i have an issue. i have too many beads. and i love them all. i'm a bead junkie. and sometimes it can get in the way of my crafting. when i have 45 min to toss together a pair of earrings and a matching bracelet or pendent, but i spend 40 minutes trying to pick out the 'best' or 'right' beads to go with my outfit. its not a good thing, then i get stressed and bitchy and my husband rolls his eyes and thinks horrible things about my hobbies.
but i don't have to worry about that any more. because i made bead soup. and don't go scratching your head and thinking "she's doing what now?" i am not eating my beads, i have no desire to know what they taste like.
bead soup - a container full of beads. i have.... 11 or 12 tupperware containers of beadsoup lying in various areas of my house. i sorted them by colors, and they all have the same basic mix of beads inside: pearls, faux pearls, glass, acrylic, crystal, pressed glass, and seed beads. i have black, white, red, purple, blue-aqua, blue-sky, green-grass, green-olive, brown, pink, silver, then i have two that are sorted by type, one of seed beads and one of acrlyic bicones.
when i want to do a little project in one or two colors, it is so much easier to just grab my blue container of beadsoup and the black or silver mix and work out of it. i don't have to search through all my bead storage units, what i need is right in one place and the simplification makes things easy again.
i still get to spend time staring at my bead storage, and fussing over this bead vs that bead, but now when i want speed, i've got it. even if it has a silly name.
oh and if your absentminded like me, and using the same tupperware style as you put real food in, try not to get distracted while you've got a closed container in your hands. The only reason my husband hasn't asked me gently why the freezer is full of beads is sheer luck.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
stuff i love
the internet is full of amazing things.
these are my favs
craftgawker is an amazing site, where you go and see hundreds of pictures of crafts people have made, all the images are also links. there are so many amazing craftspeople online, this website will show a fraction of them, but it is all glorious and gorgeous,
craftser is a great forum site for anything you can craft, you can find discussion, tutorials and some amazing items here. best of all, they have a separate business forum, and don`t allow selling posts in the general forums. because sometimes you just wanna look at stuff.
firemountain gems is where i love to buy my beads. looooooooove to shop here. i try to avoid it when i`m not shopping, because everytime i go there, no matter what i`m supposed to be doing, i end up with an order. i love them because the more items you get, the less they cost.
craftzine is full of awesome. half a billion different projects, tutorials and recipies.
knitty is an awesome knitting zine. The patterns they post are all so lovely. some of the stuff posted here is actually what inspired me to pick up some knitting needles.
crochet me is a great crochet zine. they`ve become a little heavy on the ads though, which is why they are only great. some awesome patterns though and their printed affiliate is also great.
these are my favs
craftgawker is an amazing site, where you go and see hundreds of pictures of crafts people have made, all the images are also links. there are so many amazing craftspeople online, this website will show a fraction of them, but it is all glorious and gorgeous,
craftser is a great forum site for anything you can craft, you can find discussion, tutorials and some amazing items here. best of all, they have a separate business forum, and don`t allow selling posts in the general forums. because sometimes you just wanna look at stuff.
firemountain gems is where i love to buy my beads. looooooooove to shop here. i try to avoid it when i`m not shopping, because everytime i go there, no matter what i`m supposed to be doing, i end up with an order. i love them because the more items you get, the less they cost.
craftzine is full of awesome. half a billion different projects, tutorials and recipies.
knitty is an awesome knitting zine. The patterns they post are all so lovely. some of the stuff posted here is actually what inspired me to pick up some knitting needles.
crochet me is a great crochet zine. they`ve become a little heavy on the ads though, which is why they are only great. some awesome patterns though and their printed affiliate is also great.
Monday, November 22, 2010
welcome
so welcome to wired galaxy, i hope you`ll come back often.
This is my business blog. thats right, expect lots of crafting talk, and lots of posts about my etsy store.
I craft everything and anything i can get my hands on. Crochet, jewellery, wood carving, card making, scrapbooking, knitting, mosaic and several more. But i don`t sell all of it.
When my store reopens in january it will be selling jewellery in a few different collections, and the odd scarf or sitch counter set will show up from time to time. I love dark, gothic, fae and steampunk styles, so keep your eyes here if thats what you like too!
As i work on building the business up, i`ll be posting here with teaser images, up coming trends, tutorials, techniques, tips, book-magazine-tutorial reviews and half a billion other things.
If you have a google account, you can follow this blog, and if you have a twitter you can follow us under wiredgalaxy over there too.
In the future, blog and twitter posts will include give aways and coupons, so make sure to keep your eyes on one, the other or both!
This is my business blog. thats right, expect lots of crafting talk, and lots of posts about my etsy store.
I craft everything and anything i can get my hands on. Crochet, jewellery, wood carving, card making, scrapbooking, knitting, mosaic and several more. But i don`t sell all of it.
When my store reopens in january it will be selling jewellery in a few different collections, and the odd scarf or sitch counter set will show up from time to time. I love dark, gothic, fae and steampunk styles, so keep your eyes here if thats what you like too!
As i work on building the business up, i`ll be posting here with teaser images, up coming trends, tutorials, techniques, tips, book-magazine-tutorial reviews and half a billion other things.
If you have a google account, you can follow this blog, and if you have a twitter you can follow us under wiredgalaxy over there too.
In the future, blog and twitter posts will include give aways and coupons, so make sure to keep your eyes on one, the other or both!
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