Bead organization and other elements added to fulfill my vision.

I took a piece of a commercial quilt and stitched elastic in two rows to slide my bead tubes into. I can keep them rolled up neatly in color order on a shelf.

This is the whole thing rolled out on the table making it easy to choose just the right bead for the job

In this picture you can see the black dots I made using a sharpie to mark the distance between "tubes" to stitch the elastic into place.

Like all of my art supplies, I have had MANY of these beads for YEARS.

Here are some of the ways I have used beads and other things in my work

 Corrugated card board, cork and a handmade ceramic bead (by me)

                       Glass beads, hand made cloth beads, scrim and strings

 Framing with beads as well as creating a ground

                    Lots of beading as well as burlap, threads and a couched shell

From the top: Sticks, button (the wrong side of Mother-of-Pearls), safety pins as marks,  drawer pull, two small wrenches, more buttons, copper pipe clamps, a washer, a crushed bottle cap and two keys and a keyhole.

From the top: rock stitched on, rafia and sari yarn couched, scrim "sacks" filled with dryer link and dog hair mats stitched on to represent rocks.