Mon, Feb 20 2006

Storing Crafty Things

I visited a Michaels arts and crafts store this past weekend to check out the sale items. I was a little disappointed in the lack of variety of rubber stamps, but I suppose they realize there are many other places we can all find those. The stickers were on sale and I took the opportunity to stock up on those. But The big beauties were the floral stems. I make my own artificial arrangements each season, so I add to my stash of flowers now and then so I can have a greater variety to pull from when I get ready to create. The problem now is that our back storage room is starting to look like a very disorganized retail storeroom. I'm going to have to come up with some way to store the things so that I can find them without digging through bags and boxes. I need something like a rack of ascending rings that I can poke the floral stems into for easy access.

I suppose the next serious craft project really ought to be a storage project, which is difficult for me. I'm great at imagining and creating, but I'm not good at organizing. I watch all the shows on getting things organized, but one still needs a place in which to put these organized items. A lot of what they do on the shows is stack things in boxes. Floral stems don't lend themselves well to boxes and a rack of some sort is going to take up a lot more room than a set of boxes on shelves. This will be an interesting challenge.



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