[Nfb-krafters-korner] containers for beading projects

Tue Aug 10 13:13:10 UTC 2010

Sahar, and just what is the O word around your house?  lol 

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From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sahar Husseini
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:38 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] containers for beading projects

Oh, I love storing my split rings, crimps, and headpins in pill bottles.  They're fabulous for that.  Yikes, I am 443 messages behind on this list!  I decided this weekend to sort my bone beads.  They're the beads I started working with back in 1999, and in the first couple of years, I made a ton of bone necklaces.  Needless to say, I hadn't worked with bone in a long time because, in part, I looked at my bags of bone beads, and they were an amazing mess beyond even my disordered mind.  Needless to say, putting the right beads in the right bags took a whole day.  I kept asking myself, why on earth would I not have that organized to begin with?  Why did I not keep the same beads that are the same shapes and carvings in the same spot?  Well, my 29-30 something-year old wasn't anywhere around to answer those questions, so I shook my head often and kept plugging away!  By the end of the day, I felt like someone beat me up!  What did I learn from that?  I hear people talking about organization and what a good idea it is, and my poor aching head and back found themselves agreeing with that wise statement.  We'll see what happens with the O word around this house.  *laughing*

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Sahar Husseini
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Laurie Porter 
  To: List for blind crafters and artists 
  Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 5:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] containers for beading projects

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

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  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
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  > 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
  >
  >
  >> 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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  >>>that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O 
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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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