I have a ton of beads, and most of them came from the craft store and were painted up by the 100's in minutes. Just take your darker pink, red, white, or purple beads, put them in a gallon Ziploc, and put in a drop of pink acrylic paint about the size of a pea.

Seal it up with air in it and shake like a mf'r for 30 seconds or so, and pour them all out on wax paper making sure they aren't touching each other...and in two minutes you will have "$100 worth of beads" for four bucks and five minutes of your time.

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. While there are lots of "fins" involved in fishing beads, there are no "feathers"...makes nymphing look like a purist pursuit...there's nothing even remotely "flyfishing" about it, no matter what kind if fishing rod you use ;-)