Thinking Thursday...Storing Left-Over Seed Beads



How do you store your left-over seed beads? Not new one's, but the one's that you have just a little bit left. Not enough for a complete project, but enough to embellish something.

So, I'm thinking today that I may want to change the way I store my left-over seed beads. I already have a terrific storage system for my other beads that serves me quite well, but what about those darned seed beads?

The picture above is how I store my left-over stash. I keep them in little plastic bags in one of those tiny drawer chests that men use to store their hardware. Of course, one drawer per color (pink, red, orange, yellow, etc.)

I prefer to keep my full-supply stash in a dresser drawer in the studio and also prefer to use the same brand Japanese seed beads for uniformity in my pieces. However, I tend to inherit a lot of people's left-over stash (as well as my own), and I guess I was thinking of different ways of storing them without spending a small fortune. Sheesh, storage boxes can be so expensive!

Maybe I already have this simplified as much as I could possibly have. That's where you come in. Perhaps you have a better storage system than me and would like to share....

So, how do you store your left over seed beads?