Ugh, I'm having a similar bead problem. I ran out of beads for Moo to make bracelets, and I've been searching the local stores but they only carry tiny expensive packages of beads rather than the big variety-bead packages I used to buy. (I'd been working with the remainder of the beads I bought years ago.) We boycott Walmart so I can't go there, and there's no Michael's that are accessible to me (we don't have a car since we live along the subway line, but all the Michael's are out on the edge of town). o_O It's so frustrating. Every day that goes by is another day with no bracelets made, and the less bracelets Moo makes for the party, the less donations we'll get for Sick Kids Hospital.