Worktable Wednesday - New Projects in my New Muffin Tin

August 29, 2012

One side of my worktable has the remains of my last project.  

The other side has a slew of new projects in a vintage muffin tin.  Each one begging to be next!

Honey from the Bee muffin tin of beads

It was over a year ago that the Art Bead Scene blog had a muffin tin challenge.  I didn't participate, but I started looking for a vintage muffin tin not long after.  Well, not an all out and out search, but every time I found myself at a flea market or thrift shop I'd look.  I thought I wanted a darkened by age tin, but I didn't want just any old one.  I figured it would tell me when it was the right one.

Honey from the Bee muffin tin of beads

Last week I found it!  It's heavy and fluted.  I guess it might not be a muffin tin, but maybe a fancy individual cake thing.  I think it being heavy is good for me as it's substantial and I can't try to balance it on something else which would mean lots of hands and knees time.  Yes, I'm speaking from experience.  Even knowing sometimes I was putting something in a precarious position and my inner voice telling me NO!  I'd still do it.

Anyway, I now use it to help me organize new projects.  It's awesome, because when I'm starting a new project I'll go looking for beads and such that I want to use and then in the process start pulling out other baubles that would look great together.  Before I know it my bead table is a mass of project ideas and then as I work they start to migrate into each other. I also have a tendency to stop what I'm doing and pick them up to admire them from time-to-time.  You know like, oh there is a shiny object!  Distraction.  At least now I can put that pretty cabochon back in its cup.

Honey from the Bee muffin tin of beads

So, I think this is going to work well for me.  Time will tell.  So what's on your worktable?