Shelly Hickox Apothecary Cabinet

Shelly Hickox is one of my favourite die cutters out there - she has so much talent! And this is a great way of using dies to create a Crafty Storage unit.

I love it!

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Tracy's studio

Check Tracy's studio here.

I love all those punches so neatly displayed.

And her stamping area.Very organized.

Tim Holtz ideas

This retro style spinner is a a Ranger product. Tim Holtz used it to hold the new ink blending tools, each applicator was destined for a shade of inks and a little colored sticker on the top indicated which one (if you click on the photo you will barely see the sticker on the applicators).


The Cropper Hopper Tim Holtz carry case for embossing powders properly decorated with his new acrylic tiles called fragments.


Those two carry cases contain what they were designed for. The one on the left holds the distress inkpads, the one on the right has inside the alcohol inks.


This is not a storage idea but an essential way to know what inks, paint or paper you have got and how they look once applied and dried. Each product range is in a separate ball chain.

Keesha Urback-Winn storage idea

Keesha Urback-Winn paint storage idea in her own words:

Although I still have a lot to do to get my Craft Room “up to snuff” (a constant ongoing process I might add), I thought your Bloggers may benefit from this idea for storing small paints (or anything else their heart desires). Floor and counter space is more important to me than wall space, so I wanted to come up with some sort of wall storage component that was relatively inexpensive, minimum in size, and easy to install.

While shopping at Target, I noticed they had these cutlery trays on sale (50% off). For about $5 each, I thought they would work perfect to hang on the wall to store my small jars of paint; not to mention the fact that they already had a million holes on the bottom of the tray which would make nailing them to the wall a breeze!

Initially, I purchased the cutlery trays that had multiple silverware compartments, but after bringing them home, I discovered the compartments (shelves) were not tall enough to hold my paints, so I opted for the single drawer style instead and stacked the paints one on top of the other. I actually ended up keeping the other trays and plan to hang them up to use for embossing powders!

This system works great for me because everything is in plain view, yet not eating up my counter/floor space – no more having to open and close every 12x12 plastic drawer using my old storage system to find just the right color. I keep a small step stool in my Craft Room, so reaching the paints on the wall isn’t a problem. I bought all of the available trays at my local Target and even had my mom buy the last one at her store. I still have more paint and waiting for more of these trays to be for sale (hopefully they will)! If not, I’ll just have to conjure up some other “idea”.


You can read more about Keesha here.