Keep your crafting materials under care.
Whether you are a serious crafter or simply enjoy an occasional art project, adequate craft storage can help to cut the clutter and make your work space more organized. Instead of stuffing papers, fabrics, yarn, paint brushes and more into desk drawers or throwing items into closets, designate a specific area of the house for craft supplies and choose from a variety of organizational options. Create your own storage containers or choose ones that work for your supplies from a storage/organization retailer. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Create Your Own Craft Storage
1. Set up a central work space or station. Since you will organize your craft storage around this work station, it is important to start in the center. Use a desk, stainless steel table or even a small kitchen table as your primary station.
2. Gather together fabric-lined baskets or bins for small crafting items, such as beads, sequins or buttons. As a low cost option, choose stackable plastic ware containers with lids. Label each container, bin or basket with a piece of masking tape and permanent marker.
3. Use a multi-tiered basket for mid-sized crafting items and materials, such as large stampers, ink pads or large markers.
4. Store spools of thread, yarn or ribbon on a long wooden dowel attached to a sturdy wooden base. Insert the dowel through the hole in the center of the thread, yarn or ribbon.
5. Use rubber storage bins with cardboard or plastic dividers to store large materials, such as long blocks of clay, pen sets or wooden blocks. Label the outside of each bin. Write the contents on a decorative piece of crafting paper and tape it to the side or top of the bins.
6. Set up wall shelves near your storage area to organize paints. Attach basic, flat wooden shelving to the wall or use a spice rack as a holder.
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