When people first get into beading they sometimes feel overwhelmed with all the new terminology and beading supplies they have to initially buy. And while the real fun of any sort of beading project is definitely in the creating something beady from scratch, one of aspects many people also enjoy is simply buying the beads. But even this process of buying beads is not easy because we’re constantly bombarded with a thousand different beads in a hundred different packages and counts at what seems like a million different prices! The trick is learning how to buy the …

Let’s face it, the most expensive part of creating bead jewelry is the beads and beading supplies. At some point most serious bead jewelry artists begin to take a good hard look at the money they’re making with their jewelry and comparing it to their expenses and quickly realize that the one item the most money is spent on is the beads themselves. The same is true, of course, for artists who make their own beads whether it be out of glass or silver clay or some sort of polymer or even paper! The raw materials …