Pearl & Agate Jewellery, a Hong Kong Christmas & Skull Beads
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Pearl & Agate Jewellery,
a Hong Kong Christmas & Skull Beads
To go to the MrBead store
click MrBead.com or
MrBead.co.uk
Still time to order beads for Christmas! For Free Shipping
off anything enter STILLTIME in the box at checkout, and click "Redeem Coupon".
Use NOW - as expires Sunday 15th December 2013. No minimum order, but only
for use at MrBead.com or
MrBead.co.uk and not with other discounts or eBay. For free fast express airmail
(4-days usually), scroll down
for our EMS offer. Orders from Hong Kong after this will be delayed.
However, we can still get beads to you fast, right up to Christmas Eve! For our (limited) bead stock in the UK & eBay click: Mailed from Luton. Orders here should reach you in a couple of days in the UK (but allow longer). Discount vouchers can't be used, but UK P&P is only 99p for most items and we still mail over the holiday.
Free EMS Express Airmail on orders over US200 or
£130
To guarantee your order
arrives in good time, we're offering free express air service. This usually
takes about 4 days - but allow over a week for the Xmas rush. To claim key code
EMS at the checkout at
MrBead.com or MrBead.co.uk. Offer to
Sunday 15th December 2014 only - so order NOW! For use in our store at the
checkout only and not valid for wholesale, for less than above minimum, or with
any other offers.
Thanks to all those who visited us at our UK bead
shows - we'll be back in the spring and longer in Britain next year!
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Pearl & Agate Jewellery
This time of year golden brown jewellery looks great. These pearl and agate chip bead necklaces are on sale in a Norwich jewellery shop for just £35 with their 70% off discount. Very easy and inexpensive to make.
See our Chip Beads:
MrBead.co.uk or
MrBead.com
Our Pearl Beads: MrBead.co.uk
or MrBead.com
Hong Kong Christmas
This
Christmas MiMi and I will be in the UK in Norfolk and Luton - enjoying the cold
with log fires and barrels of real ale (for me at least). If you're in the fine
city of Norwich, we'd love to buy a fellow beader a drink - email or call me on
07831024109.
However, do
you long to escape the cold this time of year? Do you wonder what Christmas is like
in Hong Kong? Well, it aint as you think! The
festive season is best cold – at least frosty outside.
Everyone loves snow, but icy can be beautiful too.
One does not miss something until it’s lost.
Hong Kong is cold this time of year, 10 to 14 degrees, can be more – but with little heating, it feels freezing inside. MiMi and I use an electric blanket. Outside is better, wrapped up and usually dry and sunny. Tinsel and carols are everywhere – but it feels hollow. Merry, not magical - I love a cosy, quaint atmosphere.
Christmas
somewhere hot, like the Philippines is no better. It’s nice to get out of the
cold, but if you live in the Far East, most of the year is scorching.
Mainly were basking in air-con. You see, we can
boil in the sun anytime – Christmas should be different, special.
However, here in Hong Kong we enjoy British festive TV, wine, turkey and mince pies. That’s if you’re a gwelio, a foreign devil. I guess its nostalgia - my friends down under prefer throwing king prawns on a pool-side barbe.
Chinese New Year is more fun - especially as it brightens the New Year lull. In 2014 it’s on January 31st – Year of the Horse. Sure to rock! All about at Year of the Horse.
New trend
Skull
jewellery is still in fashion. Especially with the young, who wear skull rings
on their fingers and hang skull pendants on their bags. The media adds to the
craze with many celebratory discreetly showing skulls. Hot hip hop artists
like King Ice make sure skulls are in by wearing them on expensive shamballa
bracelets.
Buddhism
Originally skull jewellery was only a Tibetan Buddhist thing. Skulls have a
negative context in Western culture, but to Buddhists they remind them to focus
on reaching Nevada. The ultimate rebirth, when one finally escapes the suffering
of terrestrial life - the final goal of their cycles of death and rebirth.
Seeing skulls prevent Buddhists from wasting time building their ego or wealth,
all of which becomes useless upon death.
Gothic
Modern
gothic culture has some similarities to Tibetan or Vajrayana Buddhist. Goths
like to highlight suffering, so as to contrast from living and create an
optimistic outlook. This similarity is rather like the oriental concept of yin
and yang – opposite and constant flowing forces. Increase yin, and yang with
decrease, and vice versa. Likewise, draw attention to death, and life with
become brighter.
Why wear skulls?
To
others, skulls remind that we all have to die. Skulls show that life is not
permanent and are a symbol that we are all flirting with death. In this context
they represent a quest to survive, a reminder to be careful. For the same reason
hot-rodders hang a furry dice inside their cars. A sign of danger.
Rock
Stars
Rebels
Whatever you think, there is no denying that skull jewellery is still big. Just look around to see for yourself.
See our skull bead category at MrBead.com or MrBead.co.uk
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