My first set started with wooden beads, then glass beads, then a couple plastic silver painted ones. Then I combed all but 10 out at 5-6mo.
My second set has had wooden beads (to hide the bands at the tips. Those are out now.), and then a hair wrap (reeeeeeaaaallly bad loop!), and now nothing. I try to only wear headbands and bandanas on "bad dread days" usually the 2-3 days before washing. I'm trying to let these be more "free" and light than my old ones.

lots and lots of silver *drool*

gold sewing thread (used to submit some very out of control loops) and very small freshwater pearl beads and moss jasper beads tied in with the sewing thread.

Well..... (reaches into the mass of mayhem)

two silver rings, one with stars on it, the other with a piece of black onyx
two large barnacles from the oceans, and two hermit crab shells (which, through natural erosion have become perfect beads)
a long hemp wrap with a piece of quartz crystal from tibet wrapped at the end.
two short feathers
a piece of hematite
three small, thin metal beads which adorn the ends or the thinner sections of my dreads
five wooden beads, one of which is made of bamboo
a piece of bone cut into a perfect, white bead
Lots of string and rainbow colored sewing thread from all the strange little things that have been in my hair over the years
Until recently, when they broke and/or fell out: a sand dollar, and a glass bead made from the stem of a shattered pipe (adorned with a cute little frog. Called it my "tree frog")
... and, dreads from four other really special friends dreaded in too :-)

Some people don't know whether to be amazed or disgusted by these mutant dreadies....

Some silver Filigree beads scattered throughout, spinny dice, a tiny glass bead or two, two tiny silver bells, a couple funky toerings, a baby ring. Formally; parts of a grateful dead spinner ring (it resided on "The Grateful Dread", my only named knap), big glass beads, bone beads, wood beads, bottle caps, lighter tops, and just about anything else I found pretty or different.


I met a girl who had a fork in her dreads once.

wow amazing responses!!! it's amazing how different everyones dreads can be, so unique! you all sound like you have very beautiful amazing dreads!! thanks for all the posts! i hope more people are inspired to show off whats in their beautiful dreads like you all have!!

heaps of stuff
beads of all different shapes, sizes and materials (glass, ceramic, metal, plastic, wood...)
a yarn dread that my granny made for me
a dread of my friend's hair.
a pink ribbon
a blue one but it fell out
a VT commemorative ribbon
a diamante from a formal I went to
a safety pin with a bead on it
some copper wire out of an old tv my friend pulled apart
some small metal stars.
a button/pin/badge with 'radiate' written on.
some funky hand-dyed yarn wrapped around a dread

I have quite a bit of stuff, I worry that I will fill up my dreads now, and not be able to put more stuff higher up later when they are longer. But I am sure it will all work out.

(la dia de muerta) bone bead and two jingley bells

I got...

A triskele pendant that I found in my letter box
a cowrie shell
a lot of embroidery thread
some gold thread
a sea snail shell of some description
some shell rings I found on the beach
a piece of paua shell
a big red wooden bead
a big blue mottled glass bead
some little blue and pink glass beads

Used to have:
a wee silver spiral medallion
a little elephant charm off a bracelet given to me by a friend

Man, I look like I've been dragged backwards through the sea!

At the moment... nothing! It's sad to think that my hair is bare at the moment, but it's too much hassle for me to take it all out, and then put it all back in when I have clinic at Uni, so I'm totally bare for the next few months. I'm bargaining with the administrator to let me put a few wraps back in, he seems to be yielding.

Usually I have multi-colored from embroidery cotton or hemp yarn in there with bells, charms or beads hanging on the end, gold filigree dread 'beads' I bought from ebay and random beads and bobbles in there I even I have the few faux leather thong wraps in there. When I dress it up I add ribbons, flowers and feathers, etc. I like to dress it up a lot :P

Nothing permanent, since mine are still in the developmental period, but just for tying up, i tell you...craft stores are wonderful places for dreddies! I have found a long strand of little embroidered yellow flowers, ribbons, lace, tassles....yummmm..and last i went i was eyeing these things that were meant to hold knitting needles together, these cool brightly colored coils.

my favorite bead in my last set was a little sun pendant i attached to the bottom of one...ooh, and an amber teardrop with a little bug inside it :)

Nothing right now but I am making some dread beads/twists/spirals and stuff...would anyone like some? I would be happy to send some out =)

Also, an idea I have for Halloween is to make little snake heads in different poses and attach them to my ends to pull off a Medusa look...I could even pose them with some wire either in or wrapped around the dread.

I thought I would reply to my own post haha, more of an update of the things I've found to put in my hair...Since posting this, I've added colored wraps to the roots of a few of my dreadies in brown, blue, tan and white, a few shells, natural wood beads in different shades of brown, and a few pretty wooded red oriental beads my mom bought for me =] (she loves the fact that she can buy me silly things to put in my hair now), and I bought some pretty colored ribbons for use later =] I wanted to thank you all for your replies and good ideas...I wish I could find snake vertebrae for my hair, but I don't know anywhere that would sell it in my neck of the woods...Any ideas?
Peace and love =]
*Kit

Sadly, nothing yet. I can't decide what I should put in them. I ususally just have them pulled up in pig tails and a big stretchy head band.

Large wooden beads that are now part of the dread. A smaller blue flower glass bead and some unique African beads that I threaded onto hemp rope and wove onto a dread.
Going to get some color on them in a few weeks for the first time and hopefully they won't mess up any of the beads.