Picking Beads for Jewelry

Video Transcript

"The next thing I'm going to talk about, is your bead selection. You have several different beads you can buy from, from plastic stones, to genuine stones, to Swarovski crystals. I tend to, when I make something, I want to buy the best quality. I buy genuine stones at all times, and I buy the highest quality crystal, which is Swarovski crystals. As you can see here, they come in all different shapes and sizes, you got round, squares, bicone, and they come in all different shapes and colors. I do like Swarovski, it's a very good, high quality, and it's almost, you can combine it, to me, with genuine stones to enhance it, and to make it look better. The next, the genuine stones, come in all different shapes, they have large beads, small beads, and they, sometimes they call them different things, like this is for instance, like a heshe or a disc bead. This one's just a nice, jagged edge stone, it's not really called anything, they call them chips. And then you have your large beads. Your large beads are usually done by weight, and then your smaller ones when you purchase them, they're usually by strand. Especially the small beads, and for instance, they come in this type of a bunch, and then when you want to, ready to string, you just simply pull off, and you're ready to use this strand, to start beading your jewelry. "