ok this weekend I wrote every colour glass , type and next year I will make each bead in each colour and file that with the descriptions as well.
The fact I still have maybe 2 or 3 more orders of glass coming does not matter ;D I will file them as well.
What I would like to know is I have mixed all the 104 coe types together but put them in colour order ( all the green together , blues etc ) . But how do you store yours ???????
By type , by name Effetre etc, by colour or just thrown in like a lucky dip . As I am waiting for a larger shed than the last one . I am wanting this to be right so any ideas that I may not have thought of would help. Already thought of a glitter ball in there ( husband and his family really do think I have lost the plot ) :-\
Well I've sprted mine my manufacturer, but I recently saw Colette's and her's was sorted by colour which looks really nice!
PS - nothing wrong with a glitterball
Mine is like yours, by colour, but I'm considering changing that as I get better storage, so probably by manufacturer, then in the same-ish colour order. I feel it's kind of impossible to keep up at the moment :-\
I have all my compatible glass by colour as I find it much easier that way for working with and also means i use colours that i would not necessarily look at otherwise. I have my DH glass separate.
When planning your storage (if you are as ocd as me about it) its worth leavinga few gaps in places for when manufacturers bring out new colours...saves a lot of faffing moving things about. ;D
I have mine sorted by colour too, as it's all 104.
I would love to take the time to do samples and include notes on each colour and label every rod, but it hasn't happened yet - I'm always too impatient to light the torch!!!
Quote from: Chameleon on December 13, 2010, 11:27:22 AM
When planning your storage (if you are as ocd as me about it) its worth leavinga few gaps in places for when manufacturers bring out new colours...saves a lot of faffing moving things about. ;D
Very good point!
i sort mine by coe, then make, then colour, I have all the transparent glass on one side from clear to dark and the same with colours on the other side. Separate shelf for silver and other special glasses, tubs for twisties etc. Hmmm....bit OCD sounding me thinks. ???
Mine's by make & colour too ::)
Mine are in kilner jars in colours, red, blue, green, purple etc. They are all 104 coe but a mixture of manufacturers, although each rod is labelled individually.
I keep my DH glass separate from the other stuff, and this is in labelled jars, dependent upon which type it is.
I have my 104 glass like so...big long box for effetre transparents,all individual colours in bundles (I use the 'really useful boxes' from staples, the big ones are the ones they sell for wrapping paper, and they often have them on 3 for 2) box for effetre opaques, small box for DH and other reduction glass, mid size box for CIM, mid size box for reichenbach. (then have further boxes for other COEs and a small bathroom cabinet for bullseye)
the boxes live on shelves.
I also have a small rack next to my desk where clear, white and several other colours I use alot live, so they're handy (my ASK lives here too cause its longer and I didn't have somewhere to put it!)
(this is not to mention all the jars I have on my desk of half used rods, stringers and one for the super specials that I only have one rod of and cant get any more)
however...I'm getting a new studio, so will be custom building storage (possibly involving plastic pipe) and need to decide what's working best for me! needless to say there's often frantic rummaging through boxes, punctuated by going back to torch to warm up a bead! this bit, not working so well!
um...organised? I think not.
I find that grouping by make helps me know where to look for a particular colour, because that's what I remember about them, though I do think that if I make a pipe system they will be organised by colour too.
I label all my rods when i buy them, then i store them in colour (DH is seperate) all is ceo 104 so not much confusion yet allthough i still write make, product number, colour and indevidual price per rod on the sticker ;D
L x
Mine's all 104 too, but I have the magic/mystic colours on one row, along with stringers and other 'too expensive to play withy' colours and DH, then after that it's a confused rainbow of colours in each piece of tubing. Perhaps when it warms up and Martin's delivery arrives I'll resort.
Oh, and bits, pieces and anything else too short to loose in tubing is in those £1 rotating brush stands they had in The Works in the summer.
Quote from: Just Desire on December 13, 2010, 01:00:14 PM
I label all my rods when i buy them, then i store them in colour (DH is seperate) all is ceo 104 so not much confusion yet allthough i still write make, product number, colour and indevidual price per rod on the sticker ;D
L x
Trust me, she does!! And she hand writes them all!
All my 104 is in rainbow order and I've started to label all my rods with name and number (and price if it's pricey!) - I get confuddled if I don't :). Silver glass and special glass (eg intense black, opal yellow) is in jars on the worktop. I label by hand too and it is starting to take too long, as I melt more glass now...do you have any tips for printing labels, Trudi?
Someone needs a printer!!
I have got some labels from...
http://www.labels-direct.co.uk/84-up-35-mm-slideslabel-sheets
And the come of the glass fairly easily when it comes to the ends.
I store mine en manufacturer and then I have started sorting in part number order. I figured it would make it easier when it came to ordering more stock.
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Do you guys have access? I would be happy to send my access database that use, I'll take out all the rubbish and give you instructions on how to use? (I think I would have gone mad if I labelled everything by hand!!)
I just list the names in excel (copy them down the columns for the amount I need). I print in a small font.
Print, cut up and tape on!
I have a little table where I put in the name of the colour and then the number of rods and then the supplier and then the date I got them and then go to print preview and ta-da I just need to press print!
Then the label comes out with the name of the colour, part number, supplier,delivery date, name of manufacture and if it's opaque/transparent/translucent..
I would but I haven't got there yet coz it could be a little scary get it to put the list into another table so I could see how often I ordered new colours. I see that as talking it one step too far
Quote from: Krysia on December 13, 2010, 02:30:35 PM
I have a little table where I put in the name of the colour and then the number of rods and then the supplier and then the date I got them and then go to print preview and ta-da I just need to press print!
Then the label comes out with the name of the colour, part number, supplier,delivery date, name of manufacture and if it's opaque/transparent/translucent..
I would but I haven't got there yet coz it could be a little scary get it to put the list into another table so I could see how often I ordered new colours. I see that as talking it one step too far
... perhaps :)
Ha ha ha ;D
Mine are in colour order (all 104) and I always keep one labelled rod in the tube. Thus when I take out a rod and use it I then put it straight back in its "home" as soon as its cool. My DH and other interesting glass is kept in a row all on its own and thus out of colour sync. But I can't be arsed to label every rod and I must be really un-intelligent if I can't then figure out which tube it needs to go back in to based on its colour compared to my choices of where it could go! Although I will admit to some of my pretty blues possiby being a tad mixed up - but it doesn't stop my world from turning if I use zachary instead of chalcedony....
But def colour order as its so pretty - but it can be really annoying when you buy in a new colour and you have to rearrange every subsequent tube to shift it all down by one!
I sort by colour and tone, bottom of the rack (easiest to reach) is clear, peace, tuxedo and marshmallow.
Next up is light and dark grey, ivory and dark ivory.
Then I go into the none base glass black greys and browns (khaki, hades, intense black, hippo, cayon etc....)
The rest of the rack is taken up in colour order and sorted so the opaque is next to it's nearest counterpart in transparent starting with orange and yellow (smallest collection of colour) into green into teals/turquoise and blues, purples, pinks and reds. I ocassionally sit and just pull stringers and these are stored with the main rods.
A little on the anal side because of the way the racks are similar shades are on top of each other so if I'm using Olive I can go up to Lapis, Eggplant and Lipstick and the relevant transparent are just a shift to the left... I may be getting into the slightly OCD territory here, yes I know where every colour is an no I am not looking at my storage right now.
I have another rack on the other wall which is reserved for my DH and special glasses. (the most difficult to reach.)
Underneath every block on the wine rack is a label telling me what is in each section and labelled by name and number.
Twisties have a rather un-organised drawer, Millifori and murrini also have a drawer but I have some plastic pill organisers in that one to keep them all sorted
I have a biscuit tin lid that is getting quite full with stringer and twistie odds and ends.
The contingency plan for new glass is a few spare slots (caused by my need to have similar tones in a line too) and if all else fails a few jam jars
do you guys have any time to make beads with all that well organised glass ;)
mine are in tubes ....in a mixture of colours but i keep makers sepperate ...and specials very sepperate ....... but i have those i use a lot close to hand for grabbing
on my bench i have shorts and stingers etc in jars close to hand .....and frit and leaf and tools and presses and ? and ?.....i do sepperate shorts into colours ...and have a jar of too short to use but too long to chuck ...god knows what i will do with them (frit?) but i am a hoarder and hate waste
i make sure i dont use the one with the label and have a need to replace/wish list for when i am running low of something
i do tidy up at the begining of each session and put rods back into their slots and pick out ones i am going to work on if i have a plan of action for that session
but other than that organised choas really ::)
My goodness some people really do have an order ummmmm I wonder how far I will go. No surprise there to find out today there is a delay in delivery of shed !!!!!! ordered it dec 4th. And the said now sometime in the new year because it is xmas . We I never :-\ :-\
I have a gorgeous wooden pigeon hole cabinet thing I got from the college skip!! I have got CIM, Reich and Effetre separated and trans and opaques separated as well. My DH and specials sit in yellow china jugs in the window with my presses! I am rapidly running out of room!!!
Each of my cubby holes fits 4 lengths of pipe in, in a square (2x2) shape perfectly and there are 36 cubby holes :o think I may have to get melting pretty much from now until next Christmas to make a bit of a dent in it all!
That sounds wonderful and also begs for a picture
I sort mine ny colour and type, as in, all the opaques starting from white and through to black, and all the transparents the same way. But I am VERY tidy and organised......some would call it OCD!!
Janey x
Quote from: sarah t on December 13, 2010, 04:53:19 PM
....i do sepperate shorts into colours ...and have a jar of too short to use but too long to chuck ...god knows what i will do with them (frit?) but i am a hoarder and hate waste
Why don't you just add the short to the next rod of the same colour. If you don't have the same colour, just add it to a clear or any other rod so it can be used up.
My drawers as follows:
Closest to me is a drawer with frequently used glass - clear, white, ivories, blacks, opal yellow etc.
Silver glass reducers
Silver glass and other special glass strikers
Effetre neutrals
Effetre cools
Effetre warms
Effetre specials, odds, filigranos and cool colours
Effetre commercial stringers
Vetrofond standards
Vetrofond odds
CIM neutrals
CIM cools
CIM warms
Reichenbach - all
All my bullseye rods are in huge clear glass vases sorted into neutral, warm and cool, as is my ASK collection and my longer Effetre rods from my original starter pack!
Kazx
You all make a total mockery of my SINGLE (!!!!) shelf in a single cupboard where the black, white and clear sit to the left, then effetre in the middle and CiM to the right in no particular colour order whatsoever. My DH and other 'special' (to me) glasses like cranberry and pandora and my single rod of EDP and copper green are wedged in the drawer above (along with bags of frits, murrini, presses, goldstone, spare tools, silver leaf/wire, etc). I don't label the rods but I do make sure that the one labelled rod in each pack is the last one I use.
Hmmm, thinking of it, maybe that's why I come up with some of the more 'interesting' colour combinations ::)
Another labeller here - label has colour and code, manufacturer, rough price of rod (so I don't just reach for cranberry pink as a base!! :o )
All kept in colour order (DH and specials separate). I'm thinking of separating into trans and opaques ...
Quote from: Magpie on December 13, 2010, 10:21:27 PM
You all make a total mockery of my SINGLE (!!!!) shelf in a single cupboard where the black, white and clear sit to the left, then effetre in the middle and CiM to the right in no particular colour order whatsoever. My DH and other 'special' (to me) glasses like cranberry and pandora and my single rod of EDP and copper green are wedged in the drawer above (along with bags of frits, murrini, presses, goldstone, spare tools, silver leaf/wire, etc). I don't label the rods but I do make sure that the one labelled rod in each pack is the last one I use.
Hmmm, thinking of it, maybe that's why I come up with some of the more 'interesting' colour combinations ::)
Phheewwwwww I kept quiet for this one lol I have a set of 3 plastic draws from wilko that all my glass gets thrown in!!
roughly sorted.....blues and greens top draw, reds ornge yellows middle, pinks purples bottom!! then i have a array of jam jars on the counter top with cim shoved in one (i dont have much! ::)) reichenbach in another and odds n sods in the rest!! Organisation is not my strong point lol
Oh and i do the same too with the last rod in the pack labelled thing to hehehe ;D
Mine needs more organising, but I'm a bit busy! I have a cardboard box on its side with 3 mdf shelves in it - that's got my Effetre, Vetrofond and CiM bundles in. In jars I've got my Reichenbach, P&T and DH and a small amount of 96. Then there's a lot more jars with things like mixed colour selection packs in them - one for the pinks, two for CiM, one for Reichenbach, and jars next to my torch with colours I've been using/planning to use. Little spice and sauce jars for stringers, with special ones in one place. I do have pipes, which are mostly sawn up and the ends filed, I just haven't got round to sticking them together and putting things in them! (My cardboard box needed replacing, because it has quite a slant now).
I'm behind in my labelling too (but now I have a laser printer and sticky labels, so can make very pretty labels for my own glass when I have the time!). So my older stuff has every rod labelled, while newer only has one or two per bundle. I include the date I got things on the label, just in case I need to be able to keep batches separate.
I've found that the smaller storage boxes from Maplin are great for keeping murrini in. They have small compartments with fixed walls, so unlike the removable wall ones, little things can't creep under the dividers. Good for beads too! They stack without sliding off each other.
Quote from: Kalorlo on December 14, 2010, 11:14:54 AM
I include the date I got things on the label, just in case I need to be able to keep batches separate.
*nodding* coz you just never know!!