Do you have friends who are beaders? Do you have a cabinet full of beads and findings you never use? Here’s a way to make your friends happy and clean out your cabinet at the same time.

Fill gift bags with beads and findings from your stash and give them to your beader friends as holiday gifts! You’ll have the fun of watching them create something entirely different than what you had in mind when you bought the beads. You’ll also have more room in your cabinet for the beads you’ll buy next year.

You might even give your friends a copy of Gemstones — the special issue devoted entirely to new gemstone projects created by the editors of Bead&Button and BeadStyle — as a source of inspiration. Order your copy now to receive it in time for holiday giving. To order, click here http://kalmbachcatalog.stores.yahoo.net/bs4.html.

Happy beading,

Lynne