I received a couple packages from The Hole Bead Shoppe and House of Gems in the mail this last week... YAY Me!! Most of the beady goodness was placed with projects just waiting for this or that and then a couple new ideas sparked and beads came out for that and I crossed that line into overwhelm. I can work with a lot of beads out, but I couldn't even see my desk anymore! This is what it looked like AFTER I cleaned and put some things away. What you don't see are three stacks of trays to the left and two to the right or any of the tools that live on my desk! No the file doesn't live there, it lives in a drawer to the right.
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| There IS a desk under there somewhere! |
Completely overwhelmed I had too many ideas, too many projects I wanted to play with right now and all my trays were in use. So I decided, I would work on one small sketch for earrings (they had been waiting on the Coral and Sterling Silver beads I got from House of Gems), then I'd play with the awesome kit I got from The Hole Bead Shoppe and then I could get to work on my idea for Stringing Magazine (that's one of those spin off/sparked ideas lol)
The small coral beads I got from House of Gems were perfect for the earrings I had drawn in sketch number 8. I had some Bali style silver drum beads I thought would look just gorgeous paired with some turquoise and coral and I think I was right, but I'll let you be the judge of that. I think these will be the matching earrings to an embroidered piece I'm getting ready to work on with lots more coral and turquoise! If it lives up to the design in my head it will be a stunner!! At the very least gorgeous :)
One of the things I ordered from House of Gems was a divided bead tray/organizer. I have several triangle trays and they are perfection for pouring beads back into their tubes or baggies but I have the really bad habit of setting tools down right next to them while they're full of beads. You guessed it, I flip a tray pretty much every time I use one, sigh. I've seen the little egg trays and water color paint trays used but I just knew I'd have the same problem of flipping them only multiplied! So when I saw this little gem I had to give him a go!
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| It's Lidded!! |
This little tray is cool! Not only is it a solid bottom with very little chance of flipping but it's lidded! That's right, I can close the lid and walk away without putting my beads away or worrying about the fur babies flipping trays while I'm not there to protect the little beadies. It has 8 compartments so I can have beads for more than one project in it, say like now while I'm waiting for an order of more of those sweet beads, and I get to work on that necklace idea for a submittal to Stringing Magazine. AND because the compartments are triangular they pour back into baggies pretty nicely themselves. I haven't tried a tube yet but I've got several pulled for projects on the desk....
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| Design by Rae Burns of The Hole Bead Shoppe |
Well, I'd better get going! I'm pretty sure there was one more thing on the to do list today if I can just remember what it was!! .....
Thanks for stoppin by!
We'll see ya next time!
Oh my goodness, I NEED to get some of those containers! When I was 13 and started beading the process always took forever because it involved accidentally flipping my whole container of beads and having to pick them out of my long carpet. Ugh! These days my process involves getting a little bit out at a time and always closing the lid in between, which results in less spills, but these look like a real time saver. It's also great that you can dump supplies out of just one compartment at a time. Am I the only one who ends up dipping supplies out of the rectangle boxes with a spoon?
ReplyDeleteMy daughter had hers on her dresser, the cat knocked it off, the lid popped open and the entire box dumped into the carpet. I don't think we ever got them all up. Just about the time we got them sorted the cat knocked the box off the dresser again. She was heart broken over it. Ever since then whatever I store in those types of box stays in its baggie or tube for safety. I love this container though, It is my absolute favorite and I use it a lot!
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