about us

I started Smitten in 2002 initially making cushions, wall hangings and other items for the home, after a fantastic response to my first venture at the Bath Christmas market I introduced our women’s accessories range and opened our first shop in the centre of Bath.
The idea behind Smitten Accessories was to provide unusual and reasonably priced jewellery and handbags made in small quantities.
We have continued to go from strength to strength with the accessories web site, internet bead shop and now our new real life bead shop

THE SMITTEN BEAD WEBSITE
During the past few years I have come across beautiful beads and findings whilst making jewellery for our shop, when I discovered a gorgeous range of metal beads and clasps new to the UK this year, I decided I had to share my find.

I have tried to bring together a collection with unusual extravagant beads and simple inexpensive ones, hopefully something for everyone. From Czech glass to Karen silver and coming in October a new range of high quality Italian findings.

I hope that with each item I have included enough information to make your selection easy but please feel free to email us with questions and we will do our best to help.

WHATS NEXT
Over the next year I intend to increase the range as often as possible so keep looking, I will be adding a new beads category so that you can see what’s new as and when it comes into stock.

SMITTEN BEAD SHOP (and Paper)
After the success of our first tiny but unique shop, we moved to a much larger store in September 2006. In January 2008 we moved to our beautiful and even bigger permanent location at Margarets Buildings.

Our move has enabled us to open our new bead shop downstairs under the accessories shop. We have a beautiful range of beads from resin to Czech glass, handmade lampwork to semi precious and metal to Karen silver. We also have several one off semi precious pieces in addition to our website range.

Our paper craft section includes a range of reasonably priced handmade papers, embossed card, MIC paper packs, envelope and box making boards and a range of cutters and embellishments.