Here's a crocheted slider bead I did when I first learned to do beaded crochet. These are fun and fast. I like making the "Bead Soup" for them.

Since this is cooking with beads, I have to make a mention about bead soup!

There's a great article on making Bead Soup by Emiliy Hackberth on http://www.about.com/ in the beading section. This site has good info and educational articles on beading, as well as how to do tons of stitches.

The recipe for bead soup:

http://beadwork.about.com/library/weekly/aa031901a.htm