[Nfb-krafters-korner] containers for beading projects

Wed Aug 11 01:12:19 UTC 2010

Hmm, I forgot.  It's bigger than five letters.  My mind can't wrap itself around it.  *laughing as I drown amidst my millions of bone beads*  Whose idea was it to start this project, anyway?  It couldn't have possibly been mine.  It's those gremlins in my basement, or was it the spiders?  I can't be sure.  *grin*

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Sahar Husseini
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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Zimmer, Cindy 
  To: List for blind crafters and artists 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] containers for beading projects

  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*

  Warm regards,
  Sahar Husseini
  For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, Please visit my Website at
  www.saharscreations.com
  And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
  Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
  Michael Jordan
    ----- 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
    > ----- 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
    >
    >
    >> 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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