No Photo, No Progress

Alas, last night was Rip It All Out night in Chilly Hollow. I tried doing my Half Tony stitch with one ply on the lower skirt of the Rabbit Geisha, didn't like it, ripped it out, looked at the two ply area I'd done and realized I'd made a mistake in the count and ripped all that out, too.

I've started the skirt again, trying my best with a laying tool to keep the two plies of Mandarin floss from twisting.  It eventually will look very nice but it is slow going.  Oh, well, there are always nights when I won't get much done.  I didn't even get any more of the blue background done, although I am eager to see how the background will change the face of the rabbit, so we'll just have to wait a bit longer to see progress.

Fortunately, this lack of progress isn't catching.  Ruth Schmuff has gotten a lot done on her purse canvas.  This is a class she's teaching at her shop, Beadecked and Beadazzled.  I like how the various elements are coming together.  It's not easy to do ribbon flowers and not have them overwhelm the leaves and stems and insects but she is doing this well.
http://www.tistheseason.org/blog/2009/09/zinnias.html

I've also come across what seems to be a great bead storage system.  You can see a nice photo here but there is no identification as to who makes this.  To be fair, the writer of this blog has been quite ill and I'm sure identification was the last thing on her mind.
http://worldembroideries.blogspot.com/2009/09/pretty-flowers.html

A little Googling has found something that might be the square bead tubes in boxes system.  Any beaders out there know?  Again, there is no manufacturer information or online purchase options.
http://www.bonitabead.biz/KnowledgeCntr/Details/SeedBeadStorage.html

Nothing like a good mystery to get Tuesday underway!

UPDATE:  Mystery solved?  The "master box #1150-09" about half way down the page with the smaller boxes listed underneath sure looks like this system, except for the lids.
http://www.craftamerica.com/storage_containers_page_3.htm

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