop on an original design with Monica. September 19 - October 3, 2022! https://www.beadventures.com/html/destinations/italy-monica-vinci-maggie-meister.php

07/20/2021

It’s time to plan that trip you’ve always wanted to take to Italy?!? Beadventures has a fabulous trip with Monica Vinci and Maggie Meister in September 2022–check out the details! https://www.beadventures.com/html/destinations/italy-monica-vinci-maggie-meister.php

Beadventures offers international travel to over 14 countries with talented teachers and experts in the field of beadwork, beadmaking, fiber arts, and more. Creativity, sparked by culture and nurtured by talented teachers is what Beadventures is all about.

07/20/2021

Join Beadventures in Italy! Monica Vinci and Maggie Meister invite you to Tuscany for a fabulous visit to this beautiful region—plus a visit to the world famous antique market in Arezzo. Add to it a workshop with Monica on a fabulous new project. Wowza! https://www.beadventures.com/html/destinations/italy-monica-vinci-maggie-meister.php

Beadventures offers international travel to over 14 countries with talented teachers and experts in the field of beadwork, beadmaking, fiber arts, and more. Creativity, sparked by culture and nurtured by talented teachers is what Beadventures is all about.

04/06/2021

Join Sabine Lippert on a Beadventure and sail the Baltic Sea June 9-22, 2022! Check out the fabulous itinerary and the special project Sabine is designing inspired by the destinations!
https://www.beadventures.com/html/destinations/baltic-cruise-sabine-lippert.php

02/22/2021

Great Article about the Museum of Glass and Jewelry that we visit during our Czech tours. But it also gives the names of several other museums that I will have to search out on my next visit.

Muzeum skla a bižuterie v Jablonci nad Nisou minulý rok odhalilo novou přístavbu, takzvaný Krystal. V nových výstavních prostorech sídlí největší sbírka vánočních ozdob na světě, zároveň ale slouží jako výstavní prostor pro dočasné expozice. Hlavní kuráto