Made some peyote beaded beads with some gunmetal Toho beads over a really really fake pearl. The pearl actually started out white, but for some reason I dropped a bunch of them into a cup where a black leather cord had been soaking (getting the creases out) and they took on a bluish tint from the cord's dyes. They looked better after that, so I kept them rather than throwing them out as I originally intended.
Any way, if you want to know how to make beaded beads, I did a post on it here.