[Nfb-krafters-korner] Seed Bead and Yarn Storage

Sun Aug 8 14:48:47 UTC 2010

Well, I have something sort of different for my seed beads.  I have an Amish 
herb box, which is a round wooden box made from wood strips with a fitted 
lid and then inside is about a dozen smaller round boxes that have the name 
of an herb painted on it.  I have no idea where my first husband found it, 
but it works out perfect for the seed beads.  I can take out the colors I 
need, they are wide enough so I don't have to worry about tipping them over 
while takeing beads out, and I can also use the open lids as another area to 
keep track of needles and other miscellanious items I'm using at the same 
time.  The main box is deep enough that small zip bags can be laid inside 
and kept together, waiting for the next project.

Since I do such a wide variety of crafts, everything must be boxed/packaged 
seperately.  Unfortunately, these boxed/packaged jewls haven't found their 
way to the not quite finished craft room.  My husband, the dear that he is, 
is forever shifting my jewls from place to place.  When the glorious day 
comes and I hang the crafting room plack on the door, my dear sweet husband 
will get the new crafting rule, "Keep your paws off my jewls!".

Susan R.
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
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Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 5:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Seed Bead and Yarn Storage

>I store my seed beeds by color, in the drawers that are in a stack of 
>three. I bought these drawer stacks at Dollar General for about $7. for a 
>stack of three.
> Each drawer hold a color "family." Blues, Greens, Reds, etc.
> I use these drawers for storage of everything in my beading studio. 
> Everything is kept together and easy to find what I need.
> For my yarn storage, I have an entire wall with shelves going from floor 
> to ceiling. Then, on the shelves, are the same kind of drawer units but 
> these one are bigger. Again, all yarns are put into the drawers by type of 
> yarn. I have them labeled on the front, such as:  Mohair, Sock Yarn, Fun 
> Fur, Worsted Wools, etc.
>
> I even have a little baby stack of three drawers that has a handle on top 
> of the unit. I carry this to festivals. Inside this stack of three is a 
> drawer for my price tags, a drawer for plastic bags of all sizes, and the 
> bottom drawer had two pullout units that are divided into three sections 
> each. I got this at Lowes I think. My daughter and I found them, and we 
> bought one for each of my daughters and grand daughters who do crafting. 
> Everyone loves them and they are so convenient for keeping all my sales 
> items together for a festival. You could even use the unit that is divided 
> for a cash box very easily.  Lynda
> Lynda Lambert
> River Road Studio, Since 1976
> www.lyndalambert.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Theresa Taylor" <tct71887 at gmail.com>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help please
>
>
>> Joyce,
>> I collected several plastic containers like butter dishes, yogurt, etc. 
>> and then you can put the plastic bag or bottle with the bar code in the 
>> container with the beads.
>> Another way is there are plastic boxes which have dividers in them. If 
>> you keep the box level...the seed beads will stay in the right 
>> compartment. Then you can label the top. Yet another idea is to go to a 
>> dollar store and find a small unit with drawers. I have one that is about 
>> 8 inches high and it has 3 drawers. I can put the bar label on the 
>> outside of the drawer and they store well in cupboards or on the 
>> ocounter. The other nice thing is that when I go to bead...I can then 
>> just take that set of drawers and use it to help me keep the beads 
>> organize. When I go to grab for another type of seed bead...ZI close the 
>> drawer, so they don't mix.
>> Just some ideas.
>> Theresa
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
>> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:32 PM
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help please
>>
>>
>>> For you beaders out there, please help me figure out what I might use 
>>> for
>>> my beads.  What type of things do you store your beads in?I am thinking 
>>> I
>>> need something that I fcould put size 8 seed beads in and I want to be 
>>> able
>>> to  maybe put 4 or 6 bags [each bag at Fusion Beads are 10 oz. or the 
>>> Dellika
>>> beads  come in 5 oz or is it gram bags.  The bags are maybe 2 by 2 
>>> inches.
>>> I  want it to be easy to open and close.
>>>
>>> I had thought of just getting larger plastic bags from them.
>>>
>>> The beads I purchased from Michael's Crafts came in the tubes and there 
>>> was
>>> barcode labels on them already.  I need to put barcode labels on 
>>> whatever
>>> I  put the beads in as I want to identify them with the ID Mate.
>>>
>>> Ideas please! Help!
>>>
>>> Joyce  Kane
>>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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