Display Trays as Storage

by Judy Larson

When making jewelry, many of us have multiple projects going at one time, or many parts of one project. While ideas percolate, we set the project/projects aside for a while and then forget about them when something else shiny catches our eye. Keeping jewelry project parts easily accessible and/or out in the open makes it more likely that a project will be completed.

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I like to make bezels all at one time for all the stones I want to work on in the following month. Since I mostly work with uncalibrated stones, beads, and cabs, as well irregular shapes, I use compartmented display trays to keep parts made for each piece together in one place. Once the bezels are shaped, leveled,and on a backplate, I will label the bezel interiors and the stone backs with corresponding numbers so they can be stored together in the same compartment.

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Some trays contain projects that need to be remade or finished but are not a high priority.

Trays are stacked inside a cubby in my laundry room/studio. Since I work mostly with silver and the trays stack tightly together, there is only a need to throw a piece of silver cloth over the top tray to keep tarnish at bay (not shown). To keep myself on track, I work from the top tray down, moving a finished empty tray to the bottom of the stack.

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Black Liner Tray 4 Section

G20-32

Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $2.17
Gold Club Price: $1.63

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Large 1 Inch Black Plastic Sample Tray - Pack of 20

G1-61

Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $89.95
Gold Club Price: $67.46

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Black Liner Tray 12 Section

G20-28

Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $3.97
Gold Club Price: $2.98

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Category: Storage
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Judy Larson

My philosophy has always been "I will never live long enough to learn everything I want to learn, go everywhere I want to go and see everything I want to see!" So, what I make and how I create it is always changing and evolving. I was born shortly after WWII to parents who grew up during the Depression. They always had a "we can do it, we can make it" attitude which rubbed off on my two younger brothers and me. My brothers are amazing and can make and do ANYTHING! When I was a little girl, my mother gave me an old carved cigar box, which I cherish, filled with pop beads, wooden beads and yarn for stringing. That was the beginning of my jewelry making journey.

On a visit to the Grand Canyon when I was a young woman, I was fortunate enough to help a Native American silversmith sand cast my first silver bracelet and bezel set a large turquoise nugget on top. I was in love, hook, line and sinker! While working full time and having a family here in northern Minnesota, my artistic endeavors slowed down but never stopped. I am an artist, scrapbooker, seamstress, woodworker and jewelry artisan. Now that I am retired, I am able to indulge in all my hobbies. However, there just never seems to be enough time in the day to do it all, but I try!

I have been teaching community education beginner and intermediate jewelry making classes since my retirement. Many of my students have been bitten so hard by the jewelry making bug that they say I have turned them into monsters-they just can't get enough. Making jewelry, seeing something take shape from small bits and pieces, is so rewarding that I hope it brings out the "monster" in you, too!

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