A Look Inside Our Space: Bead Storage

Bead storage is something that took a lot of time to figure out, and we're still working on perfecting it. Our current bead storage was bought in the hardware section at Canadian Tire. It fits an entire bag of a color, and has enough bins for more than all the colors we have. 

We don't currently have any pearl, glow-in-the-dark, striped or glitter beads. If we did, there wouldn't be enough room. But it holds all your regular colors. 

We labeled the colors with removable stickers found at the local dollar store. The kind of thing yo would use to price things at a yard sale. 

The rest of our bags, we keep in two spots. We keep one of each color (more of black and white though) hanging on a peg board that I got years ago at Michael's as scrapbooking storage. I have one more board, but can't find the pegs in store anymore. 

The extras we keep in a mini cube storage shelf that we keep on our desk. We got the shelf and the mini baskets at Target. We also keep other random beading odds and ends in there as well. Including the animal/fish peg boards that we rarely use. 

The rest of our storage, at the moment, is just a mess on an old bookshelf. 

The worst part, is that all of this resides in our little dining room in our tiny apartment. We are lacking in space, but we make it work. 

Some information about our busy season & ordering

We are quickly approaching our busy season, and orders are already picking up. With that being said, I wanted to go over a few things to make sure our busy Christmas season goes smoothly for all. 

Christmas will be here before we know it. 

- This year, we hope to do something we've never done before - take part in a craft fair. As soon as we find out if our application is accepted, we will pass along details on that. We're pretty excited. With the (potential) craft fair coming up in November, as well as having two children, and a full-time job each (one being mostly an evening job that will deal with a lot of local Christmas parties), we expect to be much busier than last year. 

- We are currently still accepting "rush orders" for any birthdays etc, on a case-by-case basis, but won't be offering that option as it gets busier. Rush orders being orders we bump ahead of people who've already ordered to make a specific deadline for you. 

- Christmas orders will be done in the order that they're placed. 

- We can get many small orders done sometimes in the span of one evening, larger projects can take a couple of days. 

- With custom orders, we like to send you a final picture of your project before it's melted and set in stone. Until we get a response, those orders sit on our boards which limit what we can make that particular day until you respond. The faster we get the okay to finish them, the faster we can move on to other orders. (*Note: Everyone's been great with that so far!)

- For very large orders that use a lot of one color, we may need up to 4-6 weeks to process as not all colors are available locally.

- For large or rare orders we may require a deposit before creating. We accept cash or email money transfers. 

- We LOVE to see pictures of our projects in use and hear how you like them. We even have a brand new reviews section on our Facebook page, just waiting for some feedback. 

- With Christmas approaching we want to have one last giveaway soon. It's for a specific item that's never been seen before, and I can't wait to show it off. 

- For any other questions, you can comment here, email evbeadsprites at gmail.com, or find us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter all as evbeadsprites.