Beads

Editorial production time is, by its nature, an up-and-down business at my workplace. Since we don't release books by month, but by season, and since our list is not large, there are periods of intense crazy, punctuated by periods of **yawn**. The last month or so has been more the downish end of things. And so, as a project, I took on the beads.

We do a number of craft books involving beads, and when a new bead book is considered, we have to make lots and lots of different projects for the editor to choose from; try out the techniques to see if they can be described/simplified for use with kids; and supply looks-like versions for photos for the cover and interior directions. We have tons of beads left over from the process, and tons of sample beads ordered to check out their color in combination with other beads... My first thought was to organize what we had by color, but I was told that first criteria were source (from one of our overseas manufacturers? bought at Michaels'?}, then composition (glass or plastic); then kind of bead (faceted? seed bead? "novelty" bead), then size, and then color.
( Continued behind the cut for those who like neepery... )