Shown here displayed in guest bath on a black salad plate and “served” with home made soap. 1. Wash and dry the shirt. I used a cotton thermal under shirt. 2. Lay flat and cut several 6″ or 8″ squares. You can measure with a ruler and mark it or cut a square piece of card stock and use as a template. No need to be completely perfect – t-shirt material curls a bit on the edges when cut and it won’t fray either! 3. Store them in a small basket or decorative bowl by your bathroom sink and use them to wash your makeup off at the end of the day. They wring out easily, dry easily and since you have so many, you use a clean one every day. Which many experts agree that this is a good thing for the health of your face because of bacteria build up in regular wash cloths.

4. If you want to get fancy – sew 2 pieces together on 3 sides and turn inside out. Here I used 2 of the pieces that had the hem of the shirt on one side.

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I found these compartment food trays inside a picnic basket purchased at a thrift store.  When I’m working on bead projects, I may have several going on at the same time. Turning these trays into bead trays help keep the projects organized. (I’ve seen these hard plastic compartment trays available different sizes.) What I like about them is that they are sturdier than the traditional light weight plastic grey flocked bead boards you find at craft stores. So I can carry it around and hold it in my lap where ever I’m sitting.

Using felt or some type of textured fabric on the tray helps hold beads when you are working with them. Cut your felt (or fabric) and keep positioning and trimming until it fits. Don’t worry how it will fit around curves – it will stretch a little to fit.

I use 3M Super 77 Multipurpose Adhesive. (Visit their website for tips and projects 3Msuper77.com )

Here is how I spray: I save scrap paper and lay it in a trash can. I place my felt upside down on the paper and spray. When I have to spray another piece, I lay a new piece of scrap paper on top of the sticky one. That way each new item to be sprayed will not get sticky from the piece before. (I use this technique for small spray paint projects also.)

Then gently pick up your felt and carefully place it in your compartment. Next I recycled a promotional magnet I didn’t want. I glued it upside down in one of the compartments to hold beading needles secure when not in use. You can also use those adhesive magnets. The kind where one side has paper to peel off and you adhere your business card.

If you like, you can use a marker and mark off 1″ increments on one edge of your tray for help in measuring lengths of bead projects.

Happy Beading!

Jules

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But I love finding old silverware boxes – the wood kind with hinged lids and sometimes an extra drawer. I get them at junk shops or garage sales. I use them for lots of things.

So I had an empty one with a drawer. I opened the lid (left it attached – never know if I’ll need if for something else) and set my monitor in it! It raised it up 2.75″ – just exactly what I needed.

If I keep my desk clean enough, I can open the drawer which now holds note paper, pens, and other stuff that ends up being used every day at my computer.

Things that get used more often can sit inside the top – you know – like toy xylophones.

Happy Day……………….Jules

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Clever video from Instructables.com
Instructables is a site where people share what they know and submit “instructions” on how-to’s. Unbeliveably creative, abundant with ideas and contests – be prepared to be wowed.

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Take a look at shoe boxes – some of them don’t use glue to put the box together.

• Cool for them – probably saves money.
• Cool for the environment – less toxic materials in manufacturing.
• Cool for us – we get to turn them inside out and re-use them!

Look inside and see if the flaps are glued down or tucked and folded etc.
So far, the ones I have encountered that don’t have the glued construction are the ones that come in one total piece – the lid is hinged not a separate lid.

Step 1: Unfold your box.
Step 2: Fold it back together inside out.
Step 3: Optional – add decorative labels and fill them up with anything you have that needs organizing.

These labels turned out pretty cool looking in the photo. They look three dimensional – but they are only a paper label. I found an interesting image on-line, put the photo in my graphic program and put the text in white in the center. Printed it out and trimmed around the edges and glued it to the front of the box.

Save the life of a box – you’ll feel good!

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