BIGGEST BEAD HAUL EVER 60lb. 15yr. COLLECTION 🎉 BEADHAULATHON🎉

[@peachyreen4550]

You scored! Those first bags were especially interesting! I’m new to this world. I wanted to make a beaded curtain, 9 feet long of various materials, shapes and sizes so I bought a Mercari Lot from a woman in AZ who had received 26 pounds from a friend and she mixed exerything together into thirteen 2 pound bags. I need 270 feet of beads so I thought this would be a good start. I paid $22. I don’t think she knew how much these are actually worth. There’s glass, wood, crystal, shell, plastic, ceramic, metal and stone. I’m still sorting through them & learning about my haul from you. It’s so fun! I’m like addicted to organizing them now & want to do way more projects than just the curtain. I’m totally subscribing

[@TheVJTiticaca]

You are ICONIC! over 4 hours beads beads knowledge joy entertainment. truly you have a golden statue in me heart. Thank you so much i made two projects watching this massive haul. You are just the best project companion, normal it's Madonna singing me through a project but my dear darling you beat Madonna out of the park. You are my project guru thanks for the companionship during my projects they turned out the best i ever made. Thank you !!!!!

[@beadifulnights]

Wow, your so sweet thank you so much! You made my night 🥰

[@norskichick]

What a sweet and lovely comment, VJ.

[@bluebird2472]

I have been watching for 3 days and not finished yet, everything is just awesome. Will be watching more tomorrow.

[@nellieolguin-davis1519]

Aleisha if I were you before you start taking stuff apart take them and have it all tested I believe you might have a small fortune there especially in the stone and the bronze !!!God Bless!!❤❤

[@walkingmypath329]

2 hrs 34 minutes there are a few bags and strands and then leaves that are all yellow/green, often with some bits of black in. These are jasper. Thanks for this video sharing your amazing haul. I loved every minute.

[@debbiwestgard442]

Please take time! I love watching your bead hauls right before bed and it helps me relax!❤

[@umich79]

What a haul! Good job. Can’t wait to see what you’ll create with these. You always have such great designs!

[@nancyshell2855]

You got the haul of the year in this purchase. I love going out shopping for beads but I am disabled now and our neighborhood bead shop closed due to c-19 . while we have a lot of Michaels and a Jo-anns here they don't have the exotics beads I crave . I never thought of buying beads through Mercari Thank you for sharing your haul with us I am living vicariously through you ,

[@Doxymeister]

The silver items that need repair won't be that hard to repair. Check with a local jewelers shop to see if they do jewelry repair, most of them do. We have a local jeweler that repaired my Mom's white-gold wedding ring and only charged her $50 for it. I'm going to take my class ring to him, it needs the gothic letter in the sapphire to be redone in gold, and then it needs re-lacquering. Anyway, if you can't find a jeweler that will do it for a reasonable amount, try an electronics repairman--they do all sorts of soldering and might give it a try. You never know! What a cool haul!

[@colleencarmichael6917]

In the 2nd bag if she got the turquoise in Nepal it would be Chinese turquoise. It tends towards a green colour. It would be real. The blue pendant that you thought was glass looks like Chalcedony to me. Crystal drops look like Preciosa. I have some of those.

[@michellepernula872]

China does lots od Jade and they get if from where I live.

[@j.whiteoak6408]

I just spent $4,300 on topping up my gemstone beads & cabochons, and sterling silver and solid 9k gold findings ... and there really wasn't that much weight to it when it arrived!! I've barely noticed an increase to my well-organised bead trays!! But I got free shipping on almost all of it, coming from all over the world. So that was a very nice haul you have there!! I hope you have many great experiences with it : ) Love your channel XX

[@RubyGirlJewels]

Aleshia! You hit the mother load! What a great haul!! I enjoyed watching the video very much. Thanks for sharing.

[@carolvaladez7074]

Wow, what a great haul! I am so happy for you, and so jealous at the same time. That is going to take you such a long time to sort and organize but it will be so fun, I'm sure.

[@Mitsey123]

Wow what an epic find and video, I started watching last night and have just finished. I love getting bead and Findings soups and sorting through them, I get a lot from Spoilt Rotten beads, it's a great way to get the newer beads and try them out before you buy a load that you'll never use. Really lovely beads

[@Rae.J]

2:34:55 Canadian Jade (true name is Nephrite). Just before that. Dyed howlite. White howlite is a genuine stone. It's easy to dye.

[@beadweaver1289]

What a haul! I’m thinking the salmon-veined beads are pink feldspar. And at 2hr 38 (wire wrapped) is mossy agate. Bead on 📿

[@gigilongtime2891]

Would love to see what you make from some of these do you have a website where you show and sell your jewelry you make? Would love to see tfs

[@gatheringmoss5726]

The big bead at 4:29 is a handmade clay Buddha bead with 24K gold leaf applied to it, so it will need its own bag or box to protect it. The pressed image is Buddha. Wipe clean with a dry cloth. They're made in Thailand and cost $3-$5 each. I think the beads at 4:30 are made from Bodhi seeds.

[@Rae.J]

Wow. Lots of genuine turquoise there girlfriend. Lot of genuine semi-precious. So very jealous 🤣. Love your hauls. Wish we could buy from Mercari (Australia). I love your enthusiasm and talent. 💕

[@laurielodge5652]

Just WOW!!! I've been watching your channel for about a decade. You are soooo entertaining and funny, too. "Looks like chicken feet" and "looks like a blue tongue" had me lol. You have tons of sorting to do...hope you have help. Thank you, my dear for your time and effort. I would love to see how you store your beads.

[@norskichick]

Her delight and enthusiasm shine through so well as she opens her treasures. 😊

[@manonnetje_02]

omg some of those bags are amazing for some costplay costumes I love it

[@OdeInWessex]

That fabulous blue lampwork bead at 1.03.30 looks like Murano Glass, if it is as you will be aware it would have been eye-wateringly expensive. Lovely, lovely bead, can't wait to see what you do with it.

[@norskichick]

Tide pools! I love her description of that Murano bead. And you are so right re :: price point. It’s a lovely bit of artistry.

[@ryankoeppe1916]

About 3:21:25 in you pulled out some ancient looking beads. It's so familiar to me as well and I want to say they are used as fertility charms in some tribe.

[@belindaeileen]

Jade can come in more than one color including that pale yellow color and can have that semi translucent kinda waxy appearance.

[@beadifulnights]

Here is the link to sign up for Mercari and get up to $30. merc.li/DCKGcwqnb

[@dianejohnson1238]

Those tiny bottles (13:39) came from Fire mountain gems years ago, and so did a lot of the other things in that bag. I didn't watch the whole thing but years ago I use to order bead's and a lot of it I recognize from Fire mountain gems.

[@erickapoppe9696]

24:24 is amazonite;-) , also the deep red beads you kept finding may be Ruby (from the corundum family of stones)that may be heat treated or lab created but still beautiful. Maybe real corundum;-) which is also where sapphire comes from. You scored big friend! I’m only 27 minutes in! Love love love your hauls! Happy 2023 Alisha❤ I will comment more if I spy anything else I can possibly identify. Great stuff you got and great price !😊

[@dannsherstone1037]

Wow! What a haul! It took me four days to get through this video! Lucky You!

[@patsbeads]

The India glass I have is the solid color. Not striated. Some India glass is opal style glass, but most India glass has chalky bead release in the holes, and they are not finished on the ends. Very irregular. The large lamp work glass bead you said was your favorite, is made with base of ivory glass that has silver foil over it. Then there is clear aqua blue overlaid in sections.The silver is then also fumed onto the ivory to give it all of the dark lines. The chemical reaction between the ivory glass and the silver makes the swirls and lines.

[@cindyjones3216]

At 3:26 I think that clear sort of stone is chalcedony. I have a ring that I bought years ago that looks identical to the stone you showed.

[@anitaassad4499]

The first bag is Tibetan silver with turquoise and coral inlays.

[@erickapoppe9696]

32:30 could be turquoise and possibly 925 findings possibly marked and looks like a Barse Studio piece which can be expensive;-) if you have a loupe check clasp - lots of times it’s marked;-) that was a beautiful necklace!❤

[@tgal1163]

Lol “ chicken feet” … lost it when you said that because I was thinking the same thing!

[@gretchen-f7p]

its sandstone,one of my favorits.and i love that dog tooth amythist too

[@debbiwestgard442]

3.26 the lite green is Pernite or a type of green tourmaline. I am leaning towards prenite .

[@NinjaBooKitty]

A lot of that first bag with the tribla inlaid beads look MIddle Eastern, specifically like Afghlanistan where a lot of that is traditionally from. Also looked like you have an African baule bead.

[@kimpeasester]

YUP, IM JEALOUS! ISNT SOOOOO MUCH FUN GOING THRU IT...

[@dannsherstone1037]

At 2:21:38 the circular piece with the clip - it is a shoe clip.

[@lynnnorton7344]

At 3:22 those beautiful stones look like golden obsidian, I can't remember but I am pretty sure that golden obsidian has either real gold or pyrite inside. I do know that they are gorgeous stones. What a great haul, congratulations 👏

[@viragbacsi6556]

From the "Nepalese" bag (Im currently in the country) I guess the metal is called "Tibetan silver". Look it up! It gets yellowish with time.

[@Kera.S.]

I watch the gem channel all the time and I think they said cold beads were gemstones but I'm like aren't glass beads going to be the temperature of the air of its environment?

[@reagangardner7919]

This is the best haul EVER!!!!!!!!!

[@gretchen-f7p]

the metal was in the beginning of the first haul vid as was the marble in the first haul too.

[@alexiblackwell9366]

Aleisha you really got your money’s worth on that Haul! Amazing! Hey, are you related to Susan Bailey of Turtle soup Beads? I watch her channel too!

[@kimpeasester]

MAYBE POT METAL. I JUST LEARNED THAT NAME A FEW DAYS AGO AS SHE WAS SHOWING SOME OLD JEWELRY LIKE YOURE SHOWING. I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA THOUGH AND I TOO, MAKE JEWELRY

[@beckyb4074]

At about 2:47 where she mentioned that acetate would remove the paint off of crackle beads, would this also work to remove the coating on old glass pearls that the coating is coming off anyways? Also can these same beads be colored with alcohol inks or something similar to replace the coating that was removed, so I could use the beads for something? Or should I just trash them? Anyone that knows can answer please. Thank you in advance. Take care and God bless you and yours. Sincerely Becky B from Arkansas

[@cindyjones3216]

Also, AC More did close all 145 stores but Michael's took over some of their product lines.

[@gigilongtime2891]

Wow you got a deal of a lifetime some of this stuff is pretty amazing

[@kimberlygries6517]

at 18:30 those dark pink beads could be a really good quality strawberry quartz

[@gatheringmoss5726]

The strands of freshwater pearls at 1:30 aren't worth $350. I suspect it was a multi strand necklace that had a 14K clasp and someone cut it off. The pearls are knotted in between, so that's what tells me it was a necklace and not strands of pearls for sale. An amazing haul!!

[@sftraub]

Some of the first bag look like Tibetan/Nepalese turquoise then some African and middle eastern items. It’s not all Nepalese. The less refined items would be Middle Eastern tribal stuff. The bead that looks like an hourglass is an African design, modern, not vintage and made for commercial sale. Beads between are most likely brass that’s patinated and some kind of silver but not sterling unless marked. I see open seams and lesser refinement so it’s most likely made for the fashion market and not collected from tribal sources. It’s not high end craftsmanship and not very old. The old stuff has excellent hand crafted refinement and detail. These first couple of bags are produced in modern times for commercial sale most likely Chinese and other imports for sale here in the fashion and craft markets. The first faceted rectangle hot pink beads are regular quartz that’s faceted and dyed pink.

[@debkincaid2891]

You should definitely get some of that appraised. IF that's real, quality turquoise, that's expensive.

[@OdeInWessex]

The dark red beads at 50.46 look a bit like Chinese Sea Bamboo simulated Coral - I have some of the smaller ones and I agree they are very beautiful - and I'm not a bit red fan either but that Dark Cherry is lovely.

[@AngelicaCompany]

Lol right before you said those pearls look like chicken feet I did lol and now I’m giggling. What a haul!

[@glendamenendez9433]

What do you use to clean your jewelry?

[@carylfontaine3640]

INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!

[@jeanniecawley1686]

Nothing compares to the shine of Swarovski

[@lindadebolt379]

Omg!! I would love to get a haul like that!!

[@janetrobertshaw6487]

The blue gem looks like Howlite not turquoise?

[@patriciamorgan6545]

If from Nepal, they are "Nepalese". You might be able to glue the bail back on that glass starfish with crazy glue, then keep it for yourself.😉 Amazing haul!

[@gretchen7894]

Awua marine,and the green and red is ruby zosite

[@gretchen-f7p]

all of one bag is all mother of pearl that is dyed in ur first vid,halfway thru it

[@debbie8935]

At 21:02 could they be dyed Riverstone?

[@leslienakagawa8747]

The metal is called white brass, I believe

[@felisiabrim4721]

R u willing to part with the eiffel tawor

[@Carol-tz4ou]

The shape that you're looking at there is called a faceted cushion-cut

[@sylviacopeland-p3c]

Love your hauls

[@reactblack1707]

Bronze must be cast, hence these items are not bronze @6:40

[@debbiwestgard442]

Howlite isn’t man made but can be dyed many colors.

[@artbyamalk]

1:19:40 those are hat pins I think

[@coronajewelry]

first bag i think they are Tibetan beads

[@gretchen7894]

Brass is yellow gold color

[@debflorosdebluvsjewelry5714]

2:12:16 is AMAZING

[@norskichick]

! ! ! ! ! YES, it’s gorgeous!

[@melissaknod7129]

I'm so jelly girl LMBO ugh😍🔥💕😂 love you thou

[@RubyGirlJewels]

I'm jelly too!!!

[@kbowler9266]

It's time to do a new storage video

[@alexiblackwell9366]

AC Moore was bought out by Michaels

[@debflorosdebluvsjewelry5714]

2:11:29 Looks dyed (blue pendant)

[@gretchen7894]

Thats pink marble

[@carriesunshine5742]

The pearls thats says $350, 10k gold. Most likely it was a pearl necklace she bought that broke.

[@bethgregoire3104]

I have a 20lb box of beads from someone which includes some vintage beads as well as more modern beads. I would be willing to sell it for $65 including shipping. When I ordered it from the person I didn't realize how many beads were in it. There are mostly things I can't use. Are you interested?

[@debflorosdebluvsjewelry5714]

21:33 are definitely dyed stone

[@michellepernula872]

9:39 green jadite or jade

[@Carol-tz4ou]

The word that you looking for girliest pumice that is called

[@gretchen-f7p]

ruby zosite

[@gretchen-f7p]

howlite is not! manmade

[@香唯希久保]

ビズがうのもすぎです

[@winsome6705]

Ahhhhhhhhh

[@jeanniecawley1686]

24 mins think jade

[@deborahhandzofpraise3115]

Huuuuuge haul!!!

[@kathsmith5064]

Sorry but I can see why she hasn't sold that in 15 years. Not my cup of tea.

[@ryankoeppe1916]

Same but hey to each their own, ones mans trash as the saying goes lol