Wooden bead care

[Seahorse]

Seeing as there are 'wooden' people here I thought this the best place to ask.
Ive been working with wooden beads recently, I was thinking about care of sts pieces so now Im thinking about care of wooden beads.

As Ive read on this forum about certain work warping I thought it the best place to ask.

[Seahorse]

Ive submerged most of my wood beads in water to see what happens, so far so good.

I also had a dilemma.
I bought some flat wooden beads and I wanted to rubber stamp onto them.I di this but found the wood was too dark for anything to show up.
My 'light bulb' moment came when I thought I could sandpaper the beads and hopefully lighter wood would appear underneath,.....luckily that was the case and I can stamp on them now!!