Help on choosing craft storage
Need to tidy up your craft room or cupboard and don't know where to start. Keeping a neat and tidy craft room is essential. A well organized craft room can give you hours of enjoyment. Nothing is more frustrating that wanting to do that cross stitch kit or that knitting pattern and not being able to find all the supplies because your craft room is in a mess. There are so many different types of craft storage available and below are a few tips to help you choose.
Contents
- What Storage Should I Choose?
- Check These Few Things First
- Deluxe Carousel Organiser
- Small Carousel Organiser
- Ultimate Stacker
- Storage Items Available from Magic Lady Crafts
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What Storage Should I Choose?
As a crafter you probably have bits and pieces all over your workshop. If you are really lucky the kids would have left home and you have a room to store all your craft items. If you are not so lucky and have to hide it all in a cupboard but want all your items to hand storage organisers are essentialThere are many craft storage solutions. Scrappers and Card Makers can buy folders and boxes to keep scrapbooking papers, embellishments and cards in so they don't get ripped or screwed up. Jewellery makers can buy bead towers and containers with many sections for the beads. If you are a knitter you would nee storage to keep all your wool, pattern, and needles.
A lot of craft storage these days is designed to be mobile as crafting has become a social event and there are lots of craft clubs all over the country. Mobile storage is also helpful if you are a professional and attend a lot of fairs.
Craft storage can be very expensive if not approached in the correct way especially if you have a lot to store. Before going out and buying loads of craft boxes that you are never going to use.
Check These Few Things First
1. Are the craft items you are storing all the same size or lots of different sizes.2. Have you got a lot of space or do you need to use as little space as possible.
3. Organise your craft so the items you use regularly are easy to access
Clear organisers are great because you can always see the contents without opening the box but if they are not clear always remember to label there is nothing more infuriating than having to keep opening storage boxes to find that one item
Below I have listed a few that might be useful to you and don't take up to much space on your desk top and can also be mobile.
Deluxe Carousel Organiser
This craft carousel holds 60 individual clear polypropylene cups with tethered lidsFive layers high, mounted on a lazy susan turntable
Only a 10" footprint on your craft table
Excellent for beaders, scrapbookers, fly tiers and more
Fully Assembled
If you have a mountain of small idividual items to organize-beads, embellishments, jewelry supplies, etc., this is your organizer-60 individual clear poly cups with snap tight tethered lids (Each Cup is 2 1/2" round X 7/8" deep). You can store and organize lots of different items in this tried and true organizer- it has been out for years and is featured in many beading magazines and on TV. Excellent gift for that crafty person who needs to organize. Use with our Tidy Tray item #1612. Comes fully assembled. Only the organizer-no others item included.
R.R.P 21.99 our price £18.99 Buy now
Small Carousel Organiser
Tidy up your craft space with New Phase Organisers. No more hassle of looking for your craft supplies. Beads, bobbins, glitter, powders, sequins, eyelets, snaps and more, are right where you can see them in these wonderful clear containers! Made of sturdy plastic, these containers will hold up to years of crafting! Carousel 12 Slot Black- 12 clear, polypropylene, round containers (2.5" diameter and 7/8" deep) fit easily into slots around a circular plastic base. Base has a deep triangular center basin for holding taller items. Rivets included for stacking more than one together.R.R.P £7.99 Our Price £4.99 Buy Now
Ultimate Stacker
The Ultimate Stacker from Tidy Crafts Holds Everything from pins and needles to snaps, brads, beads, buttons...nuts and bolts to paper clips and push pins, tackle to sequins and jewelry. Keep all the small stuff in your life organized in 5 durable layers- 8 compartments per layer. When you are ready to clean up and go, just fit the layers over the hollow center post, put your tools in the hollow, and lock all together with the locking cap. 7''x7''x6'' Blue hexagon.R.R.P £11.99 Our Price £8.99 Buy Now
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Noelyne wrote...
I had no idea there were so many products available for storing crafts. Fantastic.
Noelyne
Posted September 04, 2008
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
My craft stuff is all over the place. One of these days I'll get it organized.
Lizzy
Posted August 04, 2008
LindaJM wrote...
Very cool stuff. I don't have a craft room so I can't vote in your poll.
Posted August 04, 2008
LindaJM wrote...
Very cool stuff. I don't have a craft room so I can't vote in your poll.
Posted August 04, 2008
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Sarah wrote
This is a great lense and some great storage ideas really love the deluxe carousel have brought two of these now and it has really tidied up my craft area. They are also great for when I do craft fairs.
Posted July 30, 2008
by Magic-Lady
Hi my name is Sandie
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