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So I was setting out letters for a secret kandi project I'm working on. My plan was to spell "wuv" a bunch of times. So I had a bunch of W's, a bunch of U's, and a bunch of V's lined up... then I moved my computer, and the cord ran into them and scattered them. Relevant visual.

Also, don't you HATE it when you've finished a piece, you're going to tie it off, aaaaaand the beads slide off and scatter? gonk

Talk about the difficulties and frustrating moments of kandi-making here.

Or just now when I realized, RIGHT AT THE END, that I'd started the whole layer wrong, and if I want it to look right, I have to go back to the very beginning and redo it. gonk

the worst is making a single and it always falling always falling ugg!!!

this is all the things and more that have happened to me:


*have beads organized in an amazing and complicated pattern on the floor where I am sitting and my dog randomly decided to attack me and flings the beads to god knows where

*have beads organized in an amazing and complicated pattern on the floor where I am sitting and my bf moves our game consol controller and the cord flings the beads to god knows where

*tieing a piece and the string slips from my fingers and they all slide off the string

*tied string too tight and the string snaps and beads explode everywhere.

*make a cuff and then realized that 2 rows ago you ******** up and have to take it entirely apart.

*completed something amazing and realized you ******** up at the very begining that you can no longer reach and have to take it apart entirely again to fix it

*my dog randomy decides to attack me and trips over my bead organizer and beads go everywhere, all over the floor, and into the wrong bead spots. (this happens entirely way too much unfortunately. it makes me want to give up even having it lol)

*thinking of a way awesome super cool piece of kandi when your intoxicated from something, and then being too intoxicated to do it. lol. always messing up, putting the wrong bead on, not being able to tie the string getting side tracked and/or zone out for 2 seconds and forgetting what you were doing. lol

I was on a kandi making spree about 6 months ago (still scres me that this will happen today) And i was on my bed, im making candi , and i have this body about the side of a loaf of bread that had random sized beads in it, my dog jups up on my bed and they fall.....huuuuge ******** explosion...they were running out of my room under my door and everything like wtf.

I used to trip over my bead box all the time. D:
then I realized I could just use my bottom dresser drawer to store all my beads. It actually works really well.

If I realize I've messed up a pattern, it doesn't matter how far along I am in the process, I'll unravel the whole thing to fix it. I'm just too OCD to let that go. I've only lost all the beads on a string maybe twice; I usually let the strung beads rest on a table or in my lap so even if I drop the string they'll mostly stay in place. And I've never had string break from being tied too tightly. Maybe it's because I use the fabric-covered elastic most of the time? As for those complicated patterns, I always plan things out on paper or my comp, so it's not a big deal if the beads get mixed up in the middle of the process.


The worst for me was a little over a year ago, actually. I was moving out of my apartment, and work had been crazy so I'd put everything off until the last minute. I had to be out by midnight or the landlord was saying I'd have to pay at least part of the next month's rent (stupid, since they couldn't immediately rent it out anyway, so what difference would a few hours make?). 11 PM, my bead box (as in a huge box full of smaller bead containers, only a couple of them properly sealed) was the last thing that needed carried out. Mind you, I'm really into crafting and jewelry-making, so this wasn't just pony beads and the like, but Czech glass, Austrian crystals, seed beads, all sorts of things.

So I have the very last box in hand and decide I don't want to come back downstairs just to turn out the lights, so I balance the box precariously on one shoulder as I turn out the lights, trip over the rug as I head for the door, the box goes flying, and suddenly I have thousands of beads everywhere. I wound up scooping them up as best I could with a cup someone had left in the hallway and just pouring them back into the box. I still haven't completely sorted through them all. I just have a tupperware container holding the haphazard mix until I need something.