

Whenever I have to travel to a meeting in Sacramento, I visit the U-Bead It bead shop. They are a huge shop with everything a beader could want, great inspiration with their displays, and the most organized and largest seed bead section I've ever seen. And, oddly enough, the tubes of beads I get there are downright magical, they seem to never end. For example, with one tube of amber-colored glass seed beads I got there, plus one string of small genuine amber chips, I have made a brick stitch and amber bracelet, a pair of brick stitch and amber earrings, and an amber-embellished spiral rope for a silver and amber pendant. (And, in case you hadn't guessed, I do like amber!)