A Place To Bead

A Place To Bead A cozy shop in a village setting. A nice selection of all kinds of beads, buttons, supplies, and tools for any beading or craft project, classes, and more!
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New product alert 🎉🎉🎉Cylin beads are size 11/0 cylinders and compatible with delicas. We just got 37 glow in the dark c...
05/23/2026

New product alert 🎉🎉🎉

Cylin beads are size 11/0 cylinders and compatible with delicas. We just got 37 glow in the dark colors! Each color comes in a 25g pack for $10.

Here is your gemstone fact of the day, brought to you by a beam of sunlight.Onyx is chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form...
05/17/2026

Here is your gemstone fact of the day, brought to you by a beam of sunlight.

Onyx is chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz, which means the individual crystals are so tiny, they cannot be seen even with high magnification. There is still teeny tiny space between the crystals, which allows dye to pe*****te deeply.

But what the trade calls black “onyx” is not really that…. Here you can see in a couple of places that this is really chalcedony that has been dyed, and it’s a very dark brown, so dark it appears black.

True onyx is banded black and white, and was traditionally used in carvings like cameos, where the individual layers of black and white could be seen and incorporated into the design. Sardonyx is onyx with brown (sard) thrown in the mix.

Happy beading!

New in our collection of unique and wonderful things, we have enamel pendants made by the late Patti Karp, who was a Los...
05/10/2026

New in our collection of unique and wonderful things, we have enamel pendants made by the late Patti Karp, who was a Los Angeles-based jewelry and mixed media artist.

New class alert 🎉Soup Du Jour Bracelet - Sunday May 31, 11am-4pm, $65 +materialsWeaving a base of pe**te stitch, you’ll ...
04/25/2026

New class alert 🎉

Soup Du Jour Bracelet - Sunday May 31, 11am-4pm, $65 +materials

Weaving a base of pe**te stitch, you’ll learn how to embellish this colorful bracelet and create a ball and loop clasp. This is a great stash-buster project to use up all those odds and ends!

Call or email to register
626-529-2863 / [email protected]

In honor of Earth Day (a day late), here are some of our other customers! They don’t care for beads too much, so instea...
04/23/2026

In honor of Earth Day (a day late), here are some of our other customers! They don’t care for beads too much, so instead we make sure they have plenty to eat. We currently have 9 little hungry customers at home, and one at the store, the likes of which we had never seen before! It is a Queen Butterfly caterpillar, which looks similar to a monarch but with slightly different markings and three sets of antennae.

Our first store butterfly emerged today! We had this caterpillar behind the store on some milkweed, and the Chief named...
04/19/2026

Our first store butterfly emerged today! We had this caterpillar behind the store on some milkweed, and the Chief named him or her Henry. We took Henry home to keep an eye on him/her.
Today Henrietta took flight!

Bead Embroidery Sun. May 3, 11am-4pm$68 + materials Liz will expertly guide you through exploring the techniques of bead...
04/01/2026

Bead Embroidery
Sun. May 3, 11am-4pm
$68 + materials

Liz will expertly guide you through exploring the techniques of bead embroidery. You can use your new skills to create jewelry pieces, beaded art, or embellish textiles.

Call or email to register
626-529-2863 / [email protected]

🎉 Sale Alert!!! 🎉Usually about this time of year, we get a visit from our Czech bead pusher, Shelley. She’s hurt her ba...
03/30/2026

🎉 Sale Alert!!! 🎉

Usually about this time of year, we get a visit from our Czech bead pusher, Shelley. She’s hurt her back hauling bins full of beads, so her trip is delayed until the fall. But that gives us extra time to give our Czech bead wall a little weeding, so look out for new markdowns of 30% and 50% off select Czech strands starting this week! I’m working my way from the top of the wall to the bottom, so more strands will be added over the next few weeks, which ties in to our spring cleaning sale that starts tomorrow! 🎉🎉🎉

6 years ago today I posted a picture like this of our nectarine blossoms (this year there is a poppy in the background!)...
03/20/2026

6 years ago today I posted a picture like this of our nectarine blossoms (this year there is a poppy in the background!) - we thought the store would be closed for about 2 weeks, which turned into two months. And just like this year, we had a first grader, who then had to transition to doing school at home. It was a blur of trying to figure out what to do and not lose our minds, how to keep the store from falling into the abyss, how to supervise the Young Staff Member doing zoom school, and entertain the Chief Redecorating Officer who was 9 months old (he also was an eager participant in 1st and 2nd grade zoom school). It was a lot! While we lost 90% of our regular business for those two months, at least the edge of the abyss was held at bay. 0/10, do not recommend doing that again.

But here we are, thank you for getting through all that mess with us, and now we have more beads than ever!

This diamond is a stunner! Be sure you zoom in on the photos to see the incredible growth patterns. Did you know…. Dia...
03/10/2026

This diamond is a stunner! Be sure you zoom in on the photos to see the incredible growth patterns.
Did you know…. Diamonds are one of the few gemstones in the cubic crystal system, which is the most perfectly uniform of all seven crystal systems, allowing light to pass through in one ray (the other systems split light in two due to structural irregularities). Most diamonds form in an octahedral shape, which is a double pyramid with 8 sides. And guess what the 2D shape that looks like that is called?
Did you guess diamond?

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2566 Mission Street
San Marino, CA
91108

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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+16265292863

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