So here we are, a few zoomed out shots first:
The fold out table is where my 4 year old likes to sit and play with me, I had to give her a little space of her own otherwise she was all over me and I couldnt get a single thing done! I gave her my old bright green paper trimmer too, she loves that thing, and the blade isnt even a sharp blade, just a little pointy triangle that barely even cuts paper, so shes safe...lol
First close up, my flower drawer...I used to store my flowers in mini sterilite drawers but I outgrew those the day I stuffed my flowers inside...lol. So this was a better solution for me. These cubes are from Michaels craft store, this particular drawer unit has two large drawers with dividers (kinda like sock drawer dividers). I May buy another cube unit with three drawers and use one of those instead, because the dividers in this dont go the full depth and I dont NEED the full depth anyway...but thats for another day when I have more money.
Here youre seeing my makeshift die cutting station. I have 4 stacks of mini sterilite drawers acting as my shelf base, they actually are quite sturdy, I was surprised! Across the top of that is just a plain old cheap white laminate shelf board that is meant to be suspended on metal repositionable shelf brackets, but the brackets were removed from the wall because they looked so ugly. I hate those tracks on the wall... So anyway, I left a gap in the middle rather than buying more drawer units so that I can always keep my cricut out but its never in the way. I just slide it out when I need to use it. One of the drawers in the sterilite containers has all of my cricut cartridges and keypads, I only have like 7 total so they all fit nicely in one little drawer. I tossed all of the rest of the packaging and the instruction booklets are tucked away in the back of a cabinet. On the shelf I keep my cuttlebug and the green tin holds my cutting plates, my dies and my embossing folders. Its a rather deep tin and I dont own very many dies so it fits nicely inside. My nestabilities dies are all in a metal cd case sized tin inside there also. Oh and those binders store my studio g stamps and inkadinkado mini sets.
Next up is an updated picture of my ribbon storage. Same set up, more permanent and stable. I used to keep my rack on a sheet of pegboard and they were suspended on hooks, but they werent permanent. I have since removed the pegboard and mounted these in the studs so that If I do decide to put heavier items in the racks they wont fall off the wall. I sorta have them arranged by color here, but it gets messed up sometimes...lol. My unspooled ribbon is all on little alligator clips that I found at Michaels craft store, but Michaels doesnt sell them anymore and I had to start buying the ones from JoAnns in the beading section.
Oh and do you see my rockin stamp pad/cd case rack?? My DAD made that for me!! As you can see my cd cases dont all fit in there, but I love it anyway!
Next up, you see those green tins on the ledge by the cases? Those are cheap dollar store planters, and I love them. I store my tools, adhesives, prisma coloring mediums and dimensional foam dots in those planters. It makes clean up super easy too! And the advantage of using my ledge for storage is that I have more room to mess up my counters...LOL
And for fun, here is a close up of the curtain I made to hide the underneath JUNK...lol. I just attatched velcro to the top edge of the curtain and the underside of the cabinet, so when I need to dig around in there I just tear it down. And that way I didnt need to figure out any special hardware for the curtain! Yippeee!
Thanks for checkin out my digs!! If you have your own crafty space posted then please please link me to yours, I would love to see where YOU craft!!
