My Craft Space

Thought that I would post a few pictures of my new crafting space as it is reasonably tidy at the moment! (Click on the pictures if you would like to enlarge them.) I finally have the furniture that I was after. The stack of drawers I already posted about here.
I now have this lovely new table. It's sold as an office meeting table, and is nice and sturdy. The legs fold up underneath, which means that if necessary it can be cleared out of the room for parties, and can also double up as an extra table for barbeques etc. The two stacks of plastic drawers fit nicely underneath - they are my original craft storage, and at the time I was wondering if I really needed two!
The 12x12 tote that you can see underneath the table between the chair and the filing cabinet houses all of my 12 x 12 paper/card - don't have much of that at the moment! I have a lot of A4 size though, and that is in the filing cabinet in hanging folders. Really pleased with that - so much easier to find what I want, and put it back again afterwards. And all away out of the dust. My chair must be about 15 years old now, and is still comfy!

The last picture shows my area (bottom right of the picture) in relation to the room. This is our family room. I like to be in here, and not shut away in a separate room or shed. I'm right where my youngest is with all her toys so easy to craft and keep an eye on her. In the evening I can craft and be sociable with people watching tv etc. And a nice view of the garden. And as we have another room which is our sitting room, I don't have to put things away for visitors.

I am working on how to store my SU stamps. At the moment I only have a few sets, and they are stood up like books in a shoebox on top of the filing cabinet. But something tells me that I need to plan for more!!

Update on Punch Storage

In April, I posted a picture of my punch storage and said that I was wanting a drawer system. Originally when I looked at these Storage4Crafts drawers, I dismissed them, because the two drawer sizes available were too shallow to accomodate all of my punches. But on a return visit to the site, I discovered that they have added a new drawer size, and it perfectly accommodates my larger punches. So I now have a lovely tower of drawers, with three depth sizes. You can choose your own selection of sizes, and arrange the drawers in any order you wish.
I have put the punches at the bottom because of the weight. Stamps towards the top in the 1" drawers, and plenty of drawers left over for pads, powders, stickles pots, and other bits and pieces. Haven't finished filling them up yet. AT 14" wide they fit just nicely in a gap that wasn't much use for anything else. I will be putting labels on the tops of the handles - eventually. For now I use guesswork - sometimes more successfully than others!
Now to work on paper and card storage. . . . .

Storing Punches

Michelle has a post here where she shows her punch storage, and asks for photos of other people's storage - so here is mine - I even resisted the urge to tidy it up before I took the photo. It was ok when there was only one layer of punches, but now there are two, and in some places three layers, it is next to useless. Too much time spent rummaging, and not good for the punches either. I know what I would like to do, but haven't found or got around to looking harder for what I want, which is some kind of drawer system with shallow drawers where there would be enough height for one layer of punches. Bearing in mind that I am in the UK . . . . any suggestions?