The Ultimate Diamond Art FAQ with Links
(A continuing series of excerpts from my Amazon Kindle Book)
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Sometimes, we want to work on our diamond painting somewhere else, either by choice or by necessity. This could be somewhere else in the house, out on the patio, or an airport, motel, a camping trip, or even the hospital emergency room. Or we just get tired of working in the same area and want to move to another spot for a while, anywhere else!
I have three locations where I work on projects. Is there an easy way to carry my tools back-and-forth to each one?
I have a similar situation and use this small tool caddy with a handle so that I can carry my tools back and forth to my tiny office, where I work on small handheld items due to lack of space, or to my craft room workspace where I work on large canvases. This clear caddy allows me to find small stuff that can get lost in an opaque one.
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Or you can decorate your own tote caddy from one of these diamond art kits:
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I’d like to be able to move my canvas to another part of the house when the mood strikes without too much of a hassle. Any ideas?
For relatively small diamond paintings, up to 30 cm x 40 cm, I use a bamboo serving tray set that fits my canvases nicely and acts as a portable table when I’m in my tiny office. The smallest tray holds 20 cm x 20 cm and fits into an under-desk basket shelf when I need to quickly clean up. The middle size is good for 20 cm x 30 cm, and it’s also in my under-desk basket shelf. The large one holds a 30 cm x 40 cm canvas. At one point in time, I had two different works in progress at the same time, but the trays stack inside each other and fit in my desk basket. Having handles on the trays allows me to move into the living room if I’d like, or into my office while I’m waiting for phone calls at work.
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How can we carry our projects with us to do when we travel or at work or somewhere other than home?
Numerous diamond painting travel bags exist, so see if any of these fit your needs. It depends on the size of the project you want to work on away from home, and what you are using for your drill storage system. For little handheld projects and mini-canvases, I use this small 8.5 x 5 x 2 plastic storage box that holds all my pen tools, over a dozen tic-tac style boxes of drills, plus quite a few keychains, bookmarks or magnet blanks, and a teensy little .5 oz vial of watered down Mod Podge for sealing while I’m sitting at the airport or at the hospital. It’s small enough to slip into my emergency room tote bag with other items to alleviate the boredom of sitting around for untold hours. And I have several similarly stocked boxes (sans blanks and Mod Podge) in all my working locations, in case I forget to bring something with me when I change locations.
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Depending on the size of your project, this bag can carry all your paraphernalia. And up to 180 jars of colors. See Drill Storage after Kitting Down for an even larger bag that I use.
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For carrying the canvas, an artist’s portfolio case would be appropriate for keeping it flat. They also come in many sizes, and some with pockets for tossing your color containers and tools into.
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I have been doing diamond art for over 10 years. My book was published under my pen name. You can contact me through my blog here at https://ei-kan.blogspot.com if you have any additional questions to add to this section or to notify me of any dead links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualified purchases. This book is available in its entirety on Amazon Kindle and there are some discount coupon codes for up to 15% off your purchases at select websites near the end of it And yes, I earn a few pennies from a few other sites mentioned as well, but not all.
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