3 posts tagged “storage”

Until today my ribbons have been stored in two cardboard drawers stacked on a chest.  The drawers are difficult to pull out, harder to push back in and the ribbons were all jumbled up inside.

I was pottering around on the net looking for a soution to my ribbon storage woes and saw "it".  It looked like one of my embroidery bobbin boxes - enough like one to inspire a digging out of such a box from the back cupboard.  Over the course of the day it has become:

Ribbon Storage!

A pretty pink box that I had set aside has all the really wide ribbons in it along with the odds and ends which are too small to wind around a bobbin.  All the fibres will be stored in this too.  It's a pretty pathetic collection, but at least I can see what I have and it might just get used.

Went to Mum and Dad's last night and dad was showing off the shelves he's put in the laundry for mum.

"Shelves in the laundry?  Happy thought, indeed" (10 points if you pick the quotation :P)

They are exactly what I'm looking for!  A couple of those little numbers at the back of the craft desk and I will be set for life.  Can't wait to get my hands on them.

The Clean Up The Craft Room Project is well underway and if all goes well, I should be able to get into some scrapbooking in a week or so.  As the room as been slowly emptied and cleared of clutter a few things have become apparent.  I have a huge craft room - I think it's about 10 feet by 12 feet.  No joke.  I have masses of workspace - well at least I will by the time the desks are cleared properly.  Space is seriously NOT a problem.  But storage is.  My Bazzill collection is under control.  Dad made me this groovy little box about 18 months ago and it works like a charm.  Stamps are sorted and I have a place for stickers/punches/adhesives/tools and all the doodads like an embossing gun that don't really fit anyplace else.  Beyond that: nada.  Everything is sort of stacked.  Or boxed in shoe boxes where I can't see it.  If I can't see it, I don't use it and then I buy more stuff, which I have no place to put so it gets shoved in a box.  Then I can't see it so I don't use it and I buy more stuff and...

The other thing is that while I might have been blessed with many things - a wonderful husband and two delightful-when-they-are-not-bickering children, I don't have a decorative bone in my body.  The craft room doesn't and never has looked interesting.  Or beguiling.  Or even just pretty.  Rather a lot like my scrapbook pages really.  Of all the things I could have had in life, a hint of the interior designer is the bit I really covet. 

BTW if anyone has a good idea about how to store, arrange and organise photo albums...real ones, not digital ones, I'd be really glad to hear them.