Beads and More — Local services in San Diego

I was very excited to find this shop while on vacation in San Diego. The store is lovely and has many beautiful beads and crystals for jewelry making. With that being said, I left before purchasing my items as the owner was downright disrespectful. As a jewelry maker, I often purchase items from gem and bead shows but also feel that it's important to support local business, which is why seek out bead stores everywhere I go. I am one who gets excited about beads and crystals and I asked the owner if there were any shows in town. Now, looking back, I can see how he might take offense to such a question and I wish I hadn't asked him. By no means did I intend to offend, but he quickly became defensive and combative. I tried to explain that I was looking for something specific that he did not carry, but it didn't matter, he continued to lecture me and argue and succeeded at making me feel like an utter jerk for merely asking him a question. I had just complimented him on his store and told him that I wish there were stores like his where I live.... and I had a tray full of items that I was excited to purchase before he cut me down for a number of minutes. I should have said something at the time but I was caught off guard and I instead left without making my purchase. I believe strongly in supporting small business but I won't spend my hard-earned money at a business that treats their customers with disrespect. Perhaps he was having a bad day-I'll never know. I ended up making quite a large purchase at Lost City Beads where the owner and staff were helpful, professional and...

I have been shopping at this store for 20 years when Julia first bought the shop. It started with my 11th Birthday party- fast forward to today and I have a small hobby jewelry business. I've taken multiple classes there- the main 2 was the wire wrapping/ earrings class and the second is the birds nest class. I love that they are set up to bead and take classes! This small business feels like my 2nd home (I spend quite a bit of time beading there) My nieces who are 8 and 10 also love hanging out at this spot- its a great place to bring kids to get them doing some things hands on.

If anyone could use your business during this uncertain pandemic era it is Juan and Julia and their...

I got a necklace repaired here. I wanted to go to a place that wasnt a big box chain. This place is great. I went in on Monday to get my necklace looked at, and received a call on Thursday to say it was done. The lady who fixed it, did it so it looked like it'd never been broken. They took such great care of my necklace. And the pricing was so much better than I'd expected. My necklace was my late dad's, and this place treated me like family. I will be going back, time and time again. This will be my new go-to place for jewelry repair. Beautiful work, and super friendly workers. I can not recommend...