Anyone used water storing beads for centrepieces??

They are fab, and a small pot really does make loads. You'll need to make them up a good 48 hours or so before you want to use them to make sure they're full-sized, and they last for absolutely ages (basically, as long as they're wet, they'll hold water). You certainly won't need to top them up during the day. Full-sized, there a little bit smaller than frog spawn; if you want them to stay circular don't pack too many into your vases, The more you put it, the more gel-like they'll become as they squash together.

we are using them for our venue, this is a quick mock up, will be using more beads on the day , we r going to make them up the day b4, the beads i have say to soak them for 8 hours

Oooh these look fab! Will have to look out for these :-)

Ooh those look and sound great! Are they expensive?

I found these in au natural for one pound a pack!

Mine are from a place called latifs they cost 89 p a pack

Thanks for the replies everyone, very helpful and I am no longer scared of them ballooning up to monstrous proportions lol!

I got mine from Ebay, they were really quite cheap, and the little packs are so tiny, its great, I thought I would have to find room to store a huge mountain of beads or something but these are tiny!

We used them with underwater lights.

The venue did them for us and you need to put the beads in water 24 hours beforehand, or at least that is what the instructions say. We massively overestimated how many we would need and the kitchen in the venue had gel beads bouncing all over the place.

I use them all the time, 8-10 hrs is usually long enough to soak them. If you use distilled water they tend to be a lot bigger pearls. They do go a long way, you can fill an 80cm Lily vase with under 1pk.

I'm using them too, some bright orange ones I got from Ebay. They reflect so much light!

I love the idea of the underwater light, I might get some too now ?