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

View Map · Get Directions

Preview some of our beads for the trunk show.

Miro Stefanovic from Serbia wins PortoCartoon 2013, Portugal

Miro Stefanovic, from Serbia, was the winner of Grand Prize of the 15th PortoCartoon-World Festival, organized by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, under the theme "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity". The winning work is entitled "Shipwreck" (See top).
The second prize – “Atrapados” (Trapped) was awarded to Boligan, an artist from Cuba living in México, and the third – Libertea” - to Wilem Rasing, from Holland.
The quality of the works, led the international jury to award 8 Honourable Mentions to artists from different countries, such as: Belgium (two), England, Israel, Poland, Romania (two) and Ukraine:
Lucv Descheemaeker - Belgium, "Dilemma"
Luc Vernimmen - Belgium, untitled
Mahmoudi Houmayoun, England, "Liberty"
Alex Bartfeld - Israel, "Libre"
Pawel Stanczyk - Poland, "Liberty Equality Fraternity"
Julian Pena-pai, Romania, "Opening Ceremony"
Mihai Ignat, Romania, untitled
Vladimir Kazanevsky, Ucrania, untitled.
This year's edition included two special awards in tribute to the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira (which this year will be 105 years old) and to the Nobel Prize José Saramago. The winners were respectively Mauricio Parra, from Colombia, and Ivan Prado, an author born in Peru and living in Germany.
In appreciation were 1700 works from more than 500 artists coming from all continents. Iran is the country with more participation: 121 works from 41 cartoonists, followed by Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Portugal and Belgium.
The international jury of 15th PortoCartoon was chaired by by Peter Nieuwendijk, President-General of Feco (Netherlands) and integrated Xaquin Marín, founder of the Museum of Humor Fene (Spain), Francisco Laranjo, director of the Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto and Luis Humberto Marcos, director of PortoCartoon and the Portuguese Printing Press Museum.
Winning cartoons on source: cartoonvirtualmuseum.org.

Gentleman Psy Wallpapers HD Photo

"Gentleman" is the 19th K-pop single by South Korean musician PSY released on April 12, 2013 (KST). It is the follow-up to his international hit single "Gangnam Style", which at the time of "Gentleman"'s release had been viewed on YouTube over 1.5 billion times. The first public performance of the song, with its associated dance, was unveiled at 6:30 pm on April 13 at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul. A poster and Twitter message was released containing the main line of the song "I'm a mother fxxxxx gentleman"; the word was later revealed to be "father".

Man of Steel Movie Wallpapers

Man of Steel is surely an upcoming American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder, created by Christopher Nolan, and scripted by David S. Goyer. Depending on the DC Comics character Superman, the film will be a reboot from the Superman film series, portraying the character's origin story. The film stars Henry Cavill within the title role, with Can Be as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, and Russell Crowe as Jor-El. Man of Steel will even launch a shared fictional universe of DC Comics characters on film.

Iron Man 3 Movies Wallpapers

Iron Man 3 is a 2013 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.1 It is the sequel to Iron Man and Iron Man 2, and the seventh installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, being the first major release in the franchise since the crossover film The Avengers. Shane Black directed a screenplay he co-wrote with Drew Pearce, which is based on the "Extremis" story arc by Warren Ellis. Jon Favreau, who directed the first two films, serves as executive producer, along with Kevin Feige. Robert Downey, Jr. reprises his role as the title character, with Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, and Favreau reprising their roles as Pepper Potts, James Rhodes, and Happy Hogan, respectively. Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale, and Ben Kingsley round out the film's principal cast.

DCMF announces winners of World Press Freedom Cartoon Contest 2013

To mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Doha Centre for Media Freedom organised a cartoon competition depicting the theme “Media Freedom” to honour the bravery and creativity of courageous cartoonists around the world.
DCMF received more than 200 entries from 47 countries for its inaugural DCMF World Press Freedom Cartoon Contest.

WINNERS
(From top down):
Alby Letoy - 1st prize winner- Cash prize of $1500
Hani Abbas - 2nd prize winner- Cash prize of $1000
Abdel Naser Z.M. Al-Jafari - 3rd prize winner- Cash prize of $800.
JURY:
Jan Keulen, Director of DCMF
Ali Ferzat, cartoonist (Syria)
Shujaat Ali, cartoonist, Al Jazeera Network
Mohammed Abdullateef, cartoonist (Qatar), Al Raya newspaper
Robert Russell, Executive Director of the Cartoonists Rights Network International.

DCMF will host all the winners of the contest during the World Press Freedom Celebrations on May 1 in Doha. Apart from the the top three winners, the jury has nominated 25 cartoons that will be showcased in a cartoon exhibition on May 1.
Source: http://www.dc4mf.org/en/content/dcmf-announces-winners-world-press-freedom-cartoon-contest.

Latest Indian Makeup Tips for Bridal

When chirpy audience Annie had written to me asking for some guidance on her cosmetics for her future marriage, I was beyond excited to discuss what I realized with her. Now, I am not wedded yet, but many of my buddies have been and I have discovered a lot from their marriage cosmetics problems. This is what I had written to Annie…I wish it allows other marriage women.

When you study it you will see that I discuss moisture a lot, that because I have tried to aim this for marriage brides engaged and planning a marriage in summer season / stormy year in Indian. Again, all this is just my viewpoint, something that I think I would do if I were to get wedded. Please you can discuss your guidelines and techniques to help other marriage brides look their best on one of the most important times of their lifestyles.
Before you start applying makeup run an ice cube all over your exfoliated face and neck. It helps with the pores, makes you feel fresh.Invest in a great concealer and an under eye brightener. I personally think a great concealer is much more important than foundation.
Use MAC Strobe Cream / Clinique Uplighting Liquid Illuminator under your foundation. Alternatively you could also mix it with your foundation and apply all your face and neck. An alternate to it would be the
Glow is the key word here – not shimmery, not shiny and definitely not plain matte. So, get a highlighter to highlight your cheeks, bridge of your nose, forehead and chin. This should give you the glow you yearn for  They fill in the lines on your lips giving a more full appearance. Apart from this your lips will look great in pictures because any shimmery/shiny gloss reflects better on a smooth surface.

Latest Kurta Pajama Designs For Men 2013

Latest New Summer Collection 2013 For Women by Pinkstich

Pinkstich Newest Summer time Springtime Selection 2013
Pinkstich is a popular style product of pakistan style market.Pinkstich outlit that is making its customer the best and stylish dresse from various years.It provides women the clothing that are collection 2013 contains some strong colors long tops which include Light red,Red,Black,Yellow,white and many other loving colors.
As regular Pinkstich has included flairs of intraicate embroidering elements on these summer season clothing providing all these new style clothing for ladies a high amount of funkiness and elegant look style ulimate elegant reduces in this selection so that women of all age categories can find style clothing of their choice for this selection.We have distributed images of Pinkstich new summer year selection 2013 which will mesmerise you at first look, get ready to take finish trip of these eye taking summer year outfits which will reviv your style declaration for summer year months and do add them in your clothing selection if you are in taking the publish light interest.Have a Look at…..

Results of the 8th International Cartoon Contest SYRIA 2013

Theme: We love life... No more blood
321 artist from 67 countries participated in the contest.
THE JURY
Jiang Lidong, China
Julian Pena-pai, Romania
Kifah Al Reefi, Iraq/Holand
Morhaf Youssef, Syria.
WINNERS:
First Prize: Grigoris Georgiou, Greece (Top)
Second Prize: Haibat Ahmadi, Iran
Third Prize: Ikhsan Dwiono, Indonesia
Special Prize: Mello, Brazil
Special Prize: Li Kui Jun, China.
All prize-winning cartoons here.

Latest Watches by Versace for Women 2013

Time for pure luxury – if you can afford it!! If you’re one of those women who are just crazy about watches, and you can appreciate a valuable watch whenever you spot it, then this new collection of Versace watches for women can’t just pass by without checking it out! In this post, we’re showing you these amazing Versace watches for 2013 that are no ordinary watches, in everything. The colors, the tones, the totally unique dials, and the amazing logo make these watches your way to a fancy look and style. These watches have steep prices, but that’s because of the high-end materials they are made of, and of course because they’re Versace!! Looking at the designs makes you want to have them all; each one is just suitable for a certain occasions, and each color holds a different beauty other than the rest.

If you want some informal items for those morning trips, you will find completely simple items that have clay or set wristbands. While if you want something appropriate for a celebration or a evening event, then you should definitely select the ones with strasses or guys all around the switch, or those ones that are all in silver. Some of these watches have the Medusa go on their calls, some have the Versace company brand, and some have none. Now for some completely exclusive items, examine out the item that has a Hibiscus plant and results in on its switch, or the one that has aqua blue and yellow-colored tulip glasses on the switch with a white-colored wristbands for that amazing pop of shades. There is no way you are not going to really like these careful timepieces!!