I went to a Christmas shop that sells nothing but Christmas--year round. I saw these cute little ornament hangers--6 for $40.00! The hangers are just twisted wire with a 'crystal' bead in the center. Went by our local craft store and picked up some silver floral wire a package of nice beads and came home and made some! I have decide to make a package of one doz. and give as gifts. The wire was 30pcs. for 1.00 and I cut the wire in half and the beads were about 25cent each. Glue for the beads---total cost less than 30 cent each! The problem is there wasn't a very nice selection of beads/crystals!

Any ideas where I can look? I will start looking in second hand stores for old jewery, tomorrow!

-- Debbie T in N.C. (rdtyner@mindspring.com), October 07, 2001

Answers

Try Fire Mountain Gems, ph: 1-800-423-2319

-- Sandra Nelson (Magin@starband.net), October 07, 2001.

I bead regularly and often get beads at Hobby Lobby or Michaels. If there is a college town or town of any size nearby, look in the phonebook for "Beads". We have a shop that actually makes their own beads, which are nice for accents. Wal-Mart's here have started getting a pretty good basic selection in their craft department, too.

-- Ivy in NW AR (balch84@cox-internet.com), October 07, 2001.

All kinds of stuff like that on Ebay, as well.

-- Jennifer L. (Northern NYS) (jlance@nospammail.com), October 07, 2001.

I suggest a websearch.

Here is what I had bookmarked:

http://www.thebeadsite.com/

http://beadwork.about.com/cs/onlinebeadshops/

-- Joy F [in So. Wisconsin] (CatFlunky@excite.com), October 07, 2001.

www.greyowlcrafts.com

-- Joyce (joycemahoney@yahoo.com), October 08, 2001.

I've seen them at Jo-Ann fabrics as well, in their craft section.

-- Leann Banta (thelionandlamb@hotmail.com), October 10, 2001.

Try shipwreck beads at http://www.shipwreck.com/

-- z in WA (beebedz@juno.com), October 11, 2001.