Getting ready for a  few days off,   heading south for some warm weather.  I have to pack and think of all the great beading things I must take, skip the beads as I always have a bag of those, the key is not to take more than realistic.  That does always seem to be a problem, but extra beads are always okay.  I just love my traveling bead board by bead buddy it has a beading mat in it and you put beads,scissors half  done projects in and close the cover and it folds up to the size of a small laptop.  Once on the plane you can put down the little tray table open up the bead buddy top and everything is  on the tray table, if you have to put it away quick and just close the cover.  I also have this neat little sticky pad ( I think its made by BEADSMITH .  I use this on my beading board.  If you pour your beads on it they stick, you can easily pick them up but if you hit a bump or somebody touch's your stuff they don't spill all over the place.  Its a cool little contraption if it gets dirty you just wash it off and the sticky returns.  One more travel item is a beader's mini travel kit, its also made by BEADSMITH.  I wouldn't want to use the tools for my everyday tools but it sure works great for traveling, The kit comes in  a plastic box it has a mini bead board, round nose, flat nose and cutters, it also has a great little cutter which works well with fireline.  Its this scissor like contraption that has a razor clipper end to it.  Well those are my fit in my carry on travel friends, stuck at the airport out it comes watching a movie on the plane out it comes in a hotel or camp out it comes I call it my traveling bead kit.  I just love all the items in this kit. It makes traveling and beading great companions. Wonder if anybody out their also travels and has any idea's of things they take