I also have a ridiculous amount of beading magazines and books. I get Bead & Button, Beadwork, BeadStyle, Bead Unique and Bead every issue and occasionally pick up other mags if something catches my eye. I also have a lot of books, I can't take a photo as they are packed away while we decorate. I rarely make anything from a mag these days but do frequently spend an evening going back over them for inspiration, so I do feel that I use them regularly and so they are worth buying. I did recently destash quite a few BeadStyle magazines to my work friend Sam, who is thinking of starting to make jewellery (yay, another convert!) and I plan to give some to another colleague whose mum wants to take up the hobby.
I look through my books less often so I feel that I should really try to make more use of them. I think that this weekend I will try to find some time to look through the books and make a list of 5 projects to do some stashbusting with in the next 3 months. I will list them here and track my progress. Hopefully this approach will mean that I use up a lot of beads and make proper use of my beading library.
Do you have any beading books that you don't feel you make proper use of?
Sarahx
Hi Sarah, great post! I know that I have quite a few magazines and books that I need to take another look at and maybe that will help me also in using up some of my Bead Stash! Thanks for the great idea. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend!
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Bobbi
Thanks Bobbi, isn't it scary just how mush stuff we accumalate through our hobbies? I think it's a shame that I have these beautiful resources and let them languish in a box somewhere. I'm glad that we will be working towards using them to full potential!
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