#i love beads and i hate wearing 90% of jewelry for tactile reasons

[deadwooddross]

The charms you make and sell occasionally are quite delightful, would you be willing to speak in more detail about your materials/methods? They've instilled in me the urge to make my own charms but I have no idea where to go looking for ingredients.

Sure! But first, a word of warning: Beware the Beadlust....it is far too easy to end up like that dril tweet with the candles but its beads. As for ingredients, I mostly peruse etsy! Not the best place for many reasons, but it's kind of like foraging to me, sifting through pages and pages of garbage to find the little grandmas doing lampwork and the bigger stores that seem to actually have a physical location somewhere (and sometimes sites off of etsy). And of course the occasional weird one off/vintage thing that pops up you gotta kinda know what material/style you want to look for though and willing to scrooooolll awhile, due to search algorithms being barely worth spit in a bucket these days. Otherwise I look around irl, i like Trading Posts as far as the US goes, which are basically just craft stores that tend to have a fun range and depending where you are may have some neat stuff from local native artists, which is cool. My current one I mostly go to for seed beads if I can, bc etsy sellers tend to charge you out the nose for a tiny baggy Oh, and thread, pay attention to thread and hole sizes, some beads have TINYYYY holes that are meant for TINYY strings or wires. I like waxed cotton, but for the finer stuff I have some uhhh some kind of nylon thread. I haven't figured out beading wire yet because i dont have anywhere to keep all the shit i'd need for crimping. But I do know how to Tie String! ALSO, THANKS! I will probably make more, i'm just excruciatingly picky about arrangement so it takes a second to settle on putting anything together