I've never been satisfied with the storage and access to my beads; until now!
I took a walk round one of Basingstoke's "tat" shops the other day (Circle7 it's called) and I spotted a pill box that looked like it was the answer to my prayers, and at under ?2.00 there wasn't a lot to loose if it was useless.
Well, it's perfect! The beads are housed securely, they're easily accessible, and as a bonus, easily transportable.
All I had to do was glue some label in and Bob's your father's brother. ;D
The tray is locked securely in, but can be pulled out completely for loading or picking beads.
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t149/scot2flyfish/Forum%20pics/beadbox2.jpg)
Or you can slide each individual lid out as far as you want for access to the beads.
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t149/scot2flyfish/Forum%20pics/beadbox.jpg)
And if you're blind drunk at the vice you can use the Braille as your guide to picking colour and size... sweet! :lol:
Quote from: River Chatter on February 15, 2010, 11:46:04 AM
And if you're blind drunk at the vice you can use the Braille as your guide to picking colour and size... sweet! :lol:
So drunk that you can read German Braille......
The short cut markers in Braille mean the same in any language as do the short cuts in sign language. You only have to know the language if the words are spelt out in longhand :)
Short cuts in Sign Language? :? BTW, the commonly held belief that Sign Language is universal isn't true, and while British Sign Language (recently recognised as a bona fide community language in the Scotland) shares some vocab and grammatical structure with sign languages from other countries (especially those full of ex-pats) it isn't the same. American Sign Language has more in common with French Sign Language than British, while British is similar in many ways to Australian. Someone said in a thread recently (Breac?) that language is dynamic and sign languages are no different.
When I was speaking to my mates they either read my lips or I had to spell everything out in long hand, which for me took ages :) Watching them talk they used signs for words e.g. where, when, father, mother etc. and was lead to believe these were more or less universal. I read a story in our local paper about a school trip where one of the pupils was deaf, as was one of the pupils they were meeting there and that they were able to communicate enough for them to translate for the others when the translators weren't about.