Oh my gosh I am in awe of your organizing power.
I am a jeweler not necessarily a beader, but here goes anyway.
Bad picture I know, but here goes. On the sill on the left is all my tools, my pickle pot and nuetralizing wash, my torches, my flux and brushes, and my camera. Oh, also a hairdryer.
Brass, copper and nickel sheet go on the floor between the window and my desk.
On my desk is my firing area/charcoal block, rotary tool, and more often then not my mini torch. There is also a bench pin and vice. I have part of the desk taped with emery paper, and a really bright light. I also have containers to hold work in progress, finished work that needs to go away (client was looking at it or whatever) and repairs that have come in.
That smaller unit on my desk is small pieces of silver, wire, and solder in various metals, weights and forms. Anything big pieces of precious metal are in a safe not on site.
In the main middle desk drawer there is all my small hand tools, rting sizing tools, and "businessy stuff" (reciept book, licences, etc). It also has all my buffs, drill bits, madrels etc. PMC is also kept here.
Going down the side of my desk are 3 drawers. Top has my pearls/water pearls in 2, 17 compartment boxes. It also has a scraptote type thing (full of 7 day pill containders) full of Swarovsky crystals divided by size, shape and colour. Any stones I am currently working with, cutting, setting etc are also in that drawer in ziplocks inside silk pouches (they are really noticeable so I do not misplace them.)
Middle drawer has my chemicals, face mask, ear plugs and goggles, extra fuel canisters, extra emery paper and various odds and ends.
Bottom drawer has anything I do not know where to put. Olive oil for working with PMC (to big for the pmc drawer) bead board, extra shellac and wood, stuff like that.
Next to my desk on the right is a small wood unit with 6 drawers (actually 2 small drawer units on top of each other that I got for next to nothing at ikea. They are meant for sorting paper).
Top drawer has all my focal beads. Things that I build pieces around. They are in the little drawers that come in the garage sorting things, but laid out so I can see into each of them. Within each of them, the subcatagories are divided by ziploc.
2nd drawer has all my findings. They are divided like the drawer above.
3rd drawer is divided like the first two, but it contains all my "other" beads. Magnetic hematite, check glass, basically, anything of reasonable quality that I have a fair amount of that is not Swarovsky or pearl and has a hole through it.
4th drawer is my seed beads in tic tac like containers, then another 17 compartment container of random cheap glass beads sorted by colour.
5th drawer has leather, suede, nymo, string, no precious metal chain, elastic, needles, beeswax, and basically anything I could need for stringing.
bottom drawer has all my packaging stuff.
I also always keep an "odds and ends box" where I toss stuff I know I will never need again. Every so often I find another artist who has something they are not using they want to swap for it. That is how I goy tumbler and vice I also once traded my old easel and oil paints for a bunch of raw emeralds someone else did not want. It is actually a great system to declutter without feeling bad about it!
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