These Fimo nifty beads seem to be a matter of patience but the results are certainly cool! You could do a variety of flower beads like this – I remember seeing rose ball beads – for people according to their favourite flowers.
Check out this book on how to make polymer clay flowers.
The flower ball beads are beautiful, but the instructions are in French. I saw no way to translate on the site.
ah! Google will translate whole pages for you if you need it to – go to http://translate.google.com/ and in the box put the web page address. Voila, translated page.