Some custom hoops..

Hello everyone! Happy Friday.. the weekend is here!

While I am sitting here at work waiting for an assay to finish, I thought I would post a few photos of some custom hoops I have recently cranked out.

The above two hoops were purchased for an Ohio State fan.  Can you tell from the colors?  Hah!

The above two hoops were purchased as Christmas presents for two beginner hoopers.

This hoop was made for a girl headed to South America!  I have since added this hoop to the etsy shop.  It is called retro rainbow.  

This hoop was created for Lauren Lionheart, a hooper and visionary artist from Florida.  You can check out her website here!  http://www.facebook.com/laurenlionheart and http://www.laurenlionheart.com.  I may add this hoop to the shop in the near future... named after Lauren, of course :)

I am always excited about custom work.  Shoot me an email at bethnouveau@gmail.combethnouveau@gmail.com if you would like a completely customized taped or LED hoop!! There is also a listing for a custom hoop in my etsy shop.

Have a beautiful weekend, everyone!

A few hoop tutorials for you all :)

Happy happy new year everyone!!!

I hope your winter has been productive and peaceful.  I have been using the time to go within and rest.

I have also made a couple youtube hoop tutorials I would love to share.

The first tutorial depicts how to open and close a figure 8 collapsible hoop.  All of my regular hula hoops are figure 8 collapsible and sometimes customers are confused as to how to open and close them.  If they are improperly collapsed, they can be kinked.  Once kinked, they will never be perfect again.  You cannot permanently remove a kink or crease.




I wish I had recorded the video with the audio turned up... or with an audio overlay.  I know it is kind of difficult to hear.


The second hoop tutorial depicts how to downsize a push button polypro hoop at home!  As a hooper we often outgrow our hoops and are forced to buy new ones.  This tutorial alleviates that burden, as you can downsize your polypro at home in less than 30 minutes with minimal tools or expertise.  I use this technique myself  when I want to downsize.




I have really enjoyed making these tutorials :)  Maybe in the future I will make some hoop trick tutorials :)  If you have something you want me to make a tutorial for, by all means let me know!!

Happy Sunday everyone.  Much love to you wherever you are.


xo

SALE SALE SALE!

Happy thanksgiving everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday surrounded by friends and family.  My holiday was very restful and I am very thankful for it.  My body and mind needed the break.  I caught up on some much needed rest and I feel energized!!!!

I have decided to mark down several items in my shop that are ALREADY MADE and READY TO SHIP in an effort to clear my inventory out.  I am ready to craft some new items and the old ones need to go!!!  I am also running another special:

The free shipping coupon is good in both of my etsy shops, bethnouveau for handmade feather jewelry and accessories, or sacredspiralz for custom taped hula hoops, polypro hoops, or custom LED hoops!!

Here are some of the sale items available at bethnouveau right now!

For those hoopers out there, I also have lime green polypro hoops on sale as well!!!  $22 for a 5/8" OD UV reactive polypro hoop!  This is the absolute cheapest anywhere online!!  And you can use free shipping as well!!   Just use coupon FREESHIP at  sacredspiralz ...  This coupon will only be active for a few days, so grab it while you can!!

Thank all of you for your business.. I am so blessed to call myself an artist.  Enjoy your upcoming week!

xo  beth

A little summer sale for you!!

Hello everyone! I apologize that I have been so quiet lately. I recently moved to a new residence and that pretty much took every ounce of strength and energy that I had. After a month of recovery and putting all my ducks in a row, I am back in full force!

I have some exciting projects and collaborations coming up. I will be designing a new line in the next two weeks and having another professional photo shoot with a local photographer. ...

I love love love trading skills and have the opportunity to design a couple LED hoops for friends. In return, I am getting an incredible handmade macrame necklace from my friend Jess of Anthropologica jewelry... Now this is not the hippie hemp macrame you might be thinking of.. Jess makes incredible traditional macrame pieces with precious stones. I am also getting a Muse dress from Niko at 2611 clothing. I recently reviewed the 2611 designs in a previous post.

I also recently formed a hoop troupe with four other incredible ladies in Greenville, SC called the Cirque Spin Tribe. We recently performed on Fox Carolina News and will be performing at the prestigious Beach Ball Foundation Benefit that takes place in late August. We have been choreographing and hooping like mad in preparation for these performances!! There will be 2 LED and one fire performance... more details will be posted soon :)

In any case, that's where I have been.... I figured I would run a little sale to kick off the return of BethNouveau with a 20% off coupon good in my etsy shop. The coupon code is 20OFF and is good on ANYTHING. I will only keep it up for a week, so hurry if you want to use it!

Have a lovely weekend and keep your eyes peeled for future updates..

xox

beth

Some hooparific new hula hoops in my etsy store!!

Hello everyone,

I hope you have had a fabulous weekend.  I have decided to postpone the post about my new earrings for a few days.  The weather here has not been conducive to taking photographs... so that post will come in a few days.

It did occur to me today that I haven't posted any of my new hoops for sale.  These are available in my etsy shop, dystructiondesigns.  I can also design any custom hoop that your mind can imagine, if you email me.  I have several colors of vinyl, gaffer, and sparkle tape.  All of my hoops coil down for travel and are guaranteed to not come apart while hooping.  I design all my hoops so that the gaffer tape is placed slightly over the edges of the sparkle tape, which extends the life of the hoop from chips and tears.

I named this hoop chakra power, due to its roygbivp glitter tape pattern.  I love how the rainbow colors blend together when you hoop with it.  The black tape is super grippy gaffer tape.

This hoop is named flowbot and features teal blue sparkle tape covered with black gaffer tape.  Also very grippy and made to last.

This pretty hoop is named bubblegum and features silver sparkle tape with light pink and purple gaffer tape.

This hoop is named arrrrrr due to the jolly roger skulls flag design.  This is the grippiest hoop I sell.  The jolly roger hockey tape is the grippiest of all tapes.   It is overlaid with hot pink and white gaffer.  This is an excellent hoop for beginners.  Gaffer and hocky tape are less likely to rip than vinyl or glitter tape.

I also started designing mini hoops!  Minis are a lot of fun to play with, especially if you're in a rut hooping with a single hoop.

This set of two hoops is called dragonfly twins.  They feature pink or purple mirror tape covered with teal gaffer tape.  The mirror tape makes the hoop almost appear made of chrome metal, since it is so smooth and reflective.

These rainbow twins feature all colors of the rainbow in both glitter and gaffer tape.  These are so pretty, as the rainbow colors blur into each other when moving.

i love these so much I have to post a second photo.

 

Mini hoops can be made at almost any diameter you wish.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!  Happy hooping..

xox

New Customer Photos added to the gallery!

Hello all,

I have been a busy busy bee, designing some new earrings that will debut this week, and creating a gorgeous LED hoop for my friend and hoop performer, Sea Jae.  You can take a gander at some of her performances here.   She photographed many of the photos in my gallery.  I can't wait to post some pictures and a video of the new hoop!  I will be selling custom LED hoops in my etsy hoop shop soon.

I also added some customer photos to the gallery.  I am fortunate to know both of these gals, who were sweet enough to send me some photos!  If you have some earrings from my shop, feel free to email me the photos at bethnouveau@gmail.com and I will add them to the gallery!

This is Alexis of ak47designs on etsy.  She designs gorgeous yarn falls.  I will be blogging about her shop soon!!

This is the gorgeous Lauren, who happens to be an incredible aeralist!  I love her dermals!

I hope all of you have a wonderful Monday and great week.  I will be posting photos of the new stuff soon!

Hooray for Spring!

Spring has sprung, and here in South Carolina that means the heat is on.  Temperatures here have been in the mid-to upper 80's now for a few weeks and I'm already dreading the sweltering misery that summer will bring.

I have been furiously knitting away at a crossover cardigan featured in Noro Knits a few years ago.

It is a cross between Myrtle....

And Butterfly...

It is basically the butterfly sweater bottom lengthened to myrtle length with the myrtle hood and sleeves.  So far it looks great!  I have completely finished the body and hood and I'm working on the sleeves. 

Here's a shot of me blocking the body

In other news, I have been creating some hoops for my shop, dystruction designs... There are some really pretty hoops on there, but my favorite one is this rainbow glitter and gaffer tape hoop:

I really didn't want to sell hoops, but considering the sheer cost of buying tape to make myself some, I have decided to casually list some on etsy to pay for the supplies.  Hoop tape isn't cheap, as I am discovering!

My hooping has come a long way since the fall.  Lately I have been working on reversals, knee and one legged hooping, and incorporating more dance into my hooping style.  Here's a shot of me one legged hooping.

I have also been playing with FIRE too :) :)  Which is extremely exhilirating!

As far as bethnouveau goes, I finally got around to making some new designs last month and have been slowly listing them on etsy.

The super long grizzly rooster feather fad is starting to tone down a bit, which is nice, because those feathers are impossible to find, especially in purple and blue.  I do have a few colors left, but those are flying out the door!

Some of my new designs: 

Vamped Out - Super Long Bright Red Grizzly Rooster Feather Wire Wrapped Earrings

Limon - Super Long Green and Yellow Grizzly Rooster Feather Wire Wrapped Earrings

Serengeti - Blonde, White and Tan Copper Wire Wrapped Earrings

Blanca - White Peacock Feather Fringed Earrings.

All of these can be found in the shop!

Thanks for reading, enjoy your week everyone! xox