Our Favorite Places 

Beads -

Whim Beads - Our favorite place to visit in the Bay Area. Owner is bead artist Beki Haley and her husband. They also so some very large shows in the US. Beki teaches classes at the shows.
Fire Mountain Gems - Great deals and deep discounts on beads and lots more.
Beadaholique - Has some really good YouTube video How Toos.
StarDust Beads - Has the "Bead Pricer". You can add products and find out the price if you were to sell it. 
Bead Patterns - You can pay for patterns or get them for FREE.
Shipwreck Beads - The biggest bead store we've ever been in. Located in Lacey WA.

Sports -


2manytradingcards - Our sister sports card site.
Zistle - FREE database to house your collection.
SportsLizard - Cheap pricing database with REAL time data.
Beckett - House your collection here and have all your cards priced with the monthly price guides.
Sports Buy - Formerly Naxcom.com. A site where you can Buy or Sell cards.
Tuff Stuff - House price guides.

Non-Sports -

TCGplayer.com - Price guide for Magic the Gathering Cards
YugiCo.com - Price quide for Yu-Gi-Oh! cards