I purchased the above beads from Michaels sometime last spring, thinking that I would use them for making some more mixed media collages. I hid them in a large plastic box under a huge pile of fabric scraps, so that they would not get misplaced. A full year later, I was asked to donate beads for an art activity event, and immediately went to look for my stash of hidden beads. But, I couldn't find them, because after a year went by, I had accumulated five or six more plastic boxes of fabric. Lesson learned.