BEADS!!!

So over the weekend, my friend and I discovered Perler, Hama or melty beads. I never made those as a child and clearly I missed out. It can be tedious and time consuming to pick tiny beads, in just the right color, out of a bucket filled with over 11,000 beads but it's fun! You can make big projects or small ones. You can create anything that has a cross stitch pattern or you can make up your own. But chances are, if you can think of it, it can be done.

We started with a set of random Perler beads but quickly realized, it wasn't enough of the right colors. We traveled to Walmart to get more. Walmart carries a generic starter kit of melty beads. The beads are not all sized the same and the holes are generally off-centered or not actually holes. We bought them anyway because we didn't know and Michael's was closed.

Micheals carries Perler brand melty beads. You can buy packs of 1000 in a specific color, starter kits with 8000 beads in various color or 11,000 packs of only beads. There isn't a large section dedicated to Perler but it triples Walmarts stock.

If you don't buy the same brands, you will get color variations. Not all blues are the same! It's nice however if you need different shades of the same color for ombre effect.
Overall I've enjoyed this new hobby and most of the products that go along with it!

I also sell my necklaces on fiverr!
http://www.fiverr.com/starz1121/make-nerdy-things