Jewelry Making Resources Around Dallas/Ft. Worth

Below are some store recommendations. All of the store below provide a good selection of beads, fittings, and other supplies. All, except for the Rock Barrel, offer jewelry making courses.

• The Artful Bead - As their name implies, this store is especially good for finding 'art' beads and lampwork. Fort Worth.
  
  
• Aunties Beads - I have bought from them online, but I'm headed out to their store in a few weeks, and I'll report back.Fort Worth.
  
  
• Beading Dreams - Offers smaller quantities, but a wider diversity of odds and ends. Dallas. On Lover's Lane between the Dallas Tollway and the Inwood.
• Beadworks-Dallas - This store is especially well represented for its selection of svwarski crystal and a nicer quality of glass beads.Richardson. (Located on the SW corner of Coit & Campbell.)
  
  
• Rock Barrell - This store is unique in that it offers the biggest selection of natural beads and supplies that you will find anywhere in the area. If you like using 'natural' material, then go here first. They have a large selection of strands of sodalite, fresh water pearl, onyx, quartz, jade, and lots more. Dallas. (Locate right near TI on 75, just north of the Midpark exit and on the east side.
  
  
• Wild Beads - This store had a variety of things, but I was most impressed with the variety of fittings that were on the tables in the center of the room. There were a lot of unique pieces in Turkish and Thai silver, sterling silver, gold and base metal. Also, this is the only place (among the stores in this list) where I could find a good collection of size 8 seed beads. (I heard from multiple sources that size 8 is the best size for a beginner to use for bead crochet and yet this was the only store that had that size.). Arlington. (Located at Six Flags Mall, off 360, just south of 30. Note: Some major wings of this mall are empty, so park where most of the other cars are parked.
  

Others I have not checked out yet: