These past couple of weeks I’ve been making my flat/apartment into a little hub of business-ness. Last month our building owners announced that they were going to change the floor to ceiling windows on one side of each apartment into sliding doors and they needed to measure each unit. We had to clear any furniture and ornaments away from the windows – so LOOOONG story SHORT = that was the time to do a major tidy of my little abode. It’s time to start treating my home like a home / business / glamarama workstation or Twinkle Station or Glam Home Twinkle Office . . . see how easily I get distracted.

I’ve also done a major tidy up of my unworkable bead storage system. When I first started making jewellery I had the “brilliant” (read: stupid) idea of putting each separate colour group of beads into one big glass jar – all blue beads in one jar, pink beads in another etc. It would take me ages to find the beads I wanted and by the time I’d fished them out I had either 1. forgotten what I’d originally wanted to make; or 2. I had taken so many other beads out for other pieces I wanted to work on that I had a big mess; or 3. I’d gotten distracted by another idea and has made something completely different AND I had a big mess. Naturally, I’d scoop up all those carefully sorted beads and drop them back into the Big Jar of Undiscovered Beads.

I’ve recently discovered these perfectly created “Craft Organiser’s” that fit most of my regularly used beads and findings. Everything is right at my fingertips. I can see what I have and what I need to buy (favourite ting to do!) It has taken me quite a white to sort the beads out through. I am very methodical and “anal retentive” when it comes to my beads being in the right container and I love mindlessly sorting beads into the their own little groups. I cannot leave the wrong bead in the wrong compartment. So I have been sorting through each Jar of Undiscovered Beads and methodically section up each of the different beads and transport them into their proper new home. Admittedly, it’s not really a great way to occupy my time but I find whenever I have some annoying thing going on in my life, I turn to “sort’n beads” to pass the time It’s constructive. I see results and it keeps my mind off the problem. In fact, the other day I spent quite a good long time doing a big sort out. You see, I don’t like watching TV (the ads drive me nutty) so i have DVDs playing all the time. I record anything I want to watch on TV and play it in the am while I get ready for work. At night I play DVDs – not to watch them, just to have something in the background. Also, I am a confirmed horror movie fan – unpleasant I know). It’s the spooky supernatural aspect I like and definitely NOT the gore. Stuff like The Ring, The Shining, Skeleton Key. So I’m sorting beads and I’ve got a DVD playing and I realise the movie has played through 3 times and I don’t even realise how long I’ve actually been sitting at my “glamstation” sorting through beads of many hues, shapes, facets and colours for probably close to 4 hours! I just love the sorting. I do have one small problem though, I’ve actually finished sorting every bead that I own into its compartment and I don’t have any more to do. Boo hoo. I’m sure I could find something else to sort. After all, I’ve still got a big jar of multi coloured seed beads that I like to have handy during my blue jar – pink jar – green jar – phase. I can always go through those little babies when I’m feeling decidedly annoyed or depressed about something.

Okay, I’ve written a lot of stuff tonight and I’m itching to get back to my purple chunky junk necklace and I also want to get started on a new range of tassel earrings . . .

See you round like a record, Readers!