The life of a bead seller can be insane

Selling beads involves a lot of tedious work... counting out little tiny beads, preparing packets of several styles for people (also the fun part, seeing peoples combinations) preparing a TON of photos and listings... searching and searching.. managing inventory of often thousands of beads... if not 10's of thousands is not easy work. Occasionally i get to a point where i have put off a little bit of organization here and there for so long that it is a disaster... It happened while my husband was away at truck driving school in Iowa... and my son was at grandmas in seattle... i had two months of not being accountable to anyone else.. so my beads took over the living room... and never recovered. So this week when it came time to do my annual inventory... well... it was quite a chore. I browsed pinterest for ideas for organizing this madhouse... and after i saw a million ways to organize if i have a million dollars... i settled on mason jars. (a few good runners up can be found on this pin board .)Pint sized mason jars made sense for my budget and size needs. Plus I think pint jars are the cutest. The jars will be somehow stored out of sight but easily accessible... hopefully in some cute way.. .but i havent decided yet. Anyway... my progress was cataloged on facebook with quite a bit of interest so i though i would share the photos here of my progress. my iphone makes every photo taken in my house turn yellow... maybe because of the yellow walls... so forgive me. also what looks like dirt all over the carpet is beads and bits of cording and labels... it was, as i said, quite a chore... but it feels great!