Bead And Button Show 2009

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Millions and millions of beads. Glass beads, plastic breads, wooden beads. Some made from bone, some with liquid glitter inside. Some were hand carved, some blown glass. Some stamped, some baked. Some were made of resin, some were photo etched onto metal. The Bead & Button Show at the Midwest Airlines Center in downtown Milwaukee is the largest bead and button show in the world and I can understand why there is such a hype.

When we got there, it was all I could do to not fall over with amazement of all they beautiful shiny things. Some were displayed individually on specially made racks, others were layed out on tables by the thousands. It would make anyone with a creative mind want to jump up and make beautiful things. We talked to quite a few manufacturers and vendors and found some new product lines that we are looking into carrying. Some are pre-formed kits and some are individual sets of beads and findings.

We will absolutely be back next year for more and we encourage anyone who is able to make the trip also.

You can click HERE to see some of the photos we took.

New AZL Products In Stock!

We now stock AZL (American Z Lines) ACF 3 Bay Covered Hoppers in Up (Union Pacific), BN (Burlington Northern), BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe), and CP (Canadian Pacific) road names as individual cars. These cars are incredibly well done and deserve to be a part of everyone's lineup. Click HERE to see AZL ACF 3 Bay Covered Hoppers.

New LA-Z-WAY-OUT Products Now Available

Hear Ye Hear Ye! Hobby Crafts N More now has new LA-Z-WAY-OUT products available on our website. Now available are: Bulldozer, Tracked Front End Loader with Movable Bucket, Wheeled Front End Loader, Vintage Street Sweeper, Scrapped 1950's Car Piles, Piles of Bundled Scrap, and 40' and 50' Gondola Scrap Loads. These are all unpainted resin kits.

These kits are ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE!!! The detail is incredible and the prices of the kits are very reasonable. Each of the products listed above are linked to the product. If you'd like to see all the LA-Z-WAY-OUT products that we carry you can click HERE.

Upcoming Craft Show

Just a note to let my crafters know that I will be attending the Bead & Button Show in Milwaukee this coming weekend. I will be taking photos and plenty of notes. For those of you new to our show listings, we go to shows (trains, hobbies, and crafts) and I review them for those of you unable to attend. We post photos on our website where you can view them. Feel free to leave comments on our blog as well as any experiences you may have had at the shows as well.

Kenosha Train Show 2009

This was our first time at this show and, for being as small as it was, had quite a few people there and plenty of new ideas to share. Midwest Rails (G Scale) had the great idea to use cut tree branches to resemble cut trees in a logged area of a forest. They also used copper sheeting or copper leaf on the roof of a building...it looked incredibly realistic.

Lego made a return to shows!

Lake County Society of Model Engineers had a module that had a dug out section and put in thick gray plastic or foam sheets to represent a foundation of a building at a construction site. They had HO narrow gauge running on the upper section.

Milwaukee N Trak had a large display.

Northwest N-Trak Club from Bensenville, IL (T-Trak Division) was a layout we'd never seen before. They had a great idea to use a Clementine orange box and made an orange grove out of one inch Styrofoam balls pegged on wood dowels then flocked with green flocking and added a few tiny orange beads.

The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Transit Historical Society was running an "O" scale interurban railway.

And for $0.50 you could even take a trip back in time and ride the streetcars!

The show was small, but for free, we got some great photos and ideas to share with you!<---------CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS!

The Great Crash of 2009

Just a note to let you know that we are back up and running after our computer hard drive crashed. Thank you all for your patience and your orders are on the way!

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