Lynn Firth
Director

Lynn is always searching for new products and exciting beads to introduce to our range.  She is also actively teaching and designing her own range of beadwork kits.

Kevin Firth
Director

Kevin is responsible for the financial and strategic side of the Company.  He gave up his corporate job 5 years ago to help Lynn with the business.

Alan Cooper
Operations Manager

Alan is responsible for ordering, stock movement and control. Alan is also used to needle and thread as he used to be a pattern cutter! 

Mary Nicholls
Warehouse Assistant

Mary is responsible for organising the day to day packaging of our beads, crystals, shop stock, etc.  If we get near her Swarovski stock we get our wrists slapped!

Emily Hurd
Retail Assistant

Emily helps covering for staff holidays and busy periods and is a keen beader. She is currently studying floristry at Kingston Maurwood college.

Pam Cooper
Retail Assistant

Pam is one of our retail team and has a wealth of knowledge in beadwork and embroidery and is also a qualified tutor.  She is Chairman of the South West Region of the Embroiderers Guild.

Lucy Andrews
Showroom Manager

Lucy likes to knit and bead enjoying both off loom techniques and bead stringing and can also be found helping with the Young Embroiderers Group at Bradford Abbas.  She is also a tap dancer and working towards her Gold Bar Level 3 medal.

Anne Forsey
Retail Assistant

Anne was formerly a primary school teacher but is having a change as "beads are a lot quieter". She has had a serious craft addiction since childhood when she would drag her parents into craft shops at any opportunity......now she finds herself working in one!

Jane Thompson
Retail Assistant

Jane loves embroidery and patchwork and has passed her City & Guilds certificate in Patchwork and Quilting.  She also loves tassel making and various other handicrafts.

Jill Gustar
Retail Assistant

Jill is always dabbling in something crafty, from dressmaking and knitting, to embroidery and beading.

Julia Hall
Retail Assistant

Julia loves to knit and is extremely knowledgeable in this area.  She is also an avid beader and wears many of her creations.

Janet McCallum
Retail Assistant

Janet is a textile artist and graphic designer and also turns her hand to beading now and again.  She is the designer of The Quilter magazine for The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles and is also a keen tap dancer.