New uses for a pants hanger, an electric toothbrush and crimp covers.

Create your own wire branch pattern and a new method to secure the ends of beading wire while you're working.

Pipe cleaners and office supplies get you organized and a bracelet can help you extend a necklace.

Common household items such as postcards and muffin tins can come in handy.

A new use for office furniture, making an inspiration collage and finding color ideas at the cosmetics counter.

A few common household items will help you keep your projects and beads organized.

Keep your jewelry tarnish-free and your work space tidy with these tips.

A digital camera can help you record your work-in-progress and simple items such as business cards, tissues with lotion, a garden rake and a workbench staple can simplify your beading.

Holiday decorations are perfect for packaging jewelry and a technique to make sure your crimps stay put.

Don't waste your small pieces of leftover wire and a seed-bead cleanup tip that only takes seconds.

Safety pins, tie racks and Tic-Tac boxes can keep your beads and projects in perfect order.

A plastic clipboard, fleece mats and small artificial trees all offer new uses for beaders.

A small piece of chalk can keep your silver findings shiny and check out this new use for a magnetic knife holder.

Having trouble stringing beads on ribbon elastic or picking up tiny heishi beads? Our readers can help.

Take a trip to the hardware and houseware stores for ideas to keep your jewelry tidy.

Find a new use for a mesh garbage can and save little spoons for a quick pickup for small beads.

A pitcher can make a pretty earring display tool and one of our readers finds another use for the tray inside a box of chocolates.

Our readers tell you how to finish off a strung bracelet and set up your jewelry design before you start stringing.

New uses for sushi boxes, desktop supplies and old blankets.

Our readers offer tips on building flexibility into a strung bracelet's length and making perfect plain loops.

Plastic zip-top bags come to the rescue in storing wire and look for empty beading-wire spools to help you organize scraps.

A common tool you use for a manicure can help you with wire projects and look no further than your mail supplies to find a great bead design board cleaner.

Learn to make consistent wire loops and how to deal with large-hole furnace glass beads.

Thrift stores and restaurants both have great, cheap supplies to help beaders get organized and inspired.

Photographic film canisters make great storage containers and checking colorfastness is as easy as filling a bowl with water.

Try a different tool to remove a flattened crimp and one simple modification will make your chainnose pliers less tough on wire.

Try a kitchen product as a base for a new beading surface and check out this technique for making jump rings more secure.

Try a different type of magazine for colorful inspiration and find a new way to make your magnetic closures more secure.

Simple steps to make a necklace longer and try a new tool for working with jump rings.

Our readers offer tips on cutting two even pieces of chain from a longer one and making sure you stay organized while beading.

Try two strands of beading wire for heavier beads and check out this reader's tip for making secure crimps.

A trip to the fabric store might just be the trick to inspire some new color combinations and this reader's tip for a storage solution lets you see all your materials while you're working.