Results: What’s on your worktable?
January 16, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Artist Communities, Question of the Month
Remember the question of the month? What’s on your worktable? You are still welcome to send in your offerings!
Stephie Hall writes:
Princess Jewellry
I’m lucky enough to have my work spread across two rooms 
This is my beady space photos! There are several hundred thousand other beads as well because I sell them for a living But they live in the stock room – this is my personal stuff.
Pic 1 – my supplies table – tools, stringing material, sorted beads for work-in-progress, unsorted beads (in the tubs) because they’re ones I *want* to do something with, sterling findings, GF findings and 9k findings
Pic 2 – work in progress – a half made pendant, an almost finished bracelet. There are various other in-progress bits in the room, those just happened to be on the desk (I did take them out their bags for the pic though!) and the tray is full of either individual lose beads that I fell in love with, and some beads that came into stock recently that I just *had* to have some for myself! Sadly the chocolates tin is not full of chocs!
Pic 3 – the less used stuff! There’s a bunch of work-in-progress and repair items in one of the tubs, a silver and gold scrap tub, ceramic beads, seed beads, loose glass beads in the yellow tubs and on the shelf above an assortment of jewellery books and magazines. The packed box of bagged beads belongs to a beading friend who has yet to collect them!
I’m not a tidy artist!
heehee – thanks for posting those Cyndi. Thats actually reasonably organised for me as well
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I live in a small basement apartment, so my biggest problem with beading (a relatively new hobby) is lack of space for work or storage. My kitchen table is constantly covered in bead stuff, mostly arranged in metal photo-boxes from IKEA. I have to decide on a project by what I remember of my inventory, then find it, and work on that until I am done. I am so ready to move to a larger place…