Handmade beaded jewelry by Brap and Manda

Stretchy...Durable...Unique...

We currently don't have an online outlet for braplet sales other than custom designs (eventually we will again), always available by special order (Email us for arrangements/quotes/ideas, whatever. :) We are good at making smiles and many, many braplets have moved through this world as gifts, each one individually imagined as a unique item.

Some background....

Brap started beading in 2000 while staying with former relatives in Texas. It was a very strange thing for him to start doing one day, but being used to doing strange things, the results are now decidedly history in the making. Some sweet girls he worked with in Stephenville (ugh) somehow gave him the idea to string beads. One trip to Wal-Mart later (don't shop there...I had no choice) he had some crappy little beads and some crappy stuff to string them...but everyone starts somewhere. :) That was the one and only time he bought any beads from a Wal_mart.

Quickly, what was an impulse became An Idea- and a very unique one at that. Brap kept getting this way of weaving beads in his head. The third time these ideas surfaced, he went and found some proper stretchy material and dug in. A couple years of this led him to Big Sur, where he has been selling his pretties ever since at Local Color, by The River Inn. Thanks to this wonderful exposure and several thousand 'braplets' later, people all over this fine blue planet have been decorated and are adorned even today.

It's a bit hard to get the idea of a braplet from a picture- it's a tactile thing, really. Properly fitted, there's no other bracelet quite like them. Very unique and truly comfortable, they are real 'comment-grabbers'. Friend-makers. :)

By popular demand (and I do mean demand), Brap started branching out into necklaces and anklets, as well as different kinds of bracelets. He saved the earrings for Manda, though, who showed up in his life around Halloween of 2005. Together, quite a team of jewelry-making folks. :)

You can get a VERY limited view of what we do by visiting this gallery of braplets. The gallery is a collection of past designs and it need be stressed that I do not repeat patterns. If you see something you like, feel free to request something similar and if I have the proper beads, I'll consider the request. Do not treat it like a catalog, though. Please. Thank you. :)