Why I Love Beading Magazines

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One of my favorite things about bead magazines is that many of them contain a listing of bead stores, categorized by state, in the back. I assume these are basically ads, so it's by no means a listing of every single bead store in the U.S., but it is good for finding stores when I travel.

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