I’ve been selling Hama Beads for a very long time now; when I started there was only one other place online to buy them and you had to print off an order form and send it to them. We’d been thoroughly enjoying playing with them for a lot longer than that; the reason I started to sell them was because I found them such an amazing toy for settling my thoroughly manic daughter (Fran) down to something for more than 30 seconds at a time.
Frankly, given we are a house full of OCD Asperger-y people with a Hama fetish, the most surprising thing is that it has taken till today to do this.
Oh how I have lusted after proper Hama Bead storage, that age old problem that bothered me and my lovely friends for long nights while we sat patiently sorting bead colours out by hand… (really, we did.)
I can tell you, being on the lower end of the family OCD spectrum, that those boxes are not in code order, nor do we have every colour of Hama Bead available. I can also say with a fair degree of certainty, that when Max comes home, they will be rearranged with spaces for missing colours 😆
The biggest problem with beading is you end up with these.
Frankly, I am perfectly capable of sorting these out and I need to be saved from myself.. so… would you like them instead?
Here’s the deal:-
Guess the weight of the tub of beads and let me know (in grams) in the comments.
If you have a storage idea for Hama, leave another comment with that and a link to a photo of it if you wish 😆
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The prize is this tub full of beads, some boards and 5 packs of individual colours of your choice. (There may be included rabbit food, I can’t promise the beads are uncontaminated!)
If you have a blog and you’d like to review some Hama for free like these bloggers did then let me know in a comment and leave a link to your blog and you might just get the chance!
Competition is open to UK and will close on 14th March at midnight.
I store my hama beads in plastic bottles!! 🙂
Ooh, that sounds arty!
I knew there would be a good reason to get those tiny boxes (have been lustfully eyeing them up for a while). Mixed up hama beads I think is the main reason that I have to drag my children to do beading. It’s such a pain in the a*** to do blocks of colour when you have to sift through handfuls of the stuff. Just need to pursuade the husband now…(or just to do it and present him with the final product :)?)
My guess is 700g… I’m useless at this kind of thing! And we would love the chance to review some Hama beads. My son is 4 and he was looking at them last time we went to our local craft shop, I think he’d really enjoy it.
665 grams?? Total guess! (I read your blog but do not post)
Oh the hama bead years. *sigh* 🙂 We’ve been hama beading since you started selling them ( remember our yahoo group?) and the fetish has lasted a long time. Even grown adults here are known to get them out and have a go 🙂
I’d forgotten the group! Oh, happy days 🙂
Coincidentally, I have just spent two evenings in the last week sorting our fairly small collection of Hama beads into colour order too and lovely though that tub looks, I don’t want to sort it either! 🙂
I have a slight addiction to Really Useful Boxes and have just reorganised all our toy/game storage with lots of rainbow coloured boxes. I went for these trays for sorting because it’s big enough for the beads we have: http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/uk/html/onlineshop/rub/aTrayHobby.php but I know that it could just get knocked over so easily so individual locked boxes look like a much better idea after all that sorting! 🙂
Oh wow I love those little boxes! I have a similar OCD style problem, however with me I make jewellery. My four year old niece recently had a bit of an accident with a box of seed beads but with a little one as well I haven’t had time to sort them back into colour order. The box has consequently been shut out of sight! I can’t guess the weight of your Hama beads because I have absolutely no spatial awareness – I just wanted to say thanks for making me feel less of a freak 😉
The boxes the Hama was in are now moving up to my craft desk :))
I think that the tub weighs 681g.
I can’t really suggest a better system than the one you have as it is very similar to the way I store the beads for my jewellery making (very dusty at the moment as I haven’t done any for ages).
We would love to review Hama over at my blog http://redrosemummy.blogspot.com/ I’ve been a bit quiet on there lately but my niece is desperate for a ‘new craft’ and I think she would really enjoy trying this.
650? Quietly waiting for review opportunity on my crafty blog….. X
Freddy’s not even 2 yet and he loves Hama beads, it’s amazing how he sits and concentrates as he makes coasters for relatives. Anyhow we guess 920g and we’d love to review beads, we don’t have a blog but I do regularly review on Ciao, Dooyoo and sometimes Amazon.
Loving the storage 🙂 I guess 1022g! Not that we need any more hama beads but they never seem to grow out of them 😉
I had to link this on facebook to bring it to the attention of my friend who is equally OCD when it comes to Hama beads.
We love hama here as well.
My guess is 777gms.
Loving the storage system. 🙂
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My guess is 1231g. Probably way out, but my little girl was really into Hama beads, now we“re away from home and don’t have any with us, it would be lovely to be able to have some for her.
Oh, yes, and I’d love the chance to review some Hama beads on my blog.