If there is a heaven then I reckon this is it!

Check out my lastest ...ummm... investment from Fire Mountain Gems.

I am not a religious person but I reckon if there is a Heaven then this is it!

An assortment of seed beads

Wooden beads and leather cuffs

Cabochons

Delicas

Jump rings and cubic zirconia drops

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I have also just re-organised my bead stash (to make room for the new loot)

from this

to this

I have sorted my seed beads into colours keeping size 11/0, 8/0 and 6/0 seed beads together, a separate drawer for 15/0's (not sorted by colour) and my delicas, cubes, drops, hex beads etc are still in the hangers.

I am not sure this new system is going to work for me... 

I loved having my beads sorted by size and colour... all my blue 11/0's together, red 11/0's together etc...

it made life easy when starting a new project. 

Now I have to fish through the colour drawer separating my sizes. 

I guess the sizing is easy to distinguish at a glance but my OCD prefers the other, more organised way!

Let's see how it goes!

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How do you store your seed beads?

I've been thinking of getting one of these bead tube towers ever since I saw them advertised in one of the beading magazines ages ago.

It seems like a pretty neat way to store your seed beads but I have to wonder if it will be one of those things I ''just had to have'' and then don't end up using... like my bead spinner!

At the moment I have my beads stored in their tubes hanging in a jewellery organiser kind of like this one.

I currently have 3 of these organisers in use having

*one for cubes, hex beads and drops

* one for size 15 and size 6/8 seed beads

and

*the third for size 11 seed beads

This system works pretty well as I have them hanging on my built in wardrobe doors so the beads are easy to see (I am only  using one side of the organiser) and as they are sorted in sizes I can easily see what colours I have in each size.

After seeing a few people's bead set up I bought myself a set of these drawers and was planning on sorting my beads into colour rather than by size and colour.

I have to admit that I haven't transfered my beads into this trolley yet. The thought of mixing all my bead sizes together kind of frightens me.

I like being able to find my beads by size AND colour.

If I know I am only going to use size 11's in a particular piece then I can just look at all of my 11's sitting together in each of their colour ranges.

Soooo I guess what I am trying to figure out is what is the best way to sort my seed beads?

By size only?

OR

By colour only ... mixing all seed bead sizes and types together?

How do you store your seed beads? Have you bought a bead tube tower and if so do you like it?

I'd love to hear how you store your seed beads and if that way works well for you.