Bead Trunk Lands In Downtown Urbana, IL

Don't want to deal with the Illinois Marathon this weekend? Don't worry, our Bead Trunk Show Starts This Afternoon.

The show will take place April 26, 27 & 28 and May 3, 4, & 5 in our classroom at the shop.

Fridays, April 26th and May 3rd, we will stay open until 7pm to allow later shopping.

PLEASE NOTE: NO DISCOUNTS allowed on show beads.

Trunk show opens on Friday, April 26th @4pm to 7pm
Saturday, April 27th from 10am to 5pm
Sunday, April 28th from 12noon to 5pm

If you cannot make the show the first weekend, IF we have beads left, you can stop by
Friday, May 3rd @4pm to 7pm
Saturday, May 4th from 10am to 5pm
Sunday, May 5th from 12noon to 5pm

If you've never participated in a bead trunk show, the concept is pretty simple. Think of a traveling bead show where you can find all sorts of treasures, but for a limited time. Cha Cha Beads will ship a huge selection to our shop. When the show is finished, we return whatever beads remain back to Cha Cha.

This enables us to offer you a much larger selection of beads. In the Champaign-Urbana area, you will not find a larger, more complete, or fantastic selection of seed beads than you will find at this show. We hope you will enjoy ChaCha Beads as much as we do.

Beads N Botanicals

117 North Broadway Ave, Urbana, Illinois 61801

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Preview some of our beads for the trunk show.

Chakras, Stones & Energy Healing

Chakras, Stones & Energy Healing teaches the locations of the seven chakras, their functions and the colors associated with each of them. Learn about gemstones and how to use them to harmonize the seven chakras. Experience a chakra layout as well as a meditation to enhance the harmony of your energy system. This class will provide you with the basic tools to keep your energetic body running smoothly. Handouts & Chakra Stone Kit included in the cost of this workshop. Marlita and Elizabeth will teach this class. 

Cost: $56. Preregistration required. NO WALK-INS. Space is available for up to six (6) participants. Call Beads N Botanicals at 217-365-9355 for more details.
Saturday, March 17, 2pm to 5pm
OR Saturday, April 14, 2pm to 5pm

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Earth Day Celebrations: Paper Bead Making, Secrets of Herbal Teas & Tinctures

Beads N Botanicals, 117 N Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801            217-365-9355

Tuesdays: 11am-4:30pm, Wed-Fri: 11am-7pm, Saturdays: 10am-5pm

Earth Day Celebrations:

Recycle, Repurpose, Reuse: Making Paper Beads: Great ways to recycle old magazines and other paper into new art. Basic techniques for making paper beads for jewelry, beaded curtains and more. Cost: $10 per adult; child (age 8 or older) with paying adult, $5, 1 hour, materials included.

Thursday, April 22, DAYTIME LUNCH CLASS: 11:30 am

Secrets of Herbal Teas & Tinctures: Tasty and healthy brews. The differences between a cup of tea, medicinal teas and herbal tinctures. How to prepare a medicinal herb tea. Cost: FREE

Thursday, April 22, 6pm.

Introduction to Wicca and Witchcraft. Modern Pagan Witchcraft, often known as Wicca, is a dynamic balance of worship and magic.  Emerging from the Western Esoteric Tradition in the middle of the twentieth century, the Craft roots itself firmly in the sacredness of the natural world.  Ian Phanes has been a Witch since 1987. Cost: $20 preregistered; $25 at the door.

Saturday, April 24, 1pm

Introduction to Ceremonial Magic. Ian Phanes will teach this class. More details to come. Cost: $20 preregistered; $25 at the door.

Saturday, April 24, 4pm

The Attitude of Gratitude: Learn why adopting an attitude of gratitude is so power and beneficial to personal and spiritual growth and how the simple act of gratitude can change your perspective and your consciousness. Cost: $10.

Wednesday, April 28, 6pm

The Seven Chakras. Learn about the “Wheels of Light,” seven basic energy centers of the body and how they affect our health and well being. Cost: $10
Thursday, April  29, 6pm-7pm

Herbal Medicine Chest and Aromatherapy Workshops coming in May and June

More details to come

Making a Wand for Healing and Focus: Work with crystals, wood and other natural materials to make a wand that you can use to focus your intent for positive changes in your life and surroundings. All materials provided (although you can feel free to bring special crystals or other decorative materials. Cost: $25 pre-registered by April 24, $35 at the door and after April 24

Saturday, May 1, 1pm to 3pm

Updated Schedule of Classes and Events At Beads N Botanicals in Urbana

The Sole Experience…Foot Reflexology with Marlita: Not a class, but an opportunity for you to pamper yourself. This special type of foot massage is available by appointment (recommended) or walk-in. Reiki Healing Sessions also available.  Cost: $65 per hour; $35 per half hour. Time: Noon to 5 pm.

Wednesday, February 17, 12noon-5pm

Wednesday, March 3, 12noon-5pm

Wednesday, March 17, 12noon-5pm

Scents & Scentsuality. The use of botanicals to make oneself more attractive to members of the opposite sex goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. The art of perfumery entices and delights many people. Learn about its secrets--scents that influence passion, acting as catalysts to amore. Cost: $10.

Saturday, February 6, 11am

Laughter Club.  Laughter as exercise? Burn calories? Yes, they are both true and more. Laughter has been proven to improve your immune system,improve brain function and decrease stress hormones. Come join Debra Joy Hart RN, certified laughter leader in monthly laughter exercises. No joke telling involved and guaranteed to improve your mind-body-spirit connection. Cost: $10 each session. Time: 6-7pm  1st  Thursday of the month
Thursday, February  4, 6pm

Thursday, March  4, 6pm

Basic Wire Working: How to Make Earrings: A great starter class! You'll make two pairs of earrings. Please Note: This class is a pre-requisite for our Wire-Wrapping Pendants class. Cost: $15, 1 hour, materials included.

Saturday, February 6,  2pm.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 DAYTIME LUNCH CLASS: 11:30 am.

The Four Agreements Part 1. Wisdom from the Toltecs for personal empowerment.  This class is the beginning of a four-part series.  Each class discusses and explains one of the Four Agreements.  Learn what the agreements are and how to use them to shift your perspective in every day life and gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others. Each class is independent of the next - however, all four agreements build a stronger foundation for this expansive and enlightening experience. The first class addresses the power of words and the effects words have on yourself and others. Cost: $10
 Wednesday, February  3, 6pm

 Meditative Music Lounge. Music has the innate power to quiet, inspire, and invite our connection with our soul. Music can open the heart when words cannot. Come explore musical meditations.  Cost: $10/session. Time: 6pm-7 pm,  2nd Thursday of the month.  
Thursday, February  11, 6pm

Thursday, March  11, 6pm

  

Decorate Your Own Smudge Feather. This workshop will enable you to embelish your own personal smudge feather.  You will make a handle, wrap it and decorate your feather. Feather care will be discussed as well as instruction on how to use your feather.  Basic materials are included.  Cost: $25  

Saturday, February 13, 1pm-3pm

Working with Angels. Angels are the closest beings to humans.  They can only help us if we ask.  This class teaches you how to establish a "heart link" with any angel to help you heal or accomplish a goal.

Cost : $10

Saturday, February 13, 5pm

 The Four Agreements, Part II. Wisdom from the Toltecs for personal empowerment.  The second part in a four- part series. Each class discusses and explains one of the Four Agreements.  Learn what the agreements are and how to use them to shift your perspective in every day life and gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others. Each class is independent of the next.The second agreement  helps us understand how to deal with others and to avoid the trap of giving up our personal power. Cost: $10

Wednesday, February  17, 6pm

Introduction to Wicca and Witchcraft. Modern Pagan Witchcraft, often known as Wicca, is a dynamic balance of worship and magic.  Emerging from the Western Esoteric Tradition in the middle of the twentieth century, the Craft roots itself firmly in the sacredness of the natural world.  Ian Phanes has been a Witch since 1987. Cost: $20 preregistered; $25 at the door.

Wednesday, February  24, 6pm

Weekend Event : You’re invited to attend: The Spiritual Buffet. Finding and honoring your own divinity is the key to inner peace. Searching for your ingredients for a nourishing spiritual practice?The Spiritual Buffet offers a sampling of ‘flavors’ to help you create your own recipe for a nourishing integrative spiritual practice. Cost:  $120.  This includes both Friday and Saturday seatings, a vegan lunch on Saturday, snacks, a set of archetypal energy cards, and all collage supplies to create a personal place mat / altar, (so your soul knows it always has a place at your table.)
Happy Hour: Friday night, Feb 26, 5:45-8:00 pm    Exploring Archetypal energies.Introductory discussion of archetypal energies and how these energies influence how you pray, meditate and play.
All Day Buffet: Saturday, Feb 27  10am – 4pm

To reserve your place at the table, call  Beads and Botanicals, 217-365-9355. For information about the buffet, call Karen Gottlieb 217-377-5271 or email her at meditationarts@gmail.com  “Chef” Karen Gottlieb is certified in Archetypal Analysis by the CMED Institute.

The Four Agreements Part III. Wisdom from the Toltecs for personal empowerment.   Each class discusses and explains one of the Four Agreements.  Learn what the agreements are and how to use them to shift your perspective in every day life and gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others. Each class is independent of the next.. The third agreement teaches the importance of eliminating the habit of presuming what will happen with a particular person or situation.

Cost: $10

Wednesday, March 3, 6pm

Introduction to Stone-Reading.  Divining by stones--also called lithomancy or sortilege--is an ancient form of divination. The class will cover basic principles of divination, and show how to apply those principles with a simple bag of stones. This class will include opportunities for us to perform mini-readings for each other. Ian Phanes has been reading stones for over fifteen years. Cost: $20 pre-registered; $25 at the door.

Wednesday March 10, 6:00 pm

The Four Agreements Part IV. Wisdom from the Toltecs for personal empowerment.  The fourth class comes back to the self - how to become kinder to yourself and shift self-critisim into self love. A very powerful learning experience. Cost: $10

Wednesday, March 17, 6pm

Psychic & Health Fair:

Saturday, March  27, 2010
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Come and get a reading with the best readers in the Champaign Urbana area.
Readings include, Clairvoyant readings, Energy Art Readings™, Archetypal readings,  Psychic readings & Tarot Readings, Foot Massage, Reiki, Reflexology and more.

Cost: $20 per 15 minute reading. Longer sessions available

Psychic & Health Fair Jan 23 in Champaign Urbana Central Illinois

Psychic & Health Fair:
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Come and get a reading with the best readers in the Champaign Urbana area.
Readings include, Clairvoyant readings, Energy Art Readings™, Archetypal readings,  Psychic readings & Tarot Readings, Foot Massage, Reiki, Reflexology and more.

Cost: $20 per 15 minute reading. Longer sessions available

Location: Beads N Botanicals

117 North Broadway Ave

 Urbana, IL 61801

   217-365-9355

Understanding Archetypal Energies at Beads N Botanicals, Urbana, IL

Understanding Archetypal Energies: How do you make the choices for your life?

Four sessions: July 8, 15, 22 & 29. 6 pm.

at Beads N Botanicals in Urbana, IL

217-365-9355

to pre-register

What energies do you bring to the choices you make? The choices you make and the energies you bring to them are clues to your innate archetypal energies. One way to look at archetypes is as behavioral energy patterns--the instinctual ways you respond to people and events in your life. They influence the roles you play in each of your life's dramas.

Every person is born with their own personal mix of archetypal energies. By identifying and learning to live in alignment with your archetypes, you can explore how to live life in a way that does not compromise the beauty and power of your spirit. Discover the treasure of you. Explore the energy of your child, victim, saboteur, artist, seeker, goddess, warrior, storyteller, martyr, addict, athlete, judge, hero, coward, hermit, damsel, knight, mother & more.

Instructor Karen Gottlieb completed both the Sacred Contracts program of archetypal study and Entering the Castle of Your Soul taught by Caroline Myss, CMED Institute. Cost: $100 pre-paid by July 1^st; $125 thereafter. Four sessions: July 8, 15, 22 & 29. 6 pm. Archetypal Cards will be available for purchase.

Introduction to Palm Reading in Champaign Urbana Illinois

Introduction to Palm Reading

Sioux Bowling has been reading palms since she was four years old. Over the years she has read many people's palms in Illinois, Indiana and surrounding areas. She is an incredible lady who is extremely compassionate as well as amazingly knowledgeable.

I felt privileged to host her as a palm reader at our recent Psychic & Health Fair here in Urbana. And am very excited that she has agreed to teach here at Beads N Botanicals.

Sioux is offering an introduction to palmistry.

If you have ever wanted to learn about how your life story can be read in your hands, this is an opportunity you will want to seize! (If there is enough interest, Sioux may teach ongoing classes in palmistry. But this is NOT a guarantee.)

The workshop will be held from 11 a.m. to 12 noon

Saturday, May 9

at Beads N Botanicals
117 North Broadway Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
217-365-9355

COST: $20 if prepaid by May 2nd
$25 per person after May 2 and at the door.

Sioux will also be available by appointment for readings starting at 12:30 p.m.
Cost for readings is $35 per half hour, $65 per hour.

If you are interested in an appointment with Sioux, register at Beads N Botanicals as soon as possible as the number of appointments available are extremely limited. Thank you.

Experience palm readings and more at this weekend's Psychic and Health Fair

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Experience palm readings and more at this weekend's Psychic and Health Fair

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Swarovski™ Crystal Butterflies Fly into Central Illinois' Beads N Botanicals Shop

Calling all beaders in Central Illinois!

We are still sorting through the new bead shipment that arrived last week here at Beads N Botanicals in Urbana, IL.

As promised, I did get the new Swarovski™ crystals out in the front case. We’ve brought in more 8mm bicones (as well as an assortment of other sizes), some rounds and rondelles, as well as some new colors.

Highlights include Swarovski™ Crystal Butterflies in all their available sizes: 5mm, 6mm, 8mm and 10mm. Bright, shimmery butterflies to adorn earrings, bracelets and necklaces. By the way, the latest fashion trends are featuring butterfly accents in clothing, furniture, and jewelry designs.

If you have never seen the Swarovski™ Crystal Cantaloupe beads, you need to stop by and check them out. We ordered a small selection of bicone, cube and round crystal beads in this color. With Cantaloupe beads, you get three colors in one. In one type of light, the crystals appear a light green. In another type of light, the beads appear clear to pale grey in color. Shift your lighting once more, and the crystals have a peachy cantaloupe color. Not only are these colors among the fashion colors for the upcoming Spring/Summer 2009 fashion season, they are also hot colors for the Fall/Winter 2009 fashion scene. Never mind that they are just a neat crystal to work with.

As always here at the Beads N Botanicals shop, you can select as few as one Swarovski™ Crystal bead for a project or a 100 Swarovski™ crystals. The choice is yours.

More Herbs at Beads N Botanicals

We've been getting a lot of requests for different herbs, some of which are harder to find locally than others. Recently, Beads N Botanicals brought in Marshmallow root.

Next week we will also have Bloodroot, Pipsissawa, Oregon Grape Root, Organically grown Chicory Root and a very potent Organically grown powdered ginger root from Hawaii.

Stop by and check out all the herbs. We've got lots more than what's listed here.

Beads N Botanicals is the Place for Valentine's Day Gifts for Her or Him

Want to give your Valentine something special?

If you are looking for a more traditional Valentine's Day gift, Beads N Botanicals offers unscented and custom scented massage oils, body lotions and organic hand creme. Add some votive candles in a few holders, some All Night Long incense and soft music and you have the beginning of a very romantic evening.

Or think about a beautiful gemstone necklace. Or a pearl necklace with Swarovski crystals. Grace her with a bracelet or several pairs of earrings.

We have gifts for every budget, from body jewelry to wire-wrapped pendants, real flower pendants, books and yoga mats.

Remember the beader in your family with beads, jewelry making tools or even a GIFT CERTIFICATE if you are not sure what to pick out.

Thinking more along Gothic lines? We also have black silk roses and dead roses. Goes against the grain but suits some folks with a sense of adventure (as well as a sense of humor).