[Nfb-krafters-korner] containers for beading projects

Mon Aug 9 22:38:50 UTC 2010

I have several types of fishing tackeles for storage. I also find that 
cleaned out pill bottles are good for storage too

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] containers for beading projects

> Yes, I too have such a box in which I store larger beads. I bought mine in 
> the carpenter stuff area of the hardware store. It might be a fishing 
> tackle box, too. Anyway, if you can buy your containers in a hardware 
> store they are usually much less expensive than when you buy them in a 
> "craft" store. You can find lots of storage things in the Dollar Tree, 
> Dollar General, and my favorite things are in the old fashioned hardware 
> store for best prices on them.
>
> Lynda Lambert
> River Road Studio, Since 1976
> www.lyndalambert.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Henrietta Brewer" <gary.brewer at comcast.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] containers for beading projects
>
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>> Hi Joyce,
>> I use a plastic container made for storing screws and such in a work 
>> shop. Mine has about thirty drawers. I can take a drawer out and take it 
>> to my work area.  I label the fronts with the color and size. I used 
>> braille, but with the pen friend it would be easy to add all the info you 
>> want.
>>
>> My hand fits into the drawers, plastic rectangle shaped boxes, easily and 
>> so do most of the tubes and plastic bags.
>> HenriettaAt 10:53 AM 8/8/2010, you wrote:
>>>I used to use film canisters.  If you have a photography shop in your 
>>>town,
>>>sometimes they have those canisters left over from developing film.  That
>>>being said, with the digital photography boon over the past few years 
>>>this
>>>may be an obsolete idea.
>>>
>>>
>>>I also used to keep my project in a flat box, like a Tupperware deli
>>>container, or a cigar box or even more wonderful to obtain a Whitman's
>>>sampler box, smile,  with a piece of felt lining the bottom.  This kept 
>>>the
>>>beads from rolling around, so I could place a bit in one place and have 
>>>them
>>>stay put.
>>>
>>>Let's see, oh, Baby food jars, or now they are little plastic boxes make
>>>nice small project containers.
>>>
>>>Finally, if all these don't work, my beading store used to sell little 
>>>glass
>>>bottles with plastic snap on tops for storing beads.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Dixie
>>>
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>>[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>>>Blindhands at aol.com
>>>Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:32 AM
>>>To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>>>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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>> Henrietta
>> ~I wish you enough~
>>
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