We All Have Hang-Ups.....

As you know, my hang-up is doing anything for more that 20 minutes at a time bores me to tears. Soooo......When I read Nikki of Witch and Wizard Miniatures' blog this morning I was distracted. That is all I can say. She had these photos of her neat and tidy workroom. I was jealous. I wanted one of those too.

I have had a couple of coat rack kind of thingies to put on the wall for ages. I wanted them to replace the men's pant hangers that I had a bunch of bead hanks hanging on. They just weren't pretty at all. I had the bead hanks hooked onto big paper clips and in turn, those were hooked over the ugly chrome and black rubber pant hangers. I spent the morning making things more pleasant to look at when I am in there. I am sure that I would be in there a lot more if it was walk around-able. Right now it's jump over-able. Nikki made me feel guilty for not finishing the job the last time I threatened to do it.

I put all of the #11 seed bead hanks on the bottom rack and the #14 hanks on the top one. I even had a couple of hooks left over for my level and my metal yardstick.

You can't see them too well, but I found some of the fancy scrolled brass ornament hangers that I had left over from Christmas and hung the beads on those. The three little bags on the top hangers are bead knitted amulet bags that I knitted a few years ago just to see if I could do it. I could. So much for that....

The large bag on the bottom is one with which I won a 75.00 gift certificate from one of the local bead shops here in town. It is suede and sewn to one of the antique purse frames that I collect. See there is a use for them. Granted most of them just hang on the wall sans purse, but sometimes I get around to adding one to a frame. That frame is unusual in that it has 4 hinges on the frame that open into a diamond shape instead of the usual flip open kind.

Anyway, I have a three foot section of wall that looks pretty nice now. We won't discuss the box of #14 beads at the left. I can't help it if everyone doesn't package their beads the same way. I really, really need all of the pretty colors in the tubes as well as the ones hanging on the rack. Honest, I do!

The little thingy that I am holding the top of the box up with whilst I take the photo is one of the self same bead tubes. See.....they are even recyclable! Yup, I covered it with some of the beads in the box. Here's a close up.





I know. Technically these aren't minis. I do use the # 14s to make mini beaded bags. I could probably make a thousand beaded bags with what I have and still have enough left over to do 467 more. I just want to make sure that I don't run out in the middle of the 466th one.

OK, something mini. I ran onto this book while I was digging around. It is one that I have had since the late 80s. If you are into Victorian miniatures, this is a good one for figuring out color schemes. I haven't looked, but you might be able to find it on Alibris or one of the other used book sites.

It is a reprint of a book put out in France in 1877. It is full color prints of walls and ceilings. The colors are wonderful. There are all kinds of designs for paneling. I think that a few of them could even be copied and used in miniature. I won't tell that you did it, if you do. The author is Cesar Daly if you want to search for it.

Now I have to go finish the last part of Carolyn's chair. So much for room cleaning! I'm over the urge.

See you tomorrow.