Beads and buttons

I've been crocheting a lot more jewelry lately, and starting to think more about decorations, either in the body, or as a clasp. Which has lead me to Beadworks, to get light beads that have a large enough hole for my crochet thread to go through, and to Windsor Button Shop, to get buttons with a large enough shank to crochet through (but still fairly light and on the small side). Neither had exactly what I was hoping for (though I did find things of use :-), so I'm looking for suggestions of other places to check. (Online is less useful than somewhere Boston-centric, since I prefer to be able to check that I can get thread or hook through the holes.)

Farm bounty, week 9

Lots and lots of stuff, at least by weight.

• three pounds of tomatoes (one heirloom tomato)
  
• a head of lettuce (I chose red leaf.)
  
• a bell pepper (I chose one partly molted to red.)
  
• a head of garlic
  
• a pound of beets (no greens)
  
• two pounds of potatoes (red-skinned)
  
• two small heads of fennel
  
• a choice of a bunch of kale or a head of cabbage (green or purple, either about the size of a baseball or just a bit larger. I took a cute purple cabbage.)
  
• two yellow seeded watermelons (small, for watermelons, large for carrying a mile)

So now I ponder: dig up those tomato-watermelon-feta salad recipes that were floating around a couple of weeks ago? Make watermelon rind pickles? (What to do with them afterward? I don't have a tradition of odd sweet pickles.) Maybe some kind of lurid magenta beet salad? (I think I have a mental block on salads with beets in them due to my parents getting beets at salad bars when I was young; I was, for some reason, really repulsed by how the other salad around it magenta-ized. I should get over it, though, since I like beets. I just need to figure out how to use them in things, rather than as a standalone.)

Side note: I still have the fennel from last week. I might make a little bitty batch of roasted fennel, if I roast the beets (and maybe the garlic, since I have last week's head, too).