Crystal Bead Bazaar — Attraction in Pittsburgh

Love, love, love this little shop! Very clean, well laid out store. Extremely courteous and friendly staff, as well as the owner. Wide selection of jewelry design making supplies. Has all terrain staples. Gorgeous selection of Miyuki seed beads, including delicas. Nice variety of the ever popular two hole seed beads and shapes such as kheops, crescents, tilas, half tilas, bars, triangles, rullas, lentils, super duos, mini duos, daggers, honeycombs, diamonds, silkies, and more. Many different metal components, chain, clasps, stampings, and various findings, both in base metals and precious metals. Huge selection of the common Czech glass as well the more unique styles. Small selection of Lucite flowers. Assortment of buttons, both Czech and German styles. Decent selection of Swarovski crystals in the common staples if rounds, bicones, Marguerites, rivolis, cushions, stones, and chatons of the larger sizes. Some vintage. They also carry a nice selection of thread, wire, and tassels. A nice (although) small selection of higher quality gemstones and a decent selection of regular gemstones and pearls. They offer many extraordinary classes and often do trunk shows which I highly recommend. Prices are very reasonable, especially compared to other shops I've bought from. If you can't find something here, then, you're in the...

Very disappointed! I was in for a class on Saturday and I never made a piece of jewelry. The instructor was told that I never beaded in my life and thought it would be fun. Needless to say I never finish the necklace and ran out of class time. I was sent home with the product not finished and not a clue how to finish the necklace with clasps etc. I don’t even have tools to finish the project because it requires bead tweezers etc. I was told when I booked the class that the class would last an hour and the class was 2 hours and was charged and additional class hours. I did not have any idea that the necklace I was making was going to take as long as it did. The instructor should not have lead me in the direction of making an intense necklace knowing this was my first experience. The beads and supplies were very expensive and on top of the bead expense an additional charge for additional class time for a necklace that was...

So, I dropped my rosary off in August for a repair. I was told that the guy from the gem show would be in and would have the parts required. I told them no worries and to just call me when we had the stuff to fix it. September passed. October passed. I called this morning and I was rudely told that the gem show guy wasn’t coming until next week. I asked if he was there in September. Again, rudely, I was told that he was. I wasn’t willing to wait any more. So I told her I’d be up today to pick up my still broken rosary.

After driving for over an hour north to get there, the lady running the shop yelled at me and told me “I told you it wasn’t ready.” I didn’t care. Her attitude is sending me...