SRS, I've designed and made jewelery using stone beads and other "natural" parts (StonePeople Designs©) for over ten years and never had a wholesaler's license. I don't do it as much anymore, but when I did I bought a lot of stuff from Fire Mountain Gems. There's also Rio Grande. I also have a bunch of bookmarks of places online which have pretty good prices and do not have any minimum requirements or need for resale number. I wouldn't bother with it, if I were you, unless you get really serious and start doing a bunch of shows or a lot of selling to the general public.

My youngest daughter got into it with me, at one point, and we had a lot of fun sitting at the table seeing what we could create. Have fun! If you want any of those bookmarks, please let me know and I will post them. Also, if you need to find rockshops, certain kinds of stone beads, specialty ones etc. I had one client who bought over 30 custom designed necklace and earrings sets all of which had stone rabbit beads of some sort. She was nuts about rabbits, SO I know where to find stone critters of all kinds!**bg**

kat