Some of the best afternoons in Nebraska start with a wrong turn into a strip of quiet storefronts you’ve driven past a hundred times. Behind one unremarkable door sits a room packed wall to wall with tiny glass beads sorted by shape, size, and finish, plus a table where people settle in with a warm cup and work on a project for hours.
Nobody rushes you out. It’s the kind of place you walk into looking for one thing and leave having learned how to crimp a wire.
A Bead Store Hiding in West Omaha
Glass beads by the thousands, sorted into trays and tubes, fill a compact shop off 110th Court in west Omaha. Foxy Squirrel Bead & Boutique isn’t a chain craft aisle with dusty plastic bins.
It’s a specialist shop run by one person who knows what every tube contains…