I see beautiful work on this post.  I was just wondering wheres your favorite place or places for buying beads?  Heres mine.

Hobby Lobby

JoAnns

Aunties Beads

Micheals

hello, been away for a long, long time... (lurking" in the background just watching what everyone is doing - so many new "faces", and such wonderful new pieces to see.  Gotta get busy and post some shots of the stuff I've been playing with...

Anyway, dont have a whole lot of choices here, but I do love one local store "Beads and Plenty More".  I have also bought stuff from Michael's, and (yup) Walmart.  And, I've managed to get some interesting hematite beads (probably "hematite"glass) from the Dollarama (really, a "dollar" store-go figure).  Did pick up some nice beads from the Canadian Oasis Bead show here in April.  My sister has also ordered some beads online...

J

I love Fire Mountain Gems and Beads, as Fusion Beads, and Vicalla.  I get a more consistent offering of product at Fire Mountain, and if you combine your order with someone else's, you probably won't have any trouble getting at least one level of discount.  Everyting is mix and match.  I have never been disappointed with their service.

 I'm a HUGE fan of GoodyBeads.com. I have never had such wonderful customer service - seriously! I love their beads and they have excellent prices. I also like to stop in local bead shops when visiting out of town places.

 I used to use FMG but am a big fan of Rio Grande now, they don't import as much cheap glass goods (it cheapens what local artists do when folks get used to the poor-quality mass-produced factory imports, often knockoffs of well-known glass artists)... Artbeads.com is good too, and very fast shipping.