Added: Aug 16, 2009
From: softflexgirl
Duration: 2:44
Recorded on August 15, 2009 at Rings & Things in Spokane, WA. I was invited to demo Soft Flex products for their anniversary sale. Rings & Things History: In 1972, Ring's & Things' owner Russ Nobbs opened a tiny retail jewelry store in Spokane, Washington, after several years selling handmade gold-wire name pins and beady earrings at state fairs around the Pacific Northwest. The original Rings & Things shop was situated in an old downtown building that had been renovated as a mall run by artists, musicians, crafters and restauranteurs. The original store's filigree and bead earrings were soon joined by handcrafted sterling silver jewelry, followed by beads ... and a whole lot more. A few years later, we added a mail-order print catalogsto our operations. When the arts mall was slated to be torn down to build a bank, all branches of Rings & Things our fine-crafts gallery "The Jeweler's Bench," our retail bead store and our wholesale division moved to a nearby skywalk level mall. We ran the retail store and mail-order business simultaneously for several years. But, in 2000, the retail store closed, freeing up resources for our wholesale mail-order business to expand — Rings & Things was becoming a wholesale resource for the nation, and the world! In 2005, having long outgrown our mail-order digs on the 9th floor of a downtown department-store building, we bought our own warehouse. In our new home we're still growing, thanks to you!
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Rating: 5.0' max='5' min='1' numRaters='1' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall ( ratings) Views: 365 Comments: 3
CreativeStash Says:
Sep 15, 2009 - Tons of beads! wow!!!
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
optimatordave Says:
Aug 29, 2009 - Hi Sara, thanks so much for posting this video of Rings & Things' "big day" :) Nice footage, really clear - - gives an idea of some of the zillions of beads on sale. I like how you stopped to admire the giant amber trade beads, one of my favorites of all time too! Did you video any of the demo areas? --Dave at Rings & Things