Thank you so much Ellen, that was so helpful! I think I have a much better idea of what I want to do now, and how to do it. Have you ever bought stones from http://www.chrisanne.com/ ? I know they ship from the UK, and I'm not sure how much shipping costs, but the stones themselves seem very reasonably priced. I was told that I would probably need at least 20 gross per dress, does that sound like a pretty accurate figure? What if I'm planning to stone pretty heavily?