 to make those spools and spend some time this week organizing and sorting. But that's okay because for the moment I'll be back. I have been working on floss. I've had at least one shopping trip recently. Not that there's been a lot of those to the craft store since the whole COVID-19 thing started. But I've had at least one. I've ordered some and I've had a couple of really generous happy emails from friends which now means I have a lot of floss that needs to be sorted and organized and put on bobbins and because it's kind of becoming a tangled mess. I thought I could deal with the skeins just being sorted sort of by color groups into little bags and put in a drawer. But that's kind of driving me crazy. A hand crake winder thing. I have a picture here I'll put. Works if you only have a few but I have a lot more than that. And so I thought I'd come down and have an early lunch and watch and look around on YouTube and see if there was any video hack things which there was. We're gonna go try it. Okay guys we're gonna see if this works. So I've got my husband's cordless drill and I brought up the extra battery because I don't know how much of a charge is in this one. Okay that was the husband. And I have this little piece. There we go focus. This is a little chuck piece from one of our Dremel drills. And he's over there. She closed the door. Making faces and it's okay. Anyway so the hack I saw on YouTube was that this fits. I can't do this one-handed. It fits in here and then you can just start the floss on there and so we're gonna try it and see what happens. Okay guys so sorted and put away. I ended up creating a box for just cruel threads. There's some floss in there and yarns. These are like unnamed flosses that I was sent that don't have color number and some like cruel embroidery thread and there's some little small leftover yarn in the back. If you're watching this clip, please let me put that together. And then of course I labeled it. And then we have all of the embroidery floss which is mostly DMC. I did notice as I was putting it away there's a few other. Somebody did send me some floss that had color numbers on it but it wasn't DMC and I just went ahead and sorted it in here but the color is definitely very different than the DMC. I don't know what the brand was. I'm gonna see if I can fish through the trash. No I'm not because I took the garbage out. Well I don't know what brand it was so anyway. I'm gonna order a DMC color chart anyways and so then I can if I'm pulling floss for a chart I can make sure I pull the right color. But I have like the fur I have like zero zero to six six six in the top drawer and then this one goes up to like thirty one seventy three. This one goes all the way to the end and then there's some chronic metallics. My rainbow floss which I'm dying to use and my silk floss in the back which is perfect. And again this is a standard stair light drawer and I um all the years ago put dividers in the drawer to get six rows across um with just cardboard and packing tape. I didn't you know nothing fancy and this is probably 20 years old. I did used to have all three drawers full and then I stopped embroidering for a while and kind of used up some stuff so the bottom drawer was empty. We're full now again. So anyway so that's going to work and I'm glad it's all done and put away. Hey guys the clips that you're just watching just now it's about 20 minutes ish worth were originally filmed as part of a vlog for June of 2020 and I just thought there was so much of the content that might be interesting enough on a stand alone to give you hints and tips ideas of how you can organize maybe some things in your art room if you have like me lots of thread and floss yarn fibers um even if you don't have some of those maybe you can get an idea from watching how I am organizing those things to organize something else in your room using what you have again the dividers in the drawers for my floss it's just cardboard and packing tape and it's been that way for at least 20 years so use what you have and make it work for you it doesn't have to cost a lot of money you just have to be able to find what you've got so you can use it and create interesting fun things I'd love to see what you're doing do share it over in my facebook group a life of art and self-expression if you're a member over there if you're not the link will be down below don't forget to support the free content here on facebook and in the youtube facebook art groups by shopping in the etsy shop or using the paypal chip jar or joining patreon or something like that not only for me but for other artists that are providing free content the most important thing of course is stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys