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  cinder said:

  I don't know if anyone has suggested it yet for storage-I have found spice racks (the little bottles on a carousal of some sort) are great for storing beads so they are kept dust free and easy to see and dump in and out of the containers.  I have found old ones in thrift shops and garage sales and sometimes a good deal at a store. Having my beads in clear glass containers seems to work best for me as I get ideas just by looking at them.

  February 9, 2009 2:05 PM
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  miragedweller said:

  I didn't start out the New Year with a goal of organizing my beading supplies, but when I received a software program for keeping inventory, a need for a new way to sort my supplies became a must. Instead of boxes of loose beads that I would fondle to find that ONE bead, all my stash is now being bagged and numbered. When browsing through a favored antique shop, an old 20 drawer printers cabinet just called my name(yes,just like those beads do). The drawers are very large and only about an inch deep-perfect for laying all those bags in and still keeping things organized by type- and visible!

  Now my storage will blend in with the other furniture in  the house,and keep me better organized! I'm sure other styles like map  chests would work just as well if you like the idea of having this type of open drawer storage for bagged supplies.

  I will miss running my fingers through those loose beads,though!

  February 9, 2009 9:50 PM
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  catillac said:

  Want I have started to do is place my beads in medicine containers. I label them with the color and size, this help me when I need to get a certain color and a certain size bead for the project I'm working on. I use these method mostly for my crystals and small round beads

  February 12, 2009 11:53 AM
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  2moonshye said:

  I've found that multiple coat hooks (or an expanding accordian style hat rack) on the wall in my dressing area are a great place to hang my non-tarnishing necklaces and bracelets.  For those that tarnish, I have a drawer that I've lined with tarnish resistant material and I lay another piece of material over them.  I HATE polishing silver!

  February 16, 2009 7:40 PM
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  Mimzee said:

  I designated a corner of a room with a corner desk,and on one side, a short 3 shelf bookcase, on the other, a tall bookcase, and two more short bookcases paralelling the other short one, like a 'horseshoe'. in the short ones, I stacked plastic drawers from Dollar General, and above them, narrow shelves to hold 'in progress projects', on small baking trays with beading blankets. The large bookcase has all my Bead and Button magazines, set up on wire file racks from Walmarts, with the covers all visable, as they tier upward, and a shelf to hold a tool rack, and other things like colored pencils in a ceramic jar, etc.It takes up less than 4 feet of the room in width, and 8 ft in length, and looks so organized and business-like, I FEEL like getting down to busy-ness!!And the tray racks are great to just slide a work in progress into.

  February 17, 2009 2:40 AM
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  Editors' Blog said:

  Every time we wrap up an issue, I take some time to clean up my workspace. The busier I’ve been, the

  March 13, 2009 1:41 PM
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  Editors' Blog said:

  This time each year, my jewelry starts to multiply as Bead&Button Show finds work their way into

  June 15, 2009 1:12 PM
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  BeadStyle said:

  This time each year, my jewelry starts to multiply as Bead&Button Show finds work their way into

  June 15, 2009 1:19 PM