seed bead storage

[stitchingmae]

Well I think thanks to a sampler called save the stitches. From the blackworkjourney.co.uk (its in the freebie section) I am finally going to attempt black work and beading all in the same project. Anyways, for those of you that bead how do you all store your sead beeds? I need something that does not take up tons of room. I have seen the stackers etc, but so far I don't really like the traditional means. LoL. Truly I don't need to spend that much yet as this will be my first beading project, but I am just curious as to what you all use?

[CuriousKitty]

I have a couple of different methods, I'm not sure what you mean by stackers, however this is what I use:

Unopened Seed Beads:





Opened Charms & Beads. This includes seed beads, glass beads of 1-4mm or more, charms and a few random other things. Almost all of the little charms and baubles are for masquerade masques that I've made. When I have another box like you see here, I'll migrate my unopened seed beads there.

[meganh]

I like your system, where do you get all the little round containers?

[CuriousKitty]

I buy them from JoAnn's.

http://www.joann.com/darice-stackable-b ... 34940.html" target="_blank

Took me a bit to find it, it's about 4 dollars cheaper than it used to be when I bought my three- hence why I couldn't find it. I was looking in the $10+ section.

Although looking at the description, it says 30 containers, mine have 28 (two longer containers you see holding my enormous amount of white seed beads). However, I think it's close enough. I like my containers because they're small and tidy and fit into my sliding drawer cabinets (well the big drawers since there's three of them).

10 3/4" long, 5" wide, 1 3/4" high

27cm long, 13cm wide, 4.5cm high (since I know there's a good deal of people here that aren't raised on imperial).

[Ainjel333]

I just recently came up with a system for all of my Mill Hill beads. I just use one of the floss boxes and got some little ziplocks to fit in the compartments (I think they are 1"x2") and I labeled each one with the color number and Mill Hill name so they don't accidentally get mixed up with my HOARDS of regular seed beads. And I placed them in the box in numerical order so they are easy to flip through and see.




Curiouskitty, I like your system, and would like to do that with my regular seed beads, but I have so many of each color I would need big containers for each of them.. So they continue to live in small ziplock baggies all inside of a large ziplock baggie until I can think of some better way to store them.

I used to have them just loose each color in a compartment of the floss boxes, but I have so many colors and they are a bugger to try and fish them out of there like that...

[CuriousKitty]

JoAnn's has several containers, and one of them is a box of 25 screw-top containers that might be large enough. You should go check it out- their selection is really nice.

I rarely bead, so those three boxes are the extent of my hoard (however I did just purchase two more of my little boxes since they're so ridiculously cheap, and a little tiny petite chart...)

[stitchingmae]

wow these are all great. I think as of now since I will only be purchasing 1 or two colors I may stick to the tubes they come in, but if i get more I like aingels idea tons!