Necklace Wrangler

Comb Style Binder used as a necklace wrangler for traveling to shows.

I got roped into do a show tomorrow 11/19, from 9-3 at the Calhoun Christian School across the street from Harbor Freight and JoAnn's here in Battle Creek.  It should be a nice small show and I am looking forward to it, as I was trying to pack yesterday I realized that there had to be a better way to manage the necklaces so that when I got them out of my case they weren't a tangled mess.  It seems like I always spend most of my time setting up untangling necklaces. Then as I was looking through Pinterest, my new favorite time suck and I saw where a person was using those comb style book binding spines to wrangle their computer cords.  They wrangled the cords so nice I figured they would work on my necklaces.  I went to Office Max and spent a whole $3.99 on a box of 25 of the 55 sheet  size.  They come in many sizes and you could get what ever is going to work best for you. The great thing is you can cut them to fit the length of your necklace so there isn't a bunch of extra hanging off the end.

To put the combs on grab the necklaces by the top and start by placing only one side of them into the loops.  It take a little bit to get them started but once you have a few loops around the chains then you can simply put the loops around both sides.  I hope this makes sense?  When you are ready to remove them simply grab the necklaces by the top and pull them free from the loops.  It really is to easy and I know this is going to make my life so much easier and maybe help you out also.

What is your biggest organization tool for shows?

Comb Style Book Binding Spines

At the top leave a few of the combs with only one side of the necklace.

Wrap them as far down as you can so that the little devils don't have much room to move.

Creative Organization

Most of us have some sort of orginazition system for each thing we learn, some of them work and some don't.  Below is a photo of my wire idea bulletin board, it holds 1 or more of every new wire link or item I have created.  When I make a new link or other item I try to make an extra one for my board.  If a creative lull hits me this board comes in handy.  There is the long chain of funky links I add onto as I have new ideas and I also have parts and pieces of things that I have started and just haven't gotten the creative energy to finish.

Here is a closeup of a few of the copper links

You can see here that sometimes I have little notes that I pin up with the piece noting the length and gauge used for the link.

This is the little section dedicated to Stephanie Lee's Class