About Us Here at For the Love of Beads!
We've put together some information about ourselves and the store in this section to give
people a better idea as to who we are and what we're about. Check out the various pages of
the About Us section on the menu to the left, or follow the links at the bottom of this page.

Two Girls With a Mission
Emily and Suzanne wanted For the Love of Beads
(FtLoB) to supply unique and interesting beads to
people from all over the world.

"Suzanne and I hope to provide great customer
service. Our small size helps us attend to each
order with special care. Unlike larger businesses,
we want to make ourselves personable and
approachable.

We are expanding our inventory continually, and we
plan to greatly expand the community aspects of
the site."

-Emily

A Short History of FTLOB:
For the Love of Beads was a small, family run online
bead store. No longer very actively updated, Emily
and Suzanne jumped at the opportunity to take it
over in 2006. It took a year to sort out what to do
with the site, and it was re-launched in June 2007.

Emily was busy getting married and going back to
college, while Suzanne was taking care of her two
young children. As things settled down over the
next year, they were able to focus better on finding
great new products and redesigning the website.
In late 2008, Mike (Emily's husband) and Hayden
(Suzanne's husband) got more involved in the
project, having freed up some time from their busy
work schedules. Since then the four of them (with a
little help from some other friends and colleagues)
have worked hard to realize their dream of running
an active business and working towards fostering a
fun and inclusive online community.