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Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Bead Boxes

I am organizationally-challenged. I admit it. But even I had to acknowledge that my bead hoarding was getting outta control and needed to be corralled. As in stowing my beads neatly out of the way, not as in stopping buying them, of course! So it was that I went to Michaels and bought a bunch of bead boxes, and today, I spent much of the day putting things away. And a good thing, too, because I have three whole boxes just of pendants and drops! I have these rolling towers of drawers, but they were really getting full, and I didn't like them all that much, because the beads slid across the bottoms and knocked into each other every time I pulled a drawer open, and not only did that scratch some of the softer minerals, but it was beginning to be difficult to find things, what with all the mounds of beads and pendants piling up in each drawer. So now most of my beads are put away in nice little neat compartmental boxes, and tomorrow I can sort through and organize all my stringing supplies and findings. Maybe then I'll be so motivated, I'll clean off my desk. I kinda doubt it, but you never know. :)

Ciao,
Jenie

2 Comments:

Blogger Silver Parrot said...

Hi Jenie,

Just wanted to compliment you on your blog! I saw your post on Kandice Seeber's list and had to check it out. I user Blogger.com, too, but haven't figured out how to host it on my own server like you have...great job! And, I hear ya on the whole tax/inventory thing. Blech! Let's get back to beading! See ya!
KJ (aka Silver Parrot)

12:29 PM  
Blogger Silver Parrot said...

Oh and I forgot one more thing...if you like those organizer boxes from Michael's you should check out the box/tube combos at http://www.beyondbeadery.com I have all my stuff in those and THEN put inside the "tower drawers." Everything's protected and the li'l boxes are totally portable so I can take 'em wherever I'm working.

11:56 AM  

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