Our first stop was a small lampwork studio on the road to Zelezny Brod who specializes in glass flowers and lampwork beads and buttons. Most bought from stock, but Jamie also bought from production schedule, combining shapes with colors to create new items for us exclusively.
Next stop, Preciosa Ornela seed bead gift shop in Zasada, where most of us loaded up on rocailles prepackaged in small quantities. Striped rocailles were a big hit. Also available in kilo quantities from a back stockroom were 15/0, which J-Me loaded up on.
J-ME bought a seed bead book showing how to make animals. 
Two necklaces made with wire mesh and filled up with seed beads.
A few bead kits for kids (such as our Grandkids)
While the ladies were wading through seed beads, Chris and Guy walked across the street to a small private distillery where we were able to purchase Slivovice. Plum, cherry, pear and apricot slivovice. Yum! Slivovice is the national drink of several eastern and central European countries, including Czech Republic.
The final shopping stop for the tour was a small antik shop in Jablonec where we have been very successful in the past finding old and antique beads and buttons. We weren't disappointed this time either.
some very nice lampwork beads
old glass brooches.From the antik store I shuttled people to a previous stop to settle up and collect their purchases, which they had to take to the hotel and pack or arrange shipping home. Here if they spent over $600 shipping was free. Wow!
And then it was over. Dinner in the hotel with a bottle of my slivovice to toast goodbye. Tomorrow the bus takes our group of fellow button & bead lovers into Prague and and come travel onto places far away.
We, on the other hand, will meet up with Amanda, who will join us for a two day tour while her husband plays golf.
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