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Store Spotlight: Sedona Stones

Written by Miva | Jun 3, 2009

Located in Phoenix, Arizona, Sedona Stones is an intrepid leader in the online world of wholesale beads.  They carry a diverse collection of beads, gemstones, pendants and beading accessories at factory direct prices.  The goal of Sedona Stones is to pass the savings on to the customer.  Their website is designed to help the novice beader or an expert crafter, who thrives on the organic creativity that beading breeds.

For seven years Sedona Stones has been selling their quality beads over the internet.  They developed a user friendly site for their customers and employees.  As their business grew, the size and usability of their website increased.  Customers can switch orders, view the hundreds of beading products they carry and communicate their needs effectively to the team at Sedona Stones.  These facets have helped them grow into one of the best wholesale bead retailers around.

Sedona Stones sells bulk wholesale beads to resellers along with arts and crafts enthusiasts but you don’t have to order in bulk to save big.  The copious styles of beads available are used to create homemade jewelry.  Glass beads, the standard in arts and crafts, are available in dozens of colors with several hand sculpted designs.  This includes lamp work, teardrop and star sculpted beads.  The store also carries coral beads, in colors such as red, shades of green and blends of purple and blue.  Turquoise beads are a particularly popular product at the website.  They are sold in both bead and pendant form.  The pendants are great accessories to place on a necklace or bracelet, bringing out a stronger fashion in the wearer.

Beyond the beads sold at the website, Sedona Stones also carry accessories to complete jewelry pieces.  Clasps that connect necklaces, anklets or bracelets can easily be added to an order.  They also sell beading wire at conveniently low costs.   Making their online store a one-stop shop for any beading needs.  The site has manuals for jewelry designs and bead patterns.  Simpler designs like the Zulu, Single Daisy and V-Shape stitch are ready for the novice bead worker.  These manuals include diagrams that are easy to follow.  Also found on the manual page of the website is more complicated designs for the expert beader.  These complex patterns are comprised of the flower stitch and spiral beading design.  Both of these are intricate pieces that breathe new life into the creative process of beading.

Friendliness and customer service is the name of the game at Sedona Stones.  With the customer in mind, the website is easy to navigate and accompanied with a helpful FAQ and company information page, ensuring complete satisfaction.  Customers can call beading experts who will answer any questions on orders, types of beads and difficulties that may arise from attempting a bead pattern.  Jeanie, a beader from Tennessee said, “Here [Sedona Stones] you will find a huge selection of beads ranging from wholesale metal beads and findings, to gemstones in every size, shape and color.  The fast shipping coupled with polite and knowledgeable employees make Sedona Stones the ultimate beading supply company.”

Darla, one of the operators of the website, acknowledges Miva Merchant’s software as a driving force in her company’s success.  “Miva Merchant’s software assisted us in developing our website.  As we grew their design team made our site professionally fluid, user friendly and searchable.  We can’t forget the SEO team, who has helped improve our organic search results.”

The simplicity of the site combined with their competitively low prices makes Sedona Stones a premier beading distributor for glass beads, precious stones, coral and pearl beads.  Broaden your artistic horizons by heading over to Sedona Stones for some fantastic jewelry making supplies.

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