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Improvised Bead Board

I've been doing a bit of bead netting since I got the gorgeous new Diane Fitzgerald book. Some of the pieces she makes are way, way beyond my current skill level, but it's fun, and I'm noodling around with it.

Some of the pieces she makes require being pinned onto a flat surface or around a template. Diane recommends using foam core board, which I did not have in the house. So, I looked around to improvise.

I found a cork bulletin board, about 12 by 18 inches. Not big, but a good size to sit on my lap while I work. I am using push pins to hold the netting in place, and it seems perfectly workable. A heck of a lot easier than cutting foam core at any rate.

I used my old reliable ruler tape (a roll of tape with ruler measurements on it) to go around the edges of the bulletin board, so I can make sure that my work is a consistent length all the way around. I also stuck a short length of stick on magnet tape to one bit to keep my needles from wandering off.

I'm delighted with my makeshift board, and am passing this along in the hope it might help some other tightwad beader like myself.

Kathy N-V

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Kathy N-V
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LOL.. This is what I love about NGs.. The information swap..

You crack me up too..

Mavis

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AmazeR

That's a great idea...I need to do that for macrame work. I actually was going to make my own corkboard, I have all the supplies on hand, but lost the tube of cork adhesive in the move last year. Because I was preggers, I never bothered replacing it because I couldn't use it. Need to do that...besides, I'm always up for an excuse to go to Home Depot.

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Barbara Forbes-Lyons" :

]I'm always up for an excuse to go to Home Depot.

seconded!!!! for some very odd reason, i have this total love of hardware stores and office supply stores. just the smell of a hardware store is intoxicating. i must associate them with my dad, somehow.

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vj

I love making my own tools. I'm printing this out for future reference. Thanks for posting this, Kathy.

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Marisa Cappetta

I don't associate them with my dad (who has never been handy at all) but I also love hardware stores and office supply stores. Maybe my love of beading and other crafts comes from the same place - all those stores are about supplies for making things.

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Stef

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@panix.com (Stef) :

]all those stores ]are about supplies for making things.

**grin** good point!

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vj

I actually like the small hardware stores even better. There's always interesting things lurking on the shelves. Things you'd never expected to find.

Don't even go in an office supply store with me! I have a fetish that started when I was a little kid for paper, pencils and pens.

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Margie

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Margie :

]I actually like the small hardware stores even better. There's always ]interesting things lurking on the shelves. Things you'd never ]expected to find.

and they always smell great, don't they?

]Don't even go in an office supply store with me! I have a fetish that ]started when I was a little kid for paper, pencils and pens.

**grin** you, me, and Jamie! she's 21 and still likes getting felt-tip pens and paper for Christmas!

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vj

We have a wonderful hardware store here. It's been around for a very long time and has the odds and ends that are particularly suited for our Northern and more remote style of living. All the people there are very knowledgeable, and patient! One of the things I like about it is that it is NOT a "home improvement" store. It's about hardware, not about pretty. I don't have to waste time going through a lot of home decor when what I want is hardware.

Tina

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Christina Peterson

Oooh, oooh, me too! I got smelly glitter pens for Christmas this year, and black writing paper and envelopes to go with them! Yay!

Charlie.

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Charlie

Then there's the disease DH and I share (but mine's not quite as obvious as his) We're "penophiles"!!! The pocket's on his jacket(s) are STUFFED with pens. No doctor's office is safe. And heaven forbid if we go to an office supply store or down the office supplies aisle in any store. I'll point them out to him (I get the cast off's and a good set once in a while "just for me") But I was the same way in school. One pocket full of candy (sugar junkie) and the other full of pens. Different colors for EVERYTHING!!!!!!

Later,

Helen C

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Helen C

Me too! I do *not* buy stationery any more if I can help it - thanks to my clutter-busting new me! I have enough pens to last *years*!

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Helen Page

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Charlie" :

]Oooh, oooh, me too! I got smelly glitter pens for Christmas this year, and ]black writing paper and envelopes to go with them! Yay!

**grin** and the best part is, by next Christmas, she'll need more, so i still know what to put in her stocking!

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vj

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]It's about hardware, not about pretty.

yes - those are best. especially if they smell of sawdust, fertilizer, and/or lubricating oil.

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vj

*chuckle*

I am a pen pollinator. That is, like bees in flowers, I take them from one place and leave them somewhere else. My OH ("outlaw husband") is constantly complaining about it because I like the kind of pen he uses and so I pollinate them all over the house. He periodically buys a box and hides them.

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Stef

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