One side of my worktable has the remains of my last project.
The other side has a slew of new projects in a vintage muffin tin. Each one begging to be next!
It was over a year ago that the Art Bead Scene blog had a muffin tin challenge. I didn't participate, but I started looking for a vintage muffin tin not long after. Well, not an all out and out search, but every time I found myself at a flea market or thrift shop I'd look. I thought I wanted a darkened by age tin, but I didn't want just any old one. I figured it would tell me when it was the right one.
Last week I found it! It's heavy and fluted. I guess it might not be a muffin tin, but maybe a fancy individual cake thing. I think it being heavy is good for me as it's substantial and I can't try to balance it on something else which would mean lots of hands and knees time. Yes, I'm speaking from experience. Even knowing sometimes I was putting something in a precarious position and my inner voice telling me NO! I'd still do it.
Anyway, I now use it to help me organize new projects. It's awesome, because when I'm starting a new project I'll go looking for beads and such that I want to use and then in the process start pulling out other baubles that would look great together. Before I know it my bead table is a mass of project ideas and then as I work they start to migrate into each other. I also have a tendency to stop what I'm doing and pick them up to admire them from time-to-time. You know like, oh there is a shiny object! Distraction. At least now I can put that pretty cabochon back in its cup.
So, I think this is going to work well for me. Time will tell. So what's on your worktable?