Find out how to access your Betty Bank, get those rewards, and redeem them online or in-store for your Betty bonuses.

Not sure what Betty Bucks are? Read on to get the full scoop…

Betty Bucks 101

Maybe you’ve seen the little blue tab in our webshop that says “Betty Bucks”, but got too distracted shopping for sea glass goodies to click on it & learn what they are. It’s ok, it happens…. we know all too well sea glass has that “OUUU SHINY Effect” on people.

But what’s probably not ok, is the fact that you could be missing out on serious Betty savings just by shopping your pretty little heart out…which is what you were doing anyway!

So here’s the low down on Betty Bucks, what they are, how you get them & how to use them for bonus Betty bling!

What exactly IS the deal with Betty Bucks?

Betty Bucks is our sweet (& super easy) online shop rewards program*

You’ll automatically get 5% back in online-store credit on every purchase.* Build them up to use toward future shopping adventures. Spend this shopping credit towards your shopping cart at Bettybelts.com (some limitations & exclusions apply)* 

It’s our way of gifting back & saying thanks for choosing to shop small & for keeping the Betty ride going. We’re beyond grateful for the love & support. You’re the reason why our fun boat keeps afloat!

Sahweeet! How do I get them?

To earn these perks, you have to set up a Betty account online. It’s ultra easy, just click on that tab (the one we mentioned before, found at the right of your screen on the shop home page), follow the prompts & presto! Let the Betty Bucks fun begin.

Even better, these rewards never ever expire. In fact, you might have some Betty Bucks & not even know!… if you’ve created a customer account & shopped (after 10/20/17, which is when Betty Bucks began) you have some Bucks in the Betty Bank. So follow the easy steps, and find out. 

Awesome, sooo how do I use them?

You can always check your Betty Bank by signing in through the Betty Bucks link tab  & redeem your Betty Bucks at checkout with the discount code we’ll send via email in the amount of Bucks you want to spend.  You can [CLICK HERE] for your step-by-step Betty Bucks guide. Happy shopping Babes! 

XO ~ Team Betty

Betty Bucks update*

If you’re wondering if you can use the Betty Bucks you earned from shopping online at our brick & mortar Betty Shop, the answer is YES!

Just get in touch via text or call, and we’ll get the process started before you arrive at the shop.

We have to transfer them over from your online shopping account to your in-store account (and it’s a bit of process), so giving us a heads up will save you time before you arrive!

Your patience is seriously appreciated. We’re working out the kinks as we go during the challenges that have come with the extremely difficult time to be in business & serving our beloved customers. Thank you so very much in advance.

Mahalo & Happy shopping gorgeous! 

What exactly IS Custom Betty Jewelry?

Put simply, it’s Betty jewelry made with your very own sea glass. This special service is for local & long-distance sea glass lovers who want to turn their found beach treasures into select signature Betty designs. 

Sahweeet! How does it work? 

In 3 easy steps:

1. Contact us about getting custom jewelry made. We’ll happily walk you through the process from start to finish, beginning with an assessment of your own personal glass.
2. Send or bring your sea glass to Betty HQ. You can also shop our selection of loose”secret stash sea glass” that we keep in stock for those seeking something extra special you won’t likely find elsewhere these days, as sea glass is becoming more and more rare on beaches and shores around the world.
3.  We’ll consult with care, and confirm which Betty jewelry style(s) could work best for your glass. We’ll then create a dreamy sea glass jewelry design custom made just for you within 4-6 weeks!

CLICK THIS LINK & visit our service page for FULL DETAILS & get started!

Customizing your most-loved sea glass finds into precious pieces of jewelry you can wear & adore for many, many moons & beyond is an absolute favorite Betty fan experience. We LOVE hearing your sea glass stories, and are grateful to help turn special memories into keepsakes you’ll cherish.

Mahalo & happy custom creating babes! 

XO ~ Team Betty

It’s beginning to look bright again for the holidays.

That means a very special Betty tradition we always celebrate around this time of year called Bright Friday is upon us.

Every year, we choose to raise the bar with a Betty Belts Cause Day while most retailers drop to rock bottom–prices, that is… & entice people to rush out in ravenous crowds to buy cheap, trivial things at Black Friday blowout sales.

But it’s on this awesome day that you’re invited instead to delight in choosing treasured Betty gifts from the sea that really matter to the people you love the most, while also giving to those who are in true need. This week on…

 Betty B. Bright Friday
25% of our gross sales (online and in-store)
will be donated to the
East Bali Poverty Project

Click on the links and this little video we made below to learn more about how this cause organization is reviving a once desolate and forgotten community by providing education, health care, sustainable agriculture and community economic development. You can support educating their youth for a bright future by visiting our beautiful Downtown Ventura shop, the Ocean Room Gallery & through shopping online this Friday.

EBPP Local school building & development

EBPP provides school supplies & learning materials

EBPP Dental programs

Local organic farming programs

EBPP making improvements access to villages through road repairs & maintenance

Thank you for helping us make a difference in so many people’s lives by supporting our small business. 

With loving gratitude,

Donna & the Betty Family

We appreciate and love all of you who come to say hello and shop for loved ones, but we see a possible little glitch ahead this season.

Due to restrictions our lovely Government has implemented (and not entirely sure if they will go full Scrooge) we have come up with a plan, something truly unprecedented for Betty Belts, but these are unprecedented times. We’ve thought long and hard about this, because, as you probably know we never do a sale of this magnitude, let alone, many sales at all. It’s not how we roll. In this most challenging time for humanity, our intention is to make the Holidays less stressful, more joyful, more affordable.

So starting today we are launching 10 Days of Christmas here at Betty Belts! 

SHOP BETTY B. ONLINE

YUP! We’re making Betty dreams come true with this special! As this first-ever event of this magnitude will fall right in the middle of Bright Friday, all purchases made that day (both online and in-store) will see 25% from your purchase go straight to the East Bali Poverty Project.

Bali has been hit incredibly hard by the lockdowns. Many families were left with no income. The poor suffered the most. Your purchase will benefit them this Christmas. 

Thank you for helping Bettybelts meet all your holiday gifting needs!

*This offer is ONLINE ONLY. If you are local, please shop online and choose in-store pickup! Why only online? It really helps this small business when you order online as the shop is only allowed a few people at a time! 

#weneverdothis #unprecedentedtimes 

Skim this 2-minute read to find out how Betty Bucks are as good as spending cash in our online shop.***

It’s our rad Betty gift that keeps on giving long after the bows & boxes are gone.

What exactly IS the deal with Betty Bucks?

Betty Bucks is our sweet (& super easy) shopping rewards program**

Get 5% back in online-store credit from every purchase.* Build them up to use toward future shopping adventures.  Spend them at bettybelts.com & get a your own special code to use at check out for sweet savings!

It’s our way of saying thanks for choosing to shop small & for keeping the Betty ride going.

Sahweeet! How do I get them?

To earn the perks, you have to set up a Betty account online. It’s ultra easy, just click on that teal Betty Flower tab found at the right of your screen on the shop home page), follow the prompts & presto! Let the Betty Bucks fun begin.

Even better, these rewards never ever expire. In fact, you might have some Betty Bucks & not even know!… if you created a customer account & shopped any time after 10/20/17 (the start of Betty Bucks) you have some Bucks in the Betty Bank right now. Follow the easy steps & find out now.

Awesome, sooo how do I use them?

Check what’s in your Betty Bank by signing in through the Betty Bucks link tab .  Once signed in, click the CLAIM TAB to receive a code we’ll send via email, and redeem your Betty Bucks at checkout to get the discount.

Great! Is there any other way to earn Betty Bucks?

Follow us on the Betty Pinterest  & instantly score 3 extra Betty Bucks & 10% OFF your next order. Boom.

We’re beyond grateful for the love & support. You’re the reason why our fun boat keeps afloat! Mahalo & happy shopping gorgeous.

XO ~ Team Betty

***Betty Bucks not valid for USD cash exchange, store credit value only (sales tax & shipping fees not included).

*Betty Bucks are earned on the subtotal of an online purchase (sales tax & shipping fees not included).

**Betty Bucks issued online are non-transferrable & cannot be combined/redeemed with Betty Bucks issued in our retail stores & vice versa.

Decorations came down, feasts eaten & the parties are over.

Moving on from the holidays can be a bummer, but good times go on as Bettys enjoy their gifts in 2020.

And guess what? If you were the Santa that gave your beach babes shiny new Bettys under the tree, you might have a bonus gift waiting for you too!

BRIGHT FRIDAY UPDATE! Through your support we raised over $1000 for the Blue Mind Fund this year, THANK YOU!!! With out you, this circle of love we’re sharing to help protect our Ocean, and her stewards doing the work to do just that isn’t possible. With all of our heart, infinite thanks.

If you’re not sure what the Bright Friday buzz is all about, read on in the post below to learn more…

Our annual tradition of giving more through gifting your loved ones with Betty Belts is happening Friday, November 29th! (online until midnight PST)

If you’ve never heard of Betty Bright Friday, it’s our alternative to joining the frantic Black Friday masses in a rush to claw through rock-bottom racks of corporate mega stores.

Instead, we choose to raise the bar on the “first holiday shopping day” by creating a Cause Day for a more conscious customer choice. 

We asked her why she loves the ocean. This is what she shared & why we love her…

I love the ocean because it brings me calmness, happiness, and keeps me healthy. It connects us all as one, and strengthens the bond of humanity. I could not live without being on or near the ocean.

You may already know of Michelle, as she’s one of the inspired souls we heard about when the Thomas Wildfires devastated our hometown last year & for whom we created the Betty Strong Benefit Tee.

Michelle is a Ventura surfer who hustles hard owning her own small business cleaning pools & spas. She, her man & their 11-year old son lost everything in the fire– including her home, vehicle & cleaning supplies needed to work to support her family.

Despite the wreckage & hard road to recovery after the fire, she returns to the sea to soothe her soul. She is Betty Strong. 

Learn more about Michelle’s story.

The recent Thomas fire to flood disaster that has landed where we live with the grace and destruction of an asteroid strike, has caused us to look at who and what we are, and why we do the things that we do in our daily lives, and more to the point for me, what my Company stands for, and does about that.

Previously many of you helped out and spread the word, donated, and/or otherwise encouraged our Saving Ventura: Rebuilding the Glassman project. And it worked! It helped Dan to get his company back up and running, as well as to grow, in order to meet an increased demand for his services.

You all really came through, in a show of compassion and action, which quite honestly is really what made this project work. The entire community did this. You acted.

Direct relief works! It is immediate when time counts so very much. And we are not done yet!

Though we do not have a history of disclosing the number of direct relief projects which this company engages in (and always has) the disaster has caused us to re think this “quiet service” policy of ours. So we are going to begin to share what we (all of us, as a company and with our tribe of Bettys) do.

I founded Betty Belts after moving back to California, where I was born and grew up. The divorce and a love of the ocean took me from my life and home in Berlin of almost 17 years, and dropped me back into California and a new life that was to be lived attached to the Sea.

Here is a little video about that called “Passages”, which we built for a business Grant competition from Intuit (We got the grant!)

As I built Betty Belts, what I focused on was empowering myself. Becoming stronger. Better. As we grew, I began supporting other women whose goals were ocean minded and that were all dynamic strong women. We created a network on Bali to supply work and training to village women and began to pay it all back to those who became our family and partners as fine artisans in Indonesia.

We have always been about that: female empowerment. Today I call it being “Betty Strong”. My mission as founder of this company is to make things better for the world, and to do so through the foil of the Ocean and all of us, (mostly female) who are part of this wonderful collective.

Much gratitude goes to all of the Bettys. It is impossible to list them all, there are simply too many who have built this. But together we are “Betty Strong”

This recent round of California centric localized disasters has underscored that we need to talk about what that is, why we do it, and who leads the movement.

Michelle Wolfe is Betty Strong. Her story will be next up here on the Betty Blog. It is both wonderful, then heartbreaking as the fire destroyed her worldly possessions, and now heads back to beautiful. Like Dan Glassman, we were amazed by her heart and strength.

Our first act was creating a simple tee shirt. The Betty Strong tee. All proceeds from it will go towards getting Michelle back on her feet and in business after the fire.

Our second action was to donate a sum in advance of the Betty Strong tee sales to help Michelle get rolling. What was the point of making her wait until we sell some?

Other ways to help Michelle: we have set up a tip jar on the counter at the shop for cash, gift cards, checks, letters of encouragement, etc. everything in it goes straight to her.

Don’t want to get a tee? Can’t come in? Donate directly via this  link which is a gofundme campaign that a family friend set up for her. At only $2717 raised so far today, more than a month after it was originally set up, it could really use some of your love.

Betty Strong Benefit Tee for Michelle Wolfe

Michelle’s apartment up in flames of the Thomas Fire

What remains of Michelle’s home of 12 years: nothing

Michelle Watkins Wolfe: Betty Strong