About Us

Hello,

My Name is Bettina and I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself. My first online beading experience was the sale of beads on the BoxLot auction site in 1998. As I grew more comfortable with this new thing they called the Internet, I ventured into selling more and more of my vast collection of vintage beads. I will never forget the excitement I felt whenever I discovered someone had bid on one of my auctions. The Auction format introduced a wonderfully new venue for buyers and sellers alike. The only reservation I had was that, by nature of their very size, these sites seemed too impersonal. Wouldn’t it be great, I remember wondering, if there was an auction site for Just Beads?

The JustBeads.com bead auction site represented the fruition of a personal dream I took great pride in having made a reality. From its very inception, my goal was not to create just another multi-category clone of the larger auction sites that existed at the time but rather to create a virtual community made up of a variety of bead people, individual buyers, and sellers, who could do more than buy or sell beads, .they could have fun, shop around and get to know one another.

JustBeads.com, ( http://www.justbeads.com/ ), made its Internet debut on May 26, 1999, and, in addition to having attracted a talented array of bead artists and enthusiasts, it evolved to include features such as a comprehensive list of upcoming Bead “Shows and Events”, a national directory of local “Bead Societies” and a “Featured Artist of the Month page” to help introduce new bead artists to the beading community.

Happy Beading!