You can also choose to color-coordinate your bead soup—keep one jelly jar for each color: red, blue, orange, green, yellow, black/white, and brown. When you make your bead soup, anything goes—toss in pressed glass beads, seed beads, bugle beads, or pearls and gemstones. Beaded jewelry made from bead soup is easy and fun to make. A bead mix is different from bead soup in that it usually only includes seed beads. Bead mixes are great for bead crocheted ropes and other projects where you need a lot of seed beads in lots of different colors. An added benefit is that beaded earrings make great last-minute gifts for friends and family. Giving your leftover beads away to a friend who wants to get started beading is a great way to get someone else started in beadwork and will help them start their own bead stash. (And you never know—they might return the favor.)
