Organize your crafts closet to keep crafting fun and stress-free.
Crafts can be an entertaining way to spend the day with your kids or they can be a creative outlet for your talents. Either way, crafts provide some balance for your busy work or school life. Keeping your craft supplies and projects organized in a special craft closet makes crafting fun and stress-free. You can set up your perfect craft closet as a rainy day project and reorganize it on a periodic basis. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Ensure that your closet has enough shelves, hooks and removable storage containers before you begin organizing it. Check that you have a working interior light in the closet so that you can properly see your crafting materials. Make all available space usable, including shelves, walls and floor space.
2. Move spillable and sharp crafting supplies, such as paint, glue, glitter, art knives, knitting needles and scissors, to a common bottom closet shelf to minimize mess and damage from dropped supplies. Line the shelves with spill-resistant paper that can be wiped clean.
3. Organize your crafts closet by hobby. Put all writing materials in cups in one area. Keep paper and stickers in folders stashed upright on shelves or tucked into plate holders mounted on the wall. Mount a paper towel holder on the wall and replace its dowel with a smaller dowel that can hold spools of ribbon and jewelry wire. Mount towel racks on the wall to hold sheets of wrapping paper or old towels for clean up.
4. Use plastic boxes, tackle boxes or jewelry boxes with dividers to store beads, shells, buttons, charms, magnets, old resistors, bits of glass or mirror, or any other small pieces you use in your crafts. Ensure that these containers have tops that fit properly and that can contain the items inside in case of a spill.
5. Utilize the closet floor space by storing all materials for a specific hobby in rolling bins or shoulder bags to take to a crafting class. Have more than one of each common item, such as glue, scissors, needles or marking pens, so that you can leave one on a common items shelf and pack the other item for crafting on-the-go.
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