✨ About the Beadkeeper Society

The Beadkeeper Society was born from a simple truth:
I’ve always seen the world in color, texture, and tiny shimmering details.

I’m a lifelong crafter, writer, and synesthetic daydreamer — someone who doesn’t just look at materials, but feels them. Colors have moods. Shapes have energy. Sound becomes texture. Words have mouthfeel. And beads… beads tell little stories if you give them the right palette to speak in.

🌟 How It All Started

In 2023, like half the planet, I dove headfirst into the Taylor Swift universe — maybe a little deeper than most. I made well over a thousand friendship bracelets for the Eras Tour: for trading, gifting, connecting, healing, laughing, screaming lyrics next to strangers who instantly felt like family.
That joy didn’t end when the stadium lights did.

I eventually started a bracelet exchange with Swifties, mailing bracelets across the country — tiny sparkling ambassadors of kindness, art, and community. It reminded me how powerful small handmade things can be. I love the act of making something that will make someone smile when they wear it. 

But it also highlighted a problem.

🎨 The Frustration

I kept trying to source beads that felt elevated — beads that weren’t cheap plastic, mismatched, or flat. I wanted charm, dimension, story. I wanted materials that looked beautiful on a wrist and even better when paired together.

And over and over again, I ran into the same issues:

• Sets that looked great online but arrived with missing or lackluster pieces

• Incomplete “kits” that didn’t actually coordinate

• Elevated beads sold in tiny quantities at painfully high margins

• Color palettes that never quite worked together

• Boxes where you could use maybe half the beads before it all fell apart aesthetically

It made crafting harder, not easier — and in my world, creating should never feel like settling.

✨ The Aha Moment

So I did what my synesthetic, crafty, writer-brain does:
I started designing my own curated bead palettes — small worlds in a box.

A feeling.
A color story.
A vibe you could wear.

I sourced metal, gemstone, crystal, enamel, glass, and vintage finds. I selected shapes that played well together, sizes that balanced, textures that harmonized. I tested every single box by making bracelets myself, making sure nothing clashed, nothing felt cheap, nothing felt random.

And suddenly, friends started asking:
“Where did you get these beads?”
“Can you make me a box?”

That’s when I realized this wasn’t just a hobby.
It was a tiny creative movement.

🪩 Welcome to The Beadkeeper Society

The Beadkeeper Society is a space for people who love shiny things, tiny things, meaningful things — and the stories they carry.

It’s for Swifties, crafters, beginners, pros, kids, grandparents, friends, and anyone who wants to create something beautiful with their own hands.

It’s for people who see a bead not as a sphere, but as a spark.

Every box is:

• lovingly curated by hand in Northern New Hampshire

• made from individually sourced beads (including reclaimed & vintage pieces)

• built around a cohesive palette where every bead works with every bead

• designed to help you tell your own story through color and craft

• tested by me: if I wouldn’t use it, I won’t sell it

No more incomplete sets.
No more random leftovers.
No more overpriced tiny quantities.
Just beautiful, intentional, wearable art.

💛 A Little About Me

I’m Katie — writer, creative, synesthete, bead hoarder, Swiftie, photographer, systems-builder, and perpetual maker of things.
If it shines, I’m studying it. If it sparkles, I’m collecting it. And if it tells a story, I’m already imagining the next chapter.

I believe crafting should feel like opening a treasure chest — a moment of joy, connection, and inspiration. And my hope is that every Beadkeeper box gives you that feeling.

Welcome to the Society.
I’m so glad you’re here.
Let’s make something beautiful together.