Organize craft room : Organize beads using plastic jars

I am very excited to share this lovely project with you. I have to admit that I am in love with making accessories. I have tons of beads to work with. For a long time  I had no where to store them. They were stored in bags they came with and they were looking like pieces of junks. Then I got this idea of this plastic jars.

 I have tons of these plastic jars of peanuts that my husband likes to snack. I was thinking about using them to store dry food but I wasn't sure about the plastic material. It doesn't have any signs for the plastic quality. So I decided to store beads inside them.


I didn't like the way it looks. It is kind of blurred and unclear plastic, also the lid was miserable. What I did is to make some coroche covers for them

They looked pretty  with these covers. I have chosen bright light colors threads and used double stitch. I started with making a circle for 9 cm diameter - which matches the bottom of the jar diameter- and continued normally with the double stitches. They look pretty when I covered them

A useful tip is that I did this cover with a small window at the bottom of the cover to be able to see what's inside and I made it closer to the bottom in order to see what's inside no matter how much the amount is. To make the window, let's say it is 4 stitches wide. just don't complete the last four stitches in your line and keep making lines leaving the last four stitches. when you find the suitable height just close the line with four chains and complete your lines normally.

And I had fun

I am waiting for your responses and comments. If you have any organizing project you like to share I will be glad to share it in my blog. See you next post