[Cathybear]

Originally Posted by waimeamomi

I keep circling through the posts, and we all seem to be on the same track right now. Itʻs 6:30 p.m. in Hawaii, and I am enjoying a short break of 2 weeks with no husband or small kid, and a big kid who is working a lot, while I am on summer break from my teaching job. I should be productive, but have been busy here, and trying to figure out how to really start things up. Posting the pictures helps me to figure out how to, well post pictures, but I need a website!!! Any suggestions on an easy way to start one?

I could send you MY son for a week!! lol

[knotty panda]

Waimeamomi: JUST CALL THE DUDE! I'm sure Terry would love to hear from you and see your designs!

Thanks for all the messy pics! I work at the kitchen table and nobody better move nuttin' when I ain't looking! When Wilma struck (my first hurricane) I got stuck at my brother's house for a week with nothing to do but bead, no electricity, no phones, no gas, but I had my tools, supplies and beads. I'm like Blaire, it's all in plastic handled boxes. I practically lived on the back patio in the sunlight putting together stuff and playing. It was great!

[Nerida]

Hey Cathy - isn't your son the website guru? And young enough to be kind of compliant? Ummm, maybe he could do with a break in the city!!

Don't get me wrong, I adore my sons, but one of them is away for 5 weeks backpacking in China, so I'm just loving having his room to be messy/creative in, and not be in everyone's space! By nature, I'm a neat freak, so I'm forever packing stuff away out of sight and starting over again later on..
Knotty - the back patio sounds ideal - especially when it wasn't your house so you weren't thinking about all the gardening/housework etc you should be doing instead. I'm forever finding that sort of stuff calling me away from my work!

[Cathybear]

Lucas is rather keen on computer stuff )
Maybe if I loan him to you, you could tidy my house lolol

[Caitlin]

I am going to have to do three posts for my work space.

I just had to edit to add that the little basket on the top of the drawer thingy contained size 18 beads. That is about the tiniest they come in. The top wooden box and the bottom wooden box on the left side are full of beads and pearls. The bottom boxes are beads and findings- the top are 7 individually covered boxes aht conntain the gem storne and a few pearls. The big drawer thingy is full of pearls and the small drawer thingy also has big bead and some pearls in it.

[Caitlin]

Here's the second one:

[Caitlin]

Number three: This one is also on "some of Caitlin's pearls thread". Link

[Nerida]

Wow, Caitlin - I am completely jealous!! Can I come and play at your house??

[waimeamomi]

I canʻt wait until I have strands and strands hanging around. i think I need to go on a buying trip!!!!

[Caitlin]

I love to hang the unstrung ones on the wall in one group and the finished ones in another group. They are on thumbtacks-we'll just have to fix the wall when we move!

I bought all the unfinished strands you see from the G&LW show in the Tucson gem show. They are all commercial grade pearls so a couple hundred $$ gets you a lot of pearls at $3-$10 per! Very satisfactory to my lowly beaderness!

Just for fun--here are some of my commercial grade gemstones laid out on the silver tray before I put them in little boxes. They cost $1 to $3!!! each.

[Caitlin]

I think I should move a couple of these to my personal thread.....
This tacklebox is my workshop-to-go. All ineed is a bead board.... My first bead box was a small metal tackle box in the 60s (I still have it with tools in it now)

It must be a touch of OCD, but I Love to sort beads and pearls and put them in little boxes.....I have mentioned the time I sorted about 12oz of sequins in separate colors in separate little bags when the mixed bag didn't sell on eBay. All the tiny bags full (about 20) sold on eBay as a unit, very quickly. Sometimes I just sort beads and pearls as they tend to collect in mixed up bunches on my work table..... I usually find ones I had been looking for. Of course, I am retired.