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Beads By Tessa

Beaded flowers, creatures and charms

Handmade in Boston, one at a time. Tell Tessa what you have in mind and she’ll quote it.

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Illustrated portrait of Tessa in a navy bucket hat with a green star-eyed smiley

Gallery

  • A beaded bouquet of cream and mauve roses with blue muscari and green foliage, arranged in a white stoneware pitcher
    Bouquets & flowers
  • Beaded cream roses, pale blue blossoms and muscari stems in a dark clay vase on a wooden table
    Bouquets & flowers
  • Beaded peach and mauve flowers with trailing green beaded stems in a clay vase, backlit by a city window
    Bouquets & flowers
  • A hand holding a single beaded mauve flower with layered petals
    Bouquets & flowers
  • Five beaded bug charms on dark wood: a yellow and black bee, a purple ladybug, a pale dragonfly, a black beetle and a red ladybug
    Creatures
  • A red beaded lobster pendant hanging from a silver toggle-clasp chain
    Creatures · Wearables
  • A teal and mint beaded fish pendant on a silver toggle-clasp chain
    Creatures · Wearables
  • A small red beaded lobster charm on a silver keyring, held in a hand
    Creatures
  • A red beaded lobster charm beside white letter beads spelling BOSTON, on a cream sheepskin background
    Boston charms · Creatures
  • A beaded ladybug and blossom bag charm clipped to a pale yellow leather handbag
    Wearables
  • A bag charm of beaded ladybugs and letter beads clipped to a yellow leather bag against a city skyline
    Wearables · Boston charms
A beaded bouquet of cream and mauve roses with blue muscari and green foliage, arranged in a white stoneware pitcher

Featured commission

Her sister’s wedding bouquet, ten years later

Tessa recreated her sister’s wedding bouquet more than a decade after the wedding — flower by flower, in glass beads. Beaded flowers don’t wilt, so it’s the same bouquet, permanently.

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Watch her make it

She posts the process, not just the finished piece.

See everything on TikTok

How it works

  1. Tell her what you want

    Send a photo, a colour, a bug you like, or the bouquet from your wedding. Anything is a starting point.

  2. She'll quote it

    Every piece is made one at a time, so the price depends on size and detail. She'll come back with a number before anything gets strung.

  3. She makes it

    Then it's yours — on a necklace, a bracelet, a bag charm, a keyring, or just as it is.

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She reads everything herself. Expect a reply with a quote, not an invoice.

About

Tessa makes French beaded flowers, creatures and charms in Boston. She started posting the process on TikTok and hasn’t really stopped — the bouquets, the bugs, the lobsters, and the occasional “fastest tutorial of all time.” Most of what she’s made so far has gone to friends and family. The rest went to people who asked.