Hope you get on well with your new hobby Kerriann. Just wanted to say don't forget to look in charity shops for beads etc. In the charity shop I work in we often break up jewellery that we know we can't sell and sell the beads and bits and bobs separately for craft work. Same applies to material, wool, buttons etc for all sorts of crafts. We have customers who come in regularly to root through our boxes of oddments.
Good luck with it
Thorntrees.