One of the things you need to think about when you are selling beads is what kind of packaging you will use to get your beads to your customers in one piece.

At a bead-forum-meeting last year I received a swapbead from Dorith, wich she put in a lovely tiny handmade origamibox. Ofcourse at home I had to figure out how this was made and when I was shopping in Amsterdam a few days later, I bought myself some origami paper in a Japanese store. I started making these boxes and thought it would be a nice way to package my Gardian Angel beads.

Well to be honest I thought it would be nice to use similar boxes for my other beads as well, but since origamipaper isn't cheap I didn't concider it to be an real option because spending that much on packaging would mean spending less on glass and I guess you are able to figure out what I prefer to spend my money on...

Anyway since I also have a part-time job as a secretary and I am the one to open all snailmail, a while back it hit me. Looking inside the envelopes I discovered the're not all boring grey. Sometimes compagnies use envelopes with lovely colors like green, blue and red inside and sometimes they even have nice patterns. So that's when I decided to cut those not so boring envelopes and recycle them into nice boxes... Taadaa....