Beads At Brooksie's

I must wholeheartedly disagree with the first person who wrote a review. Sounds like they have a great bid grudge! Anyway, I have shopped at Brooksies's for a long time....the staff there is always friendly and welcoming and very knowledgeable! Sometimes you do not need a whole tube of size 15 and I find it is nice to be able to buy smaller quantities and they have such a large selection of beads and findings all nicely displayed. They have the most wonderful classes. I have taken several. I live quite a distance from Brooksies, but it is well worth the drive! more

These guys are fine if you don't mind paying the most for the least amount. They have a small selection of seed beads and you will have to buy about 10 bags of the size 15s to fill up a normal size tube you can get anywhere else. Add the price of that up and you end up paying between 3-5 dollars more for your size 15s than anywhere else. They are very rude to their own employees and have a lot of very nasty things to say about their customers. I will always go somewhere else where they are not only friendlier but also better priced. Not to mention that they can't keep business promises to the people who helped START their business.. Pretty messed up of you guys!!! I will never support a business that runs this way! more

I would drive by Beads at Brooksie's for months before actually going in. I figured that nothing would be as good as the shop that I used to go to before moving to Arizona. Well, I'm sad that I missed out on such a treasure for such a long time! Beads at Brooksie's is a really small store... I've actually seen walk in closets about the same size. But they have such a selection of beads that it's difficult to imagine that such a small shop can have so much! :-) Well, beads are pretty small, so I guess they go hand in hand. :-) Probably my favorite part of the shop was the big bowl of beads that they have in the middle... you can dig through the bowl, pick out your favorites to fill up a little baggy. I wish I could remember how much the filled baggy was, but I had so much fun I just handed over the credit card without much thought (which can be very dangerous at this shop!). :-) The employees are all very friendly and helpful, but I was a bit sad when no one there knew how to knit or crochet with beads. I had a question about knitting with beads and had to go to another shop to find the answer. :-( Every shop that I had gone to before I moved to AZ (and I went to a lot!) had someone that was very familiar with these techniques because it brought in a new customer base. Maybe it was just them, but I think Brooksies should consider the same. Since it's been a while since I've been there, I hope that the next time I go into the shop, that I can have all of my questions answered - including the knitting or crocheting with beads questions. :-) And yes, the reason I've stayed away is because I know that I can't get the help I need at the shop - but that is just a personal thing... I'm in no way trying to say that you shouldn't visit the shop - it really is worth going to! :-) more